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Post by Icctrombone on Feb 19, 2024 10:23:39 GMT -5
How many 12 year olds are just starting to buy comics in 2024?
The variants are harmless. Just don’t buy them.
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Feb 19, 2024 10:35:46 GMT -5
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Post by Roquefort Raider on Feb 19, 2024 10:35:46 GMT -5
How many 12 year olds are just starting to buy comics in 2024? Probably the same number who buy hockey trading cards. They used to be all the rage in the schoolyard ( way more than comics) back when I was 10. Now the only people I see collecting them are adults (and not young adults). I miss the gum that came in each package. |
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Feb 19, 2024 11:41:27 GMT -5
Post by EdoBosnar on Feb 19, 2024 11:41:27 GMT -5
(...) I miss the gum that came in each package.If it was anything like that little hard, chalky stick of gum that came with Star Wars cards, I'm assuming you primarily used it as a weapon... |
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Feb 19, 2024 11:50:35 GMT -5
Post by Roquefort Raider on Feb 19, 2024 11:50:35 GMT -5
(...) I miss the gum that came in each package.If it was anything like that little hard, chalky stick of gum that came with Star Wars cards, I'm assuming you primarily used it as a weapon... But it made our gums tough! |
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Feb 19, 2024 13:06:41 GMT -5
Post by Deleted on Feb 19, 2024 13:06:41 GMT -5
How many 12 year olds are just starting to buy comics in 2024?
Just the 12 year olds in adult bodies, it seems.
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Feb 19, 2024 13:10:08 GMT -5
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Post by Icctrombone on Feb 19, 2024 13:10:08 GMT -5
How many 12 year olds are just starting to buy comics in 2024?
Just the 12 year olds in adult bodies, it seems.
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Feb 19, 2024 13:13:27 GMT -5
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Post by Deleted on Feb 19, 2024 13:13:27 GMT -5
Rags: I will not buy your stupid variants again [said in stoic defiance, using both British and Trini accents]
Dealer: Shut your piehole and check this out.
Rags: [shuts piehole]
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Feb 19, 2024 16:03:31 GMT -5
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Post by Confessor on Feb 19, 2024 16:03:31 GMT -5
Rags: I will not buy your stupid variants again [said in stoic defiance, using both British and Trini accents] Dealer: Shut your piehole and check this out. Rags: [shuts piehole] You've always been a sucker for an MJ cover!  |
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Post by tonebone on Feb 20, 2024 16:24:31 GMT -5
How many 12 year olds are just starting to buy comics in 2024? The variants are harmless. Just don’t buy them. Why would a 12 year old WANT to start buying comics in 2024? 5 bucks for a pamphlet full of ads with an incomplete story and 30 bogus confusing covers to choose from? There is NOTHING to draw a kid into this terrible, inaccessible hobby. |
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Post by MDG on Feb 20, 2024 17:09:41 GMT -5
How many 12 year olds are just starting to buy comics in 2024? The variants are harmless. Just don’t buy them. Why would a 12 year old WANT to start buying comics in 2024? 5 bucks for a pamphlet full of ads with an incomplete story and 30 bogus confusing covers to choose from? There is NOTHING to draw a kid into this terrible, inaccessible hobby. Some folks--me included--have been saying things like this--with the appropriate change in price--since the late 80s.
It does suck, though, that a kid can't go into a comic shop and ask for the latest "Batman" or "Superman" or "Hulk" and always get a satisfying story that meets their expectations.
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Feb 20, 2024 17:09:48 GMT -5
How many 12 year olds are just starting to buy comics in 2024? The variants are harmless. Just don’t buy them. Lots. They just aren't buying 21 page superhero funnybooks every Wednesday at the local funnybook store. And a lot of them started well earlier than age twelve on stuff like Dog Man, Captain Underpants, etc. and are moving on to My Hero Academia and stuff like that. |
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Feb 20, 2024 17:16:54 GMT -5
Post by Deleted on Feb 20, 2024 17:16:54 GMT -5
Why would a 12 year old WANT to start buying comics in 2024? 5 bucks for a pamphlet full of ads with an incomplete story and 30 bogus confusing covers to choose from? There is NOTHING to draw a kid into this terrible, inaccessible hobby.
Agreed. Not to say that 12 year old kids don't look at the comics on sale at our place, but simply can't afford them. You need to have a job and a decent income to afford a few new books, or back-issues, they are no longer pocket money and haven't been for a long time. And while discounts bins fare better, no dealer is in business to make money of that sort of material, it's just there to hopefully break-even.
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Post by EdoBosnar on Feb 20, 2024 17:22:40 GMT -5
Lots. They just aren't buying 21 page superhero funnybooks every Wednesday at the local funnybook store. And a lot of them started well earlier than age twelve on stuff like Dog Man, Captain Underpants, etc. and are moving on to My Hero Academia and stuff like that. ... I love Dog Man. |
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Feb 20, 2024 18:05:19 GMT -5
Post by berkley on Feb 20, 2024 18:05:19 GMT -5
I don't find myself caring too much about the state of the comic book industry, especially the monthly series. If there were no more new Daredevil or FF or Thor or whatever comics that would be fine with me: I haven't read them in years and don't feel much curiosity as to what's being done with those characters now.
As long as comics in some form are being created I'll hope to find the occasional new book that I'm interested in, like Kate Beaton's Ducks last year, or the latest effort by creators whose work I usually like, e.g. Daniel Clowes, the Hernandezes, Marini, etc.
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Feb 20, 2024 18:19:38 GMT -5
Post by Slam_Bradley on Feb 20, 2024 18:19:38 GMT -5
Lots. They just aren't buying 21 page superhero funnybooks every Wednesday at the local funnybook store. And a lot of them started well earlier than age twelve on stuff like Dog Man, Captain Underpants, etc. and are moving on to My Hero Academia and stuff like that. ... I love Dog Man. And so do millions of kids. But for some reason it's not "comics" because it's not a 32-page superhero book that appears once a month in a funnybook store. |
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