Anonymous asked:
brevoortformspring answered:
Like all Marvel books, it’s intended for whomever has the cover price and wants to read it.
And then they wonder why they have problems getting sales.
Knowing your audience is kind of important to this sort of business
……Seriously, at what point do Disney just pile in and say the following:
‘You’re talking smack to the paying customers, your business practices have seen readers leave in droves since we bought you. The last good thing you had was Star Wars, which we gave you. You keep messing around with the characters in such a way that there now has to be a separate Spidey comic just so people can read the property as they expect to understand him, and the only way you’ve held your share of the marketplace is your badly run variant incentive scheme, which no other publisher does anymore because most people aren’t that stupid anymore. You came up with some haphazard bullshit reason to cancel the Fantastic Four books when you have other books that sell even less than FF did that you keep pushing.
‘You’re done. We own this company, and we’ll be running the Marvel comics division from now on. You’ve had several chances, and you keep blowing it. Secret Wars was the last straw, and you tried to blame the negative feedback for the fact that you couldn’t get nine issues of a comic sorted in two years on the readers and the retailers. Go home and argue whether Squirrel Girl could fight the Maestro as much as you want from now on.’
I used to dread corporate buy-outs for fear they’d take over the company and remove the original staff. Now that day can’t come fast enough.
frasier-crane-style