Is price the main/only thing preventing you from buying more current DC titles?

[JasonTodd428]

Very simple poll question: "Is price the main/only thing preventing you from buying more current DC titles?"
In other words, are there other current DC titles you don't buy each month because the current cover prices are too much? If the cover prices were lower, would that automatically lead to you buying more current DC-published (includes the Vertigo and Young Animal imprints) regular titles (not back issues and not collected editions) every month?

No, price is not the main or only thing preventing me from buying more DC titles. I only buy the books I'm interested in buying, nothing more and nothing less. Lower prices are irrelevant to that as lowing the price of book I could care less about will not make me suddenly start caring about it. Not even having a creative team I like on a book I have no interest in is capable of making me buy it.

[Lee Stone]

Not the only reason, but the main reason.

[Pohzee]

It's telling that I can read any Rebirth titles for free on Hoopla, but I don't. Price isn't a factor. Books being bad is. I pay for the books that I like. I don't read what I don't like.

If DC were putting out a large amount off good titles that I wanted to read, then it might come into play, but that is certainly not the case at the time being.

[ed2962]

It's a combination of price, characters, and creative teams. I might take a chance on a certain comic I don't know much about about if it's cheap, but I'm not going to buy a comic I'm not interested in no matter what the price.

[numberthirty]

Nope. I only read what I read because the vast majority of books are ones I consider lacking in quality and/or star characters I'm not interested in.

Ditto for me.

Ditto that Ditto.

[numberthirty]

You can put whatever paper you want in the book. You can charge a dollar lower, or even charge 50 cents. The fact of the matter is I only like and care for a handful of characters and there are many books that I am simply not going to purchase. Lowering the cost is not going to make me invested or care all of a sudden.

Exactly.

Trying to address "Price" when this reality exists makes zero sense. I won't switch to a can of Pepsi that is now a dime if I like Coke.

[Ascended]

Price is largely a non-issue for me. I buy what I like, and dont buy everything else.

I'd appreciate lower prices, as that would mean I could funnel more money into other things (or just keep more funds in savings), but my pull list wouldn't be affected by it.

In fact, if DC lowered its prices by using cheaper paper, cheaper artists, or cheaper art technologies.....that would mean the books wouldn't look as good as they do now and that might lead to my dropping some titles. So lower prices might in fact lead to me buying less from DC than I do now.

There are a lot of things DC could do to make me spend more money on them. Lowering prices isn't really one of them.

[Ying Ko]

Nah. I simply don't like the subpar storylines and the rushed art. I hate double shipping.

Their minis are way better than their ongoings atm.

[Ascended]

Nah. I simply don't like the subpar storylines and the rushed art. I hate double shipping.

Their minis are way better than their ongoings atm.

Really? I love it. I've found that the books that double ship keep my interest longer and keep me more engaged. The monthly wait for other books feels like such a drag now.

But then, Im of the mind that comics need to ship weekly, in 5 page issues, at a .99 price point. So clearly I favor a more rapid, modeled-after-tv approach to the industry.

I think DC made a smart move by double shipping at the 2.99 price point too. Undercutting Marvel's prices made it look a lot more enticing; I could spend 4 bucks a month for twenty pages at Marvel, (or maybe 8 bucks a month for forty pages if its a book Marvel double ships) or spend 6 bucks for forty pages at DC. It's a solid deal. (money isn't much of a consideration with my pull list but I still try to be a savvy spender)

[scary harpy]

Price is not an issue for me.

I read what I want...I just do not seem to want to read much anymore.

I don't think the comics have changed...I think I might have changed.

I do not want to read about Batman or Superman. The characters that I do like don't sell.

Art and storylines will drive me away. I hate the way some of my favorite characters look or act now.

I just find my enjoyment diminishing. The frequent events do not excite me at all.

I don't think cheaper comics will remedy this.

[j9ac9k]

There might be one or two books a month I might buy if they were all cheaper but it's really that I only have so much time to read. I already have a huge backlog of stuff to get through as it is.

[Osiris-Rex]

It's interesting that if you go over to the Marvel Comics threads, there are no polls or debates about cheaper paper or cheaper comic books. All Marvel titles are at least $3.99
and people that buy Marvel books are just fine with it. Are DC fans cheapskates or do they just like to complain a lot?

[married guy]

I find the price point now prohibits me from trying as many new books as I used to.
$5-6 a pop (Aussie dollar) is a bit much to ask.

[SmokeMonster]

Na, they could charge $1 or $10 an issue and nothing would change for me.

[Osiris-Rex]

If it were a character that didn't interest me I probably wouldn't pick up the book if it were free.