It’s big question day over at The Comics Journal message board:
Why is music more popular then comics? You think there would be a bigger audience for comics but music is more accessible I guess. You have a combination of both with Televison and Movies. Movies are really big but I guess that fact that comics cost like 3.00 a pop for about 15 minutes if that of entertaiment isn’t good news. While a sunday Newspaper offers alot of stuff that is more down to earth.
You Tube is popular but it’s basically the same subject people doing stupid stuff. Serious content on youtube gets put down it’s all about living in the moment.
Comics just haven’t matured I guess it’s fictional content nobody is going to take superheros seriously so I guess comics need a overhaul in America.
I think Tabloid magazines are more popular and more accessible then comics they cost about the same as comics the content is shallow like comics Paris Hilton BLA BLA BLAH Britney Spears is a bad mother so I guess if you care about tabliods your in a world of hurt
Can’t keep up with plastic sugery and chicks who have no self control.
If newspapers cost like 50 cents there is no reason why a comic should cost 3.00 comics unless Brenner printer is ripping you off big time.
Thankfully, the other TCJ board posters treat the above with the respect it deserves:
“Music’s better than comics, come on.”
“I can’t read comics while I’m driving.”
“It’s less work.”
August 8th, 2007 at 4:22 pm
Music has a specialized part of the brain dedicated to processing it. Ergo, the experience of listening to music feels fundamentally satisfying in the same way that seeing, hearing and tasting does. Comics, novels, TV and movies can’t compete with that, becasue they don’t have chunks of the brain made for their exlusive use. It’s just human nature.
August 8th, 2007 at 5:01 pm
The example I always use is Jursassic Park. When the first movie came out, you could buy the paperback books for $5.99, a ticket to the movie for $8.50, or the 4 issue mini-series for $12.00.
The first two are preferable in both price and imagination.
August 9th, 2007 at 2:09 am
Music is just a fad. It will be gone in a few months.
August 9th, 2007 at 5:54 pm
Jurassic Park comics were $3 in 1993? Even Image comics were only $2, and they were the most expensive comics I remember at the time.
August 9th, 2007 at 5:56 pm
Damn, I just checked Mile High, they were $3.