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Message: <blockquote data-quote="WayneLigon" data-source="post: 3486326" data-attributes="member: 3649">Movie-going does not track into other genres. Lately, comic book movies have been big business. They get tens of millions of dollars in marketing, all-pervasive vertical product spin-offs and the like. You'd think that with tens of millions of people paying to see Spider-Man, X-Men, Batman Begins and the like that there would be resultant comics sales? It hasn't happened, not even a blip on the retail radar. As far as those tens of millions of people are concerned, comics don't even exist in their world. Comics orders still track at around a mere 150,000 units for the biggest best selling blobkbuster titles, numbers that would have spelled cancellation without a second thought 20 years ago.Sometimes there just is no correlation. I thought the success of LOTR would bring many more midieval-ish fantasy movies into the marketplace. Instead, we got two.</blockquote>