A small modification
To my stance that comics movies don't sell comics (a long-held and not popular opinion in the age of the Spider-Man and X-Men cinematic outings.)
MacGuffin: Moving the Sales Needle
Comics themed movies sell comic BOOKS and not monthly comics. Movies help move those big, fat collections off of the shelves. Non comics-readers don't want to bother with having to go to a store four or six or more times to get a story. They want it in one package and they want to take it home and read it. Or to the beach or whatever.
I'm wondering if comics companies will get that through their skulls. People want books. Books. Monthlies service a shrinking market. If people want a Superman fix, they'll learn to buy thicker collections (assuming the price point on those can be made reasonable--a trick that comics companies have had with original content for some time.)
Spotted courtesy of The Beat (link's on the sidebar, people.)
Comments
"long-hel and not popular opinion"
She never was all that popular, was she?
Bet you're glad I'm reading this! What would you do without me?
Posted by: Kurt Werle | May 30, 2006 10:13 AM
You must really be bored, Kurt. Don't you have stuff to code or something?
Posted by: Matt M. | May 30, 2006 10:26 AM
It's morning, and it takes about 3 minutes for an email message to load [or fail to load]. So, yeah, I have time.
Posted by: Kurt Werle | May 31, 2006 08:14 AM