11/14/2023
Topic:
Login keeps failing and messages never sending
Stormflora
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Hi. I'm a new user here, completely fresh account. Whenever I try to login to this website, it constantly says my pass is wrong, always forcing me to do a reset to login.
Even when I do, it still says it is incorrect after login (I've exactly copy pasted the passwords like a hundred times, so it's not my fault). But oddly enough, it ultimately logs in, in the end.
Also, the message system when inquiring about an item for sale is also broken. It keeps saying "error" when you try to send a message and does not go through no matter how many times you try.
This clunkiness with this website really needs to be addressed or else people will not use the website even before they get a chance to try it out. It's not new user friendly.
edited by stormflora on 11/14/2023 |
11/14/2023
Topic:
New Back Issues
Stormflora
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Captaindiptoad wrote:
Thank you guys for the info. Seems like its a combo f many variants ad publishers/distributors printing to order. I suppose that reduces the overhead for them. To bad though, it would be nice if they at lease had a few exras for he comics that end up being popular. So basically you just need to have a comic shop around that's willing to throw some money down, or hit the 2nd hand market.
The comic market is just like any market. Supply and demand.
Due to the wide availability of comics and new series coming out every week that are often rehashes of the same IPs, publishers effectively do limited runs of every single comic that they push out. They've crunched the numbers according to the number of preorders and guaranteed orders they've received and try to minimize any costs that would come from unsold copies. This was a huge issue back in the olden days with newsstands refunding unsold copies, which modern publishers have largely addressed via mail order or no-refund copies. But the latter actually caused more issues to present themselves, such as reduced order quantities or a devaluation of comics as a whole due to dollar (technically, cents) bins being stuffed.
If an issue of a modern comic ends up being a massively hot sell, they sometimes issue reprint variants to give people a second chance. But if you don't see that for the comics you are interested in, you know that they've sold their quota and have moved on with it, meaning you're forced to buy second-hand, or wait for a trade paperback volume release.
For limited runs, a series is only slated to be published for a designated number of issues. The publishers then crunch the numbers on the sales of that series' run as a whole to determine whether or not to renew it with its creators.
The manga publishing scene in Japan works very similarly. They publish issues inside of massive 1,000-page magazine tomes made out of toilet paper, which only costs a few bucks at most. However, not everyone subscribes to these magazines, meaning they will often end up with gaps. These publishers put in all sorts of series into a single magazine to entice readers to browse and look through other series as well and convince them to follow multiple. Interested readers would then buy the trade paperback volumes, which is where the real money is actually made, and the success of individual series can be gauged and measured by the publisher.
In any case, if your goal is to fill some gaps, the second-hand market is there to fill them for you.
edited by stormflora on 11/14/2023 |
