| Posted: September 13 2008 at 6:56pm | IP Logged | 2
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That's my feeling. It doesn't seem as if the library would be able to satisfy
everyone's demand. Libraries, generally, wouldn't have more than a few
copies, at most, of each title available.
I've gotten under the impression that the readers who don't know "classic" comics just don't know what they're missing, therefore there is no demand.
The Companies keep talking about "being in competition" with video games and movies and the like.
Why is it a competition? That's a defeatist attitude right off. NOTHING is going to compete with video games in a gamer's mind. Just as nothing will compete with movies in a movie-lovers mind. Or STAR WARS in a Jedi-dork's mind.
You're not convincing those people comics are better than what they pander to and spend their money on. Nobody is yanking the controller out of a Grand Theft Auto zombie's mitts.
No, the Companies need to accept their nature, particularly with superhero comics starring icons...they are specifically for, about, and predicated on the Ideal Reader. This Reader needs stimulation the Companies can provide. the Companies are not competing, they are completing a circuit between This Type of Reader and themselves. The Reader loves the characters, the adventures, the universe, and the stories, primarily because, get this: they've never seen them before.
The mystery is solved. These characters and these story formulas within superhero comics survived all these decades, why? Again, because there was always Readers still excited about the formula.
That's the beauty of comics: naivety. The good kind we all had.
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