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<blockquote data-quote="DEFCON 1" data-source="post: 7668669" data-attributes="member: 7006">I would actually disagree with you here, Brian.&nbsp; Reason being... in the timeline of comic book history, it was the mid 1980s that saw the largest &quot;explosion&quot; of comic sales.&nbsp; More kids began reading more books, collecting comics books became a &quot;money-making&quot; hobby of collecting and saving for eventual resale (which explains why so many major lines had new #1s with like five or six different cover), and it coincided with the rise of the nerd and geek set.What we are seeing currently is *that* group of kids (of which I would include myself) now in the &quot;Adults&quot; age bracket of being flush with cash from careers, having families etc. etc. etc.&nbsp; So I think even if comic books themselves were to die right now... the movies will continue to be profitable so long as they continue to use the popularity and tropes of the '80s comic boom that we were all reading, and us '80s and early '90s kids are still the target audience willing to spend the money to go see the films.&nbsp; These Marvel and DC movies could continue to be profitable through the 2020s I'd be willing to bet, because all of us Gen Xers would still get the thrill of seeing our comic heroes on the screen.However... once the comics boom died in the 90s (I think right around the time it got replaced by the Magic The Gathering boom)... the number of people who were comics readers dropped by fairly large numbers, and thus once THAT group becomes the dominant nostalgia consumer market and us Gen Xers become &quot;Middle Aged&quot;... that's when the comic book movies might begin to drop off in popularity.And if the comic books were cancelled right now?&nbsp; I don't think we'd see a REAL shift until those who are teenager readers right now and who would no longer read comics, become the dominant nostalgia consumer market in twenty years when they turn into their 30s and 40s.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="DEFCON 1, post: 7668669, member: 7006"] I would actually disagree with you here, Brian. Reason being... in the timeline of comic book history, it was the mid 1980s that saw the largest "explosion" of comic sales. More kids began reading more books, collecting comics books became a "money-making" hobby of collecting and saving for eventual resale (which explains why so many major lines had new #1s with like five or six different cover), and it coincided with the rise of the nerd and geek set. What we are seeing currently is *that* group of kids (of which I would include myself) now in the "Adults" age bracket of being flush with cash from careers, having families etc. etc. etc. So I think even if comic books themselves were to die right now... the movies will continue to be profitable so long as they continue to use the popularity and tropes of the '80s comic boom that we were all reading, and us '80s and early '90s kids are still the target audience willing to spend the money to go see the films. These Marvel and DC movies could continue to be profitable through the 2020s I'd be willing to bet, because all of us Gen Xers would still get the thrill of seeing our comic heroes on the screen. However... once the comics boom died in the 90s (I think right around the time it got replaced by the Magic The Gathering boom)... the number of people who were comics readers dropped by fairly large numbers, and thus once THAT group becomes the dominant nostalgia consumer market and us Gen Xers become "Middle Aged"... that's when the comic book movies might begin to drop off in popularity. And if the comic books were cancelled right now? I don't think we'd see a REAL shift until those who are teenager readers right now and who would no longer read comics, become the dominant nostalgia consumer market in twenty years when they turn into their 30s and 40s. [/QUOTE]

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