D&D General Some comic makers would kill for D&Ds numbers and demographic.

[jayoungr]

Jim Zub ia literally the guy writing those right now?

Good to know. I don't follow comics, except Knights of the Dinner Table.

 

[Parmandur]

Good to know. I don't follow comics, except Knights of the Dinner Table.

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[gyor]

There used to be D&D comics back in the day. Bring those back?

They still make D&D comics, I have one with Minsc and Boo, the comic book version of Baldur's Gate: Descent into Avernus.

 

[Tonguez]

Comics are a visual medium and thus now compete with the more ubiquitous media of Internet, games and movies.

DnD is a social medium and comics dont really have a way to emulate that except by going online and interactive - which again means a decline in paper sales.

Comics need to try and get relevance as Art and Literature rather than ‘comic’ entertainment

 

[gyor]

What comics need to do is treat their fans with respect, go back to being actual fun, and start marketing towards comic fans. The stuff that made comics successful for decades and provided the foundation the multi-million dollar movie franchises were built upon.

 

[teitan]

Jim Zub ia literally the guy writing those right now?

Yes he is. It's currently an Avernus tie in series but they do a storyline tying to Baldur's Gate and the featured overall storyline every year. Minsc and Boo! They're pretty good and well drawn. There are also Pathfinder comics.

 

[teitan]

What comics need to do is treat their fans with respect, go back to being actual fun, and start marketing towards comic fans. The stuff that made comics successful for decades and provided the foundation the multi-million dollar movie franchises were built upon.

This and to remember that each issue is a customer's first issue and tell complete stories in single issues instead of each issue being part _ of 6. Relaunching titles every year doesn't help. The DC continuity reboots every four years needs to stop. Those are literally the practices killing the industry and the monthlies are treated like loss leaders. They want Manga numbers but don't get why Manga sells so well, being cheap, thick volumes and not 128 page 17-30 dollar books.

 

[Shiroiken]

Comics are a limited medium, competing against way more advanced forms of entertainment. With the internet and on demand tv/movies, it's hard to consider comics as a primary form of entertainment, as opposed to just a decade or two ago, where comics were one of the few always available forms of entertainment. While the MCU is strong, a single movie probably makes more than the entire comics industry does in a year.

 

[Bitbrain]

As a DC Ape, I blame Dan Didio.

 

[Morrus]

Jim Zub posted about how some comic book folk would kill for D&D numbers.

I don't think it's a fair comparison. If WotC published a dozen new 32-page D&D books every single week, I'm sure it would drastically affect the sales figures of individual books. Comic books are just a different model.