boy was that a mistake. If there's a hobby you like, ,its always best to keep it niche, lest the mainstream completely ruins it and the hobby's communities as well
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I’ve said the same thing. I stupidly thought the MCU movies could get people into comics. Now I never want anything to be adapted and I hate the fact that nerdy stuff became trendy. Look how they murdered Wheel of Time and Witcher
Comics are so bad the MCU made 30 billion dollars and it didn't budge comic book sales in any noticeable way.
Exactly. Crazy they couldn’t capitalize on it. I heard a story from a comic book store where a boy wanted an iron man comic and left empty handed because they just had ironheart. Also people like the idea of comics but don’t actually read them. But they see a woman with a Captain America shirt on and they think she reads comics
A cute girl wearing a comic book t-shirt just wants you to look at her tits twice.
Then when a guy asks her what comic book she likes she will whine about “being quizzed by hardcore nerds”
Amazon butchering the one digital storefront for them certainly didn't help the situation. I'm still salty about that.
I don't know what Amazon did with any comics storefront, what happened?
Comixology was the smoothest most refined online digital comics experience. Amazon bought them out and gutted the entire app and basically just redirected everything to kindle. It more or less killed off a huge chunk of digital readership in the industry.
It'd be like if Steam suddenly became an unusable slag heap of awful UX design that made the shittiest mom and pop eCommerce site look like futuristic tech, except that no one else was selling PC games. And also some of your games just straight up stopped existing as a bonus.
Internal activists basically killed any idea of this, forcing comic stores to stock the titles they wanted sold rather than the stuff people were actually willing to buy. IIRC.
I marvel(heh) at the stupidity of some people, but I honestly think people don't realize just how much lightening in the bottle the MCU really was, myself among them.