I suspect what will happen is that most of the comic book stores will go out of business or shift to mostly gaming/merch stores
Yeah, my beloved very queer-friendly LCS (Phoenix! ) basically survives on gaming night stuff, and they're right smack in the middle of some prime real estate being developed and their lease might be cancelled pretty soon. They keep on hanging on somehow and I love them.
that would be a huge change not just in how the comics are sold, but how the stories are told. Maybe some hero will come out of the woodwork and save the direct serial market! (Although if everything does shift to trades, I suspect you will also start to see skinnier and skinnier trades coming out more and more often until many trades are just more expensive floppies....)
I FEEL LIKE THAT HAS HAPPENED ALREADY //very cranky comics fan who now sees trades with issues 1-5 priced at like SIXTEEN BUCKS?! AND they're horribly printed and badly coloured!
I think a collapse of Diamond's system would also lead to more high-budget electronic-native comics, too
I would FUCKING LOVE THAT, because while I've really liked the new digital-only trade whatevers Marvel put out -- Luke Cage, Jessica Jones, Daughters of the Dragon -- the art is HORRIBLE. That was a real fucking bummer.
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Yeah, my beloved very queer-friendly LCS (Phoenix! ) basically survives on gaming night stuff, and they're right smack in the middle of some prime real estate being developed and their lease might be cancelled pretty soon. They keep on hanging on somehow and I love them.
that would be a huge change not just in how the comics are sold, but how the stories are told. Maybe some hero will come out of the woodwork and save the direct serial market! (Although if everything does shift to trades, I suspect you will also start to see skinnier and skinnier trades coming out more and more often until many trades are just more expensive floppies....)
I FEEL LIKE THAT HAS HAPPENED ALREADY //very cranky comics fan who now sees trades with issues 1-5 priced at like SIXTEEN BUCKS?! AND they're horribly printed and badly coloured!
I think a collapse of Diamond's system would also lead to more high-budget electronic-native comics, too
I would FUCKING LOVE THAT, because while I've really liked the new digital-only trade whatevers Marvel put out -- Luke Cage, Jessica Jones, Daughters of the Dragon -- the art is HORRIBLE. That was a real fucking bummer.