Comments on: “DC Entertainment Really Doesn’t Care About Any of Our Business”

By: jocuri online cu masini

jocuri online cu masini — Thu, 31 Jan 2013 20:12:42 +0000

It’s hard to come by educated people about this subject, but you sound like you know what you’re talking about!
Thanks

By: CT

CT — Mon, 10 Dec 2012 23:30:20 +0000

It’s cyclical…I’m buying much more Marvel product these days as my beloved DC stands revealed from behind the curtain with nothing to say (at the moment to me). So unlike Dorothy I’m ignoring the entity behind the curtain.

By: K-Box in the Box

K-Box in the Box — Sat, 08 Dec 2012 22:59:27 +0000

Michael Payton: Regardless of the rightness or wrongness of the business practice, you’re willfully missing Brian Hibbs’ point, which is DC’s willingness to completely go against their own word in such a short interval of time without any prior warning. In the real world, that is, by definition, a deal-breaker for actual businesses; people get fired and corporate partnerships get ended over things like that.

By: Michael Payton

Michael Payton — Sat, 08 Dec 2012 21:52:35 +0000

Every other entertainment medium has evolved to include digital distribution in the past decade, but dinosaurs like Hibbs refuse to evolve from the antiquated direct market distribution formula that has relegated comic books into a ghetto of dank little holes that actively chase off outsiders. It isn’t just the simplicity and convenience of being able to buy our comics from the sofa that has driven digital comic sales, but shop owners like Hibbs that have chased readers away from the LCS.

Paper comics are for collectors. Digital comics are for READERS. DC, Marvel, Dark Horse, etc need READERS not just collectors to stay in business.

Waiting till 2pm every Wednesday was ridiculous. Now I can read my comics when I first get up in the morning. Kudos to DC for recognizing this and getting me my comics ASAP and for taking the steps to expand the distribution of comics back into the hands of real people who have spend billions on other superhero material, but wouldn’t step foot in a comic shop ghetto a second time.

By: Brian Hibbs

Brian Hibbs — Fri, 07 Dec 2012 16:43:35 +0000

This was a promise by exactly the same people who run the company today — directly from John Rood’s lips — not from Levitz’s era.

-B

By: James Van Hise

James Van Hise — Fri, 07 Dec 2012 16:38:02 +0000

Not exactly without precedent. When new people come in they don’t feel obligated by promises made by people who are not them. Back in the 1980s CRISIS ON INFINITE EARTHS was released in a $100 hardback because “there will never be a softcover edition.” A few years later, with little fanfare, a softcover was released. DC didn’t even bother to explain. They just did it.