November 14, 2004
CR Sunday Magazine

All frequent comic book buyers hate comic shops at one time or another, and a renewed interest in their faults and shortcoming has surged to the forefront following substantial improvements in comics bookstore distribution. But is such complaining useful?
"Some Thoughts Outside the Comics Shop, Waiting For It to Open" argues that being brutally honest about industry issues is a necessary first step, and that the future of the comics medium will in some ways depend on confronting the problems facing its industries now. It also may prove useful to keep in mind the primordial soup of massive dysfunction from which many comics business snafus bubble up, and that business reform isn't coming anywhere but from moments of clarity and years of hard work.
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