But you also gotta admit that it’s easier for a movie goer tp venture into amain batman books and find at core the same experience than in the nolan movies .

Marvel stuff ? not so much .

Marvel has only truly recently begin streamlining their comics universe to look like their movies , otherise , Spiderman and the Avengers , Thor are quite different adventures , with lots of unknown characters . And let’s not even begin on a potential Hulk fan coming and realizing they are like 3 hulks right now .

The Ultimate universe is the closest thing they’ve got to the Marvel movies , and while usually awesome and rich of idea , it’s oh so dark and cynical

Look at Warren Ellis’s Secret Avenger’s run. First off, Secret Avengers seems like a book many people waited for trade. It sold out heavily. The second volume even more so, its nearly impossible to find. Now, Ellis’s single issue run didn’t sell very well, so the hardcover was under-ordered, and is now totally unavailable. Marvel should go back to print on this, but instead, they print a similarly weak trade order, which sells out just as quickly. DC seems to support their catalog, which means that you can get their books when you want them. Marvel just charges $5 per issue for their HCs, and then doesn’t print more when they sell out, even at that high mark-up.