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Post by sabongero on Jun 4, 2016 7:59:23 GMT -5
I was just blown away by DC Universe Rebirth #1. And some of my favorite characters was in this issue. I was really taken aback and felt really great reading this. After a long hiatus of almost two decades of not reading any comic books, I started reading comic books again back in 2006, when I happen to have found out that Hal Jordan was killed off in Green Lantern. Yes, I was so far out of touch of comic books, that I found out Hal was killed off almost 12 years later. I happened to pass by a comic book store and purchased a hardcover book collection of Green Lantern Rebirth, and my love of comic books came back, and this time reading it as an adult gave me new joy.
And it is just the right time after a few years to decide reading new comic books again with the release of Rebirth comic books. At the decade of the mid to late 2000's some of my favorite characters were Wally West and Ryan Choi. And it is great to see them here in this issue of DC Universe Rebirth #1. Wally West it is great to see him brought back, and it is good to see Ryan Choi alive again. I hope to see the supporting cast as well. They were interesting.
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Post by Batflunkie on Jun 4, 2016 20:54:08 GMT -5
Very happy to see DC coming out on top again after playing second banana to Marvel for ages. Word is that a lot of shop owners have tons of issues of Civil War II laying around when they can hardly keep DC Rebirth #1 in stock
And I really hope that it's not just a case of "first issue fever"
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Post by Action Ace on Jun 4, 2016 21:19:43 GMT -5
DC's Rebirth special is sold out and going to second and third printings already announced, yet there are dealer son the floor of Wizard World Philly with cases and cases (thousands of copies-I've seen the photos of the booths at Bleeding Cool and on facebook posts of people I know at the Con) selling them at $6 each (the price of the 2nd printing) or 2 copies for $10. SO it's a sales success for DC, but not as many people have bought and read copies as the going to additional printings may indicate. A lot of speculators seem to have bought this up (and are buying every copy of Before Watchman Dr. Manhattan #4 they can get their hands on and flipping it for $20). It also looked liked they had a few hundred if not a few thousand copies of the Rebirth issues released this week at their tables at the con, so I am curious to see how much of the sales boost is real and sustainable and how much is dealers buying up copies on spec to make them short and hot in demand items in the short term. Seriously, hoarding the $2.99 special until a second print for $5.99 was announced and then flooding the market with the first print priced at the 2nd print's cover price is a dick move by a lot of retailers and not helping DC build a long term customer base with this. But then again, that is what the direct market is these days, so you reap what you sow. -M edit to add: here's a pic of one of the tables at Wizard World Philly...  update from Bleeding Coolhe sold all 440 copies |
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Post by Deleted on Jun 4, 2016 23:15:45 GMT -5
Good for him, charging double on a book less than a month old. That's the way to build up a customer base, exploit them like the speculator bust of the 90s never happened, because exploiting customers on stuff that just came out did the industry so much good then, what could possibly go wrong if we mad ea quick buck at their expense this time...
-M
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Post by Icctrombone on Jun 5, 2016 5:20:05 GMT -5
Good for him, charging double on a book less than a month old. That's the way to build up a customer base, exploit them like the speculator bust of the 90s never happened, because exploiting customers on stuff that just came out did the industry so much good then, what could possibly go wrong if we mad ea quick buck at their expense this time... -M Kind of scummy , but I've seen worse. I remember a shop owner charging above cover price for a book that came out that week. His reasoning was that he set aside 50 or so books that he had a higher price for after the initial 100 or so sold out. But a convention is a weird animal. You will charge whatever you want and see what sells. I bet any left over DU Rebirth books will be discounted on that last day. |
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Post by Batflunkie on Jun 5, 2016 8:48:52 GMT -5
Good for him, charging double on a book less than a month old. That's the way to build up a customer base, exploit them like the speculator bust of the 90s never happened, because exploiting customers on stuff that just came out did the industry so much good then, what could possibly go wrong if we mad ea quick buck at their expense this time... I don't like it much either, but it is the basic rule of economics at work. He was providing a service and people took advantage of it, regardless of how horribly overpriced it was |
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Post by Deleted on Jun 5, 2016 12:51:07 GMT -5
Good for him, charging double on a book less than a month old. That's the way to build up a customer base, exploit them like the speculator bust of the 90s never happened, because exploiting customers on stuff that just came out did the industry so much good then, what could possibly go wrong if we mad ea quick buck at their expense this time... I don't like it much either, but it is the basic rule of economics at work. He was providing a service and people took advantage of it, regardless of how horribly overpriced it was Dealers holding back books to sell at a higher price creates an artificial shortage which then spikes artificial demand as people think the books are scarcer than they are and become willing to pay higher prices for something they think is in short supply, but in reality is readily available. That's not basic economics, it's market manipulation and essentially letting greed drive cheating customers out of money. It's a short term spike in revenue that disregards the long term business gains of building a returning customer base who will continue to buy form you. It's the same kind of market manipulation that alienated a large percentage of the customer base for comics in the 90s when the manipulation was laid bare and people felt cheated by these dealers causing them to leave comics as customers in droves. It's not basic economics at work, it's bad business practices trying to manipulate supply and demand to gouge customers for more money. -M |
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Post by Batflunkie on Jun 5, 2016 13:54:24 GMT -5
Well M, that's unfortunately how "capitialism" works in modern America, exploiting the consumer while the iron is still good and hot
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Post by Deleted on Jun 5, 2016 14:38:41 GMT -5
Well M, that's unfortunately how "capitialism" works in modern America, exploiting the consumer while the iron is still good and hot Adam Smith would beat you with a wet noodle for calling that system capitalism, even with quotation marks. -M |
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Post by Deleted on Jun 5, 2016 14:58:59 GMT -5
From a poster over at Bleeding Cool-the new52 was the new Coke of the comics world?
-M
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Post by earl on Jun 5, 2016 15:09:01 GMT -5
Big stacks of the Rebirth issues on the shelf at my local shop. They got big stacks of some of the Marvel re-starts too.
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Post by Batflunkie on Jun 5, 2016 15:23:22 GMT -5
From a poster over at Bleeding Cool-the new52 was the new Coke of the comics world? -M Didn't coke drop the "classic" label in the early 00's or something though? Also, the thought of a "Marvel Taste Test Challenge" has me giggling like a jackass |
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Post by Deleted on Jun 5, 2016 19:27:51 GMT -5
From a poster over at Bleeding Cool-the new52 was the new Coke of the comics world? -M Didn't coke drop the "classic" label in the early 00's or something though? Also, the thought of a "Marvel Taste Test Challenge" has me giggling like a jackass They dropped it eventually when the brand escaped the shadow of new Coke. For a short while, both were available on the market, then only classic and eventually Classic just became Coke again-maybe around the time they introduced Coke Zero, but I am not sure. -M |
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Post by thwhtguardian on Jun 5, 2016 20:00:57 GMT -5
I've been enjoying Lois and Clark so the plot of Superman has me intrigued but although I like King there wasn't a lot to go on in Batman Rebirth to pull someone in if they were a new reader. Still, the books I'm the most interested in are yet to make it out yet.
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Post by Warmonger on Jun 5, 2016 21:55:14 GMT -5
Anyone interested in the new Hellblazer when it comes out next month?
I haven't followed the series since the Ennis/Jenkins days.
This Rebirth reboot sound interesting at all?
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