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The Something Awful Forums > The Finer Arts > BSS: Bisexual Super Son > What is the point of comics
 
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Endless Mike
Aug 13, 2003

Edge & Christian posted:

I'm out of the loop, now GBS is doing prank treads making GBS threads on the other band forums and giggling about owning people in their own thread?

I assumed FYAD was leaking. Again. But I guess it could be GBS "owning" us.

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Endless Mike
Aug 13, 2003

Cabbit posted:

I thought FYAD and GBS were the same thing now?

FYAD is pink, GBS is gray.

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Endless Mike
Aug 13, 2003



 Regarding marvel.wikia.com, I don't think that's maintained by Marvel, so blame the people who edit it for any weirdness. THAT SAID, publication date is the date displayed on the interior indicium, while release date is exactly that. It's a weird tradition that comes from the magazine industry where you post-date the magazine so that 1) it looks current when people see it and 2) retailers know when to remove it from the stand. I think you're making a bigger deal about something than is really necessary.

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Endless Mike
Aug 13, 2003



 I guess I am just not getting what about publication dates makes it difficult, especially when it's something that other, more mainstream mediums do without confusing anyone. Other things being confusing, sure, but the date?

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Endless Mike
Aug 13, 2003

surc posted:

(except the batman inc stuff, I didn't pick that up as it was coming out and for some reason I've never found a list that gave me the full reading order surrounding that, but that's the curse of having like 30 batman titles running at once :argh:).
I think d00gz put together a Morrison Batman reading order. It's...expansive.

A Tin Of Beans posted:

Slightly related: I think one of the biggest issues with comics is how much of a hold Diamond has over distribution, which kinda holds back the digital realm from what I can gather (?). It's also a weird little niche with an ever-shrinking market. That feels like a bit of a Catch-22 - the industry's fading, so they don't want to make efforts to be more accessible, but they're so inaccessible that it shrinks the market.
Diamond isn't at all what is holding back digital sales, it's comic retailers, but, really, the entire weekly catalogs of every major publisher are published digitally at this point, so it's not even a big deal unless you're trying to find some tiny indie comic that's selling three digits, in which case, the creators are probably selling it direct, anyway.

None of that is to say Diamond isn't a problem and detriment to the industry, but it doesn't have much to do with digital sales.

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