The Comics Industry’s Unsexiest Issue

Here's a great example about how the network of direct market comic book stores may be on the thin side and why this is a concern. A Lewiston, Maine pop culture retailer seems to have picked up comics because the small city's comic book store has apparently closed down. Great news, of course, except that someone had to have stepped in or residents of the second biggest city in the state would have to drive an hour a more to look at comics. One also has no idea as to the depth and breadth of the new store's commitment to the product line, which one supposes by all logical standards is modest -- I wouldn't dare prescribe otherwise. If like me you believe in the comic book model as one of many effective ways to sell comics to people, the thought of such stores continuing to blink off of a US big board should cause some concern. Is enough being done to ensure basic coverage? We know that comics can survive off the newsstands, but will comics survive off the newsstands and off of Main Street?
 
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