Marandahir
Crown-Forester (he/him)
When I was a kid, you could get comics in the grocery store checkout aisle, in airport terminals, and in drug stores. Mom would frequently throw one in with the groceries. By the time I started college, the only places you could buy them were specialty stores...so nobody bought them except hobbyists.
Odd. I CHOOSE to go to a specialty store to support them, but I don't know a single Barnes & Nobles without a comics/manga section. Granted, there it's the trade paperbacks and hardcovers only, not the staple-bound single issues, but the books of my favourite comics fit better together on a shelf then a stack of flimsy issues. I still get the issues once in a while, but usually willing to wait for the compilation months later.