Go, Read: Brian Hibbs On Recent Publisher-Retailer Changes
Brian Hibbs has a nice article up here on his perception as a retailer on how policies have recently changed at both DC and Marvel. It's enough of a maddening latticework of moves and efforts that some of what's going on Hibbs can only surmise from the impact on how his business is asked to do things, but it's as good an on-the-ground view as we're likely to get.