We've got just a few years, chief. Time to fiddle!
10-15 years. Ain't no Marvel Comics in the cyberpunk of 2049
+-2061. Gotta have that 100 years anniversary
2099. Our kids get to watch the last cartoonist get launched into orbit
beyond all that. we're closer to 1961 than we are to the end point. Excellsior!
Sure but my point here is that the overall goal is to create one large overall story over a 15 year period (15 is just an arbitrary choice). There's a beginning, middle and end. There are sub-stories within... but ultimately the goal is to create an overall narrative that ends. You guys seem to be saying writers would not be onboard with this kind of project?
I don't mind the in slightest!
The poll is transparent btw, so i can see who voted what. So far the "10-15 years" left window is dominated by Pro-marriage, anti-current run folks.
To what I want to say...really? That's so little time! The first Iron Man movie came out 15 years ago! 10 years ago we had Superior! That's like...4-5 more runs on Amazing Spider-Man MAX! with ~25 issues a year that's 250-325 issues, which gets us up to ASM ~1250.
Does it feel like you're watching the last, fallow years of a franchise you once loved?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LFr_jyfRTY4
gotta say... this was an interestingly in-side baseball look at the industry.. and it shows why DC and Marvel are failing so hard. the real market for mainstream comics.. was actually Diamond Distributors... and when they went under... the entire industry got tipped over.
I wouldnt even mind if all that was left was them republishing older runs monthly with cheap newsprint for $1 an issue. Sort of what MAD ended up doing, but cheaper.
Comic books are like super cockroaches, they just don't die no matter how long you expect them to.
Honestly the two big problems that make it so comics don't attract new readers are the grossly high prices and how incomprehensible they are if you don't know a lot from the setting.
I wouldn't be surprised if comic books are being published at loss, but they keep doing so for the sake of testing specific types of stories, and/or keep specific copyrights, so as long as Disney owns Marvel, and as long as Disney is around, it's probably staying.
American comics as a medium are dying. Fan bases are getting old and not being replaced by new readers. I give it 10-15 years.
The entry level for comic books has definitely hit a high point. Its even harder for old readers to jump back into comic books without the prior knowledge. Imagine trying to explain what the current xmen are to someone whose base understanding was the movies. It's an uphill battle, where as manga will always have an definitive starting and ending.