This past weekend I saw a blurb on the wrestling news site PWmania.com about World Wrestling Entertainment’s kid magazine dropping their comic-related content and firing senior editor Paul Kupperberg. One of the comic strips, which featured Matt and Jeff Hardy defending mankind from aliens aboard “Space Station WWE,” was done by John Byrne, who posted the two he had completed in his forum. He also comments on why they dropped the strips:

Discussing this with Paul, I noted that there is more to it than simple economics or “kids don’t read” mentality. Some things simply do not cross over into other forms. Sports are high on that list. Billions of dollars spent every year, in this country alone, on sports of all kinds, yet if we take all the thousands upon thousands of comics published in the last 75 years or so, how many of them were sports oriented? And of the few that were, how many were successful.

Same with movies. So many millions of miles of film, yet so few sports movies. Novels are the same. Such books/movies/TV shows etc do exist, but they are by far the exception, and really successful examples are an exception to the exception.

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