Light Warrior
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« Reply #2 on: October 04, 2012, 03:46:34 AM » |
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From a business perspective: oversaturation is a serious problem. Consumers' time, money, space, and interest are not infinite, so it's erroneous to think that selling ten times the titles will equate to ten times the sales, even if you meet popularity demands and aren't pushing something fans didn't demand. I can't afford all the titles I want, so things get left on the shelves. Much of this is due to problems expanding the market beyond the diehard fan for the last 20 years. While something like video games have seen growing sales implying an increase in market share, comics have largely stagnated to the same level.
On a story level, while I see that there's a large character list we all want to see get time, it has gotten out of hand. DC does alright providing a wide range of titles in varying genres, and the number of titles serves to try and deliver that diversity. Marvel blows it with a few too many "duplicate" books. Okay, some get off on a technicality like Secret Avengers which could still exist as Heroes for Hire, or anything else and is just using the name for sales. But so much of the MU is pulling multiple duty by overusing popular characters in multiple books, and offering titles that are "same book, different lineup." Sometimes even the spinoffs are too narrowly focused such that we can forget a good cosmic book, or some hidden section of the MU getting a reimagining, in favor of books that spun out of Spider-man and X-books. Scarlet Spider? Venom? How about something not tied to Spider-Man. At best it's tiresome. At worst, it's hard to read just one due to crossovers, so you end up reading none.
I'm all for companies having as many books as possible, but you have to know the size of your market, and can't limit by just re-selling the same thing..
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