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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Whizbang Dustyboots" data-source="post: 9463187" data-attributes="member: 11760">There's so much to talk about with the comics industry -- all the time -- that we could and maybe should have a full time thread in Geek Talk about it.It's bizarre that a business as big as it still is tends to have people running the business end of things who don't seem to take it seriously or really want it to succeed, but since everyone else just wants to focus on creating, selling or consuming comics, you mostly just end up with a bunch of jerks in charge. And even folks who seem to have a good head on their shoulders, like Jim Lee, mostly know just one end of the business (creating comics) which doesn't give them all the information they'd need to fully run a company that also has to worry about distribution and managing the health of the industry as a whole.Ideally, places like DC and Marvel and the distribution companies would have people who came up on the creative side working alongside people with experience in the retail end working alongside people with lots of distribution experience and all of whom would have a demonstrated interest in everyone thriving. But that kind of holistic thinking has never been the norm, throughout the modern industry's nearly 100 year history.</blockquote>