Hey kids! So last blog I mentioned that I was a bit out of sorts because of the price of comics today. Hey, I'm not that old, but I remember when I would get a dollar from my Mom and go into the corner store to buy 5 comics. That's right.. 5! (Math: 20¢ each) I even remember the day I was incredibly disappointed when I could only get 4! Today, if a kid actually ventured into a comic shop, he could only get 2 comics if his folks gave him $10!! This is obscene! It's impossible to think that this industry can withstand the failing economy and the absurdly rising cost of 28 color pages. Maybe 15 to 30 minutes of entertainment.
Last month at the NYC Comic Con DC and Marvel announced that they would be lowering the prices of their 22 page $3.99 books back to $2.99. An awesome start. And, so far, DC seems to be moving forward on that claim. But, if Previews is any indication, the recently Disney-acquired, Marvel Comics has here-to-fore not lowered the price of more than a mere 3 titles. This cannot be allowed to stand. Marvel has to understand that A) they cannot lie to us, and B) that prices NEED to go down. Now, I'm no revolutionary, but I for one am going to stop buying most, if not ALL, of the Marvel titles I currently buy until they make good on their promise. And I strongly suggest that this is the only way we can make our position heard. We have to "vote with our wallet." I suggest that we all decide that if Marvel is not going to keep their promise of dropping the 22 page regular titles from $3.99 to $2.99, that we boycott those over priced books.
Can you do it? If you can, I believe that Disney... sorry, Marvel will hear us and comply.
Let me know what you think. Email me at ComicEx@Gmail.com.
VIVA LA REVOLUCION!
-Rickman
P.S.: So far Scott still hasn't noticed he has a blog. For that matter, he hasn't noticed the Dr. Doom riding the Unicorn surrounded by a rainbow on the home page. What's up with Doom on a Unicorn with a rainbow anyway? Is Doom trying to tell us something? -R
