Announcing this shit the day before too are they just trying to piss people off?
Announcing this shit the day before too are they just trying to piss people off?
Considering that most comic stores by me are closed it makes sense. Marvel wants to help brick and mortar stores, however I'd love for marvel to take this opportunity to look at shonen jump and beginning copying their distribution modle
Sp the plan is too wait for who knows how long lose whatever type of hype they have and then what release all these comics weekly? Why when you can just do digital with all the potential bored people chilling at home with nothing to do making purchases.
I don't buy digital but this is still worrisome. I hope this doesn't kill X-factor before it even started but it probably will.
I cannot imagine that Marvel is going to go weeks and weeks without any new content coming out just to appease Diamond. That’s how you lose your already declining readership.
But, again, maybe they don’t care? As I said, publishing is such a small revenue stream for Disney. Perhaps they feel like they’ve got plenty of content to work with for future films and shows, and thus aren’t in a hurry to put more out right now and potentially disrupt the legacy model for physical distribution (via Diamond to brick and mortar retail stores)? I typically check in on Wednesdays on ComiXology to see what’s out and buy what I want (mostly X-books). If this practice goes away for awhile, I’ll probably just trade wait most stuff and stopping buy single issues on Wednesdays.
Nailed it. Seems short sighted. Perhaps well meaning, to try and help out the retailers and Diamond, but still missing the boat in terms of who the customer is. If Marvel thinks Diamond is their ultimate customer, I guess it makes sense. But if they their ultimate customers are the readers, this is dumb.
Last edited by Jackraow21; 03-31-2020 at 07:40 AM.