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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Urriak Uruk" data-source="post: 7975050" data-attributes="member: 7015558">Yeah I was confused by that comparison too... like I doubt Jim Zub's comic sell in the millions (actually I don't just doubt, I know they don't) so the comparison (and his advice) didn't make a lot of sense.Frankly I don't think comic sales declining has much to do with the writing, or the marketing, or the treatment of fans at all... it's just that less and less people are interested in buying a small issue for $4, and waiting for a drip-drip-drip of new issues every month or so.I'm someone who does buy a paperback of 5 collected issues, and likes them, but their biggest problem is that there is no clear "jumping on" point for people to just pick on up and read.If they really wanted to replicated D&D books publishing success, they would stop publishing single issues and instead release more of a graphic novel for a character every year. This actually wouldn't be hard; each character, say Batman, gets their book in January, then the Flash in February, the Justice League in March, and so-on for the year until we are back for the next Batman book in January.That way the writer/illustrator of Batman has the entire year to write a story, no single issues, that is contained and not as episodic, or as reliant on the previous issue. It also gives the publisher way more time to market a whole story as opposed to a single issue, and the fans of a particular character can save their money to pick up the Batman book every year. You can even sell limited edition hard covers for collecters.My two-cents.</blockquote>

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