Go, Read: Abhay Khosla On Industry Armageddon

Someone sent me two links from occasional industry commentator and critic Abhay Khosla about the notion that one important comics market, the Direct Market of hobby and comics shops that so strongly serves superhero comics, is broken. I always read Khosla, because he's not invested in the same way that most generally interested people writing about comics are invested. The second linked-to piece, where he challenges the notion that the cancelled Nighthawk comic was worth gaming the system to save, is a point of view very few have offered up in their rush to make sweeping judgments about the general nature of a certain kind of comics sales. (This implied criticism excludes the original commentator, Jude Terror, and definitely includes me.)

The notion that still sticks out to me is the idea whether or not Marvel and DC in particular can be counted on as market leaders shaping consumer behavior when they have a system in place that protects and supports them to the point there's advantage in at least briefly selling comics that likely have no chance for long-time market survival, direct-order goosing or not. If most businesses and most readers of all types and most of where the art is, if that's all better served by a different model, the current model should be supplemented immediately in a way that facilitates the best overall outcome. It could be a system worth working against, not supporting to the brink of irrationality.
 
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