Also, you might have missed it, but not very long after announcing the price drop, DC also announced they were cutting back creator’s royalties. So the savings to make possible the price cut isn’t coming out of the Warner corporate coffers… oh, no. It’s coming out of the pockets of the people who actually do the creative work. The people most directly responsible for making the comics in the first place.

It seems that since 1992, comic books have moved on from appealing to children and people of all ages, but more towards seeing just how much they can screw over the diehard fan that buys over 80 comic books per month. Well, those fanboys that blow almost $10,000 a year on your overpriced 5 minute reads decided that Marvel had pushed them around long enough by constantly raising their titles to $3.99.

We’ve hit a ceiling for Marvel and DC Comics that the fools you milk dry by squeezing thousands of dollars out of their man-tits for the last two decades, and that is $2.99.

It’d be nice if you would at least make an attempt to get back your casual fans by offering a 2nd option for comic buyers: cheaper paper, cheaper price. There’s very few comics out there that are worth more than $1.50 of my money or anyone’s money, and we don’t give a s*it about collector’s value or gloss. We just want to read a story.

As much as you keep crying that $2.99 is going to hurt the industry, you should know this industry was doomed a long time ago when you told all your casual readers to go f*ck themselves so that you could only market towards the manchildren addicted to comics with deep wallets or psychological issues. They’re the only people keeping the industry afloat right now, and Marvel pissed them off, forcing the price ceiling down. These same fans accept an indy publisher still selling at $3.99, because that’s just how it’s always been. Marvel, however, was raising their price out of greed, plain and simple.

I hadn’t bought comics in 7 years after Marvel hiked all their comics up from $2.25 to $2.99, but in support of DC defying Marvel’s greed and remaining at $2.99 (let’s see how long that’ll last), I preordered about 20 of their titles this month for roughly $1.80 each. The only $3.99 titles I bought were from companies like BOOM Studios or IDW.

No 22 page comic (don’t pretend like it’s 32) from Marvel or DC should be more than $2.00, period. You sealed your own fate a long time ago. Just look at those sales numbers you’re giving us. Completely pitiful numbers compared to decades past.

peace out