Silver Age Surfer (10/3/2009)

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New issues for $3.99? Variant covers instantly packaged by store owners for $29 to $49 a pop? Paper that has no business being in a comic book and, to add insult to injury, more often than not less than 10 highly unimaginative words on a page? Yes, they are simultaneously getting far too expensive and worse overall products. I buy very few current titles.

But I have caved and am reading/collecting Blackest Night. At least they read like old comic books.

oxbladder (10/3/2009)

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Yes. $3.99.

What's wrong with the paper? You would prefer they go to newsprint and raise the price? Most people prefer the new stock they print on. I have no issues with paper no matter what it is because i know that the paper DOESN'T significantly impact the price. What does is the cost of the creators. They are not paid out of a pool any more.

As for the content ... you probably will find lots of people that agree with you but they are mostly old and cynical and see the past as something that was all puppies and rainbows while not realizing there was a ton of crap back then too. Times change readers desires change and what flew in the past certainly wouldn't now.

There is lots of great stuff through all the eras of comics ... whether you think so or not. It drives me nuts when folks backhand certain eras just because they don't like them. It's a downer.

As for variants ... you don't even like new books so why cry over it? Do you realize that some of the variants have very low runs and it can cost dealers a lot of money to get them in? So say you are a dealer and there is a 1:50 variant one of your customers wants but to get it you actually have to order 50 books to get it and your normal order is for 5 copies. What do you do?

Personally I do not approve of some of the prices dealers affix to the variants but I disagree that they should charge cover for them. The idea is to sell through your stock ... or a majority of it anyway. Otherwise it sits in back issue and every square foot or piece of shelf space it takes up is losing money or taking space away from active selling merchandise.

BTW folk, just guess which decade saw the greatest increase in prices?

expander (10/31/2009)

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I wouldn't expect it to get any cheaper.

As for the pricing, I'm not sure how you came to the conclusion that dropping the comparatively expensive paper they use now (which used to be reserved exclusively for things like graphic novels) for a less opulent material will increase the cost to consumers,

thatjerk (10/31/2009)

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I have a friend that publishes and according to him, the cheaper quality paper actually ends up costing about the same as the more nicer paper, so the small difference in cost is more than offset by the look of the quality of the final product. I t might not increase the cost overall, but it won't reduce it either.

jesjet1969 (10/18/2008)

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I get a fantastic discount on my comics including bagged and boarded.  however even with that its getting very tough.  I stopped collecting nascar diecast, which is about $40.00 a pop.  So i could continue buying what I want but at sometime I will have to slow down some. When you start seeing the

STILL ONLY 2.99 then I will start worrying.

right now I get a new issue if its $2.99 for 1.95

3.50 for $2.25

and buy all my back issues from half price books.  Who right now is buying a lot of the LCS back stock.

Jesse James