I was asked today a couple times if comic books were still a thing. Wait, people still read comic books? People still collect comic books? That's a thing still?
Imagine my shock. I might have been a little flabbergasted. I assured them wholeheartedly that the comic book industry does indeed still live on. In fact we get new stock fairly regularly of comic books of all kinds. As fans of comics ourselves and the animated and live action shows that spring from them we can't not have comics in our lives. That being said we don't currently retail comic books. We won't have the latest and the greatest or get the month to months but we will get in the random and the favorite and the unknown.
It amazes me ... some of the comics we come across. All the characters that don't make it into movies or tv shows because they weren't main characters. A movie company would have to pay a fortune to fill every single character so known and so loved and all the info would no longer fit into a movie or a series of shows. So the comic industry lives on. For the artists, the readers, the writers. For the collectors and those who casually enjoy, the comic book lives on.
Imagine my shock. I might have been a little flabbergasted. I assured them wholeheartedly that the comic book industry does indeed still live on. In fact we get new stock fairly regularly of comic books of all kinds. As fans of comics ourselves and the animated and live action shows that spring from them we can't not have comics in our lives. That being said we don't currently retail comic books. We won't have the latest and the greatest or get the month to months but we will get in the random and the favorite and the unknown.
It amazes me ... some of the comics we come across. All the characters that don't make it into movies or tv shows because they weren't main characters. A movie company would have to pay a fortune to fill every single character so known and so loved and all the info would no longer fit into a movie or a series of shows. So the comic industry lives on. For the artists, the readers, the writers. For the collectors and those who casually enjoy, the comic book lives on.