[ SECRET POST #2682 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2682 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

A lot of the audience probably won't set foot in a comic store. Because, well, we hear stories.

But hey, comixology is a thing now, virtual readers are a growing market with un-virtual dollars. Comics need new readers, and they have to come from somewhere. Less than 10% of the audience starts picking up a related book? Holy CRAP do you even REALIZE how many new readers that is? A movie, especially a giant summer blockbuster has an ENORMOUS audience compared to even a best-selling superhero book. If even a tenth, or hell, a fifth of those people who hadn't been reading comics before decide to go and give a comic a try because of a movie, that is a HUGE boost in sales.

[(Anonymous)]

It's been two years since Avengers. When are we going to see that huge boost?

[(Anonymous)]

why are you so angry about trying to get movie fans to read comics

[(Anonymous)]

Because it's a pointless endeavor.

[(Anonymous)]

You're basing this on what now?

[(Anonymous)]

Comics sales versus movie sales?

[(Anonymous)]

Oh.

Oh, wow, now that is stupid.

Movies are ALWAYS going to sell more than comics. Hell, TV shows will have more viewers than comic readers. I mean, hell, you can take an 8-year-old to the Avengers movie, but I don't think most of them would want to dive into the comics.

But that explains it. It's not that your data is wrong. It's that you have no idea how to read it. That is...that is just precious.

[(Anonymous)]

Oh for fuck's sake... I'm certainly not expecting billions of people to march into comic stores, but you would expect there to be SOME increase in sales if this direction is supposed to bring in new readers. Marvel has been making some of the most successful movies ever made. None of that success has gone over to the comics. Not even a little.

Is this really a hard concept to grasp for you?

[(Anonymous)]

DA

As people have already said we don't shop at comic stores. This also means our sales data is not publicly released as that only applies to issues sold through comic stores. Unless you work at Marvel and can see ALL the sales data you have no idea how many of us there are.

[(Anonymous)]

It's less pointless than catering to the whiny, entitled, WASPy fandom they currently have.

[(Anonymous)]

Ha!

but...but 18-35-year-old males...

[(Anonymous)]

as a cute single white female, I have been in comic book stores and say it's about 50/50 to those stories being true. It's better to have a friend with you. You get treated better.

But pseudo related story, I like MCU, I like comics. Guardians of the Galaxy is coming out and it looks FUNNY, but I know nothing about it. So I walk into my local B&N (because comic shops where I live are non-existent) and go "Oh, they've got the hard bound collections, awesome." I pick up the GotG, look at the back and go "Okay, so I need Avengers Age of Ultron to actually meet these guys." Look for it... they don't have it. I go, "Well, shit." And set the GotG book down on the shelf and walk away. I want to start from the beginning. I'm FUNNY like that.

I have money! I would buy comics. If I could FIND them. Which is why comixology would be a great thing, you know, if I wasn't so addicted to PAPER.

So added problem of.... if they want people to read these things, they have GOT to keep them in print and in stock.

Plus, it'd be great if they'd move OUT of the comics story lines in the movies and come up with new stories for these characters, because just, really, how many Spidey reboots and Superman reboots and Batman reboots do we NEED that have the same story over and over and.... you get the idea.

[thezmage]

Actually, Annihilation: Conquest is the first (ish) appearance of this group as a team.

[(Anonymous)]

SA

*nods* thank you for the info, I appreciate it!

Standing in a book store reading back covers without anything handy for reference, you aren't going to know that :P (Which is why this comm is so awesome.)

[(Anonymous)]

You don't read to need Age of Ultron. The best place for a new person to start is at the beginning of the Bendis series. The first volume is called GotG: Cosmic Avengers and the second volume is GotG: Angela (the third volume isn't out yet). It's a lot easier to start there than with the 2008 series which first introduced the team (which can be very confusing at times). The current series is more straightforward and you don't need to read everything else which was being released at the time.

[(Anonymous)]

I don't think they're in the AoA comic (which isn't very good and i think the only thing the movie will be using from the comic is the title and Ultron himself).