ICv2.com: DHC’s Blade of the Immortal #131 Last In Comic Book Format

The comics business and news analysis site ICv2.com has an interview up with Dark Horse Comics' Philip Simon about that company's last traditional comic book formatted manga series publication, Blade of the Immortal #131, and what it means for the company in terms of production and the like to keep the trade series going without these comics books coming first.

All that stuff might be compelling in a wonky way, but it's probably just worth noting that DHC is leaving behind the comic book format for these works. That has to mean something, although deciding actually what it means is a scary proposition given comics' recent tendency to wheeze and make proclamations at the drop of a hat. It's not the end of an era, really. The sales superiority of the trade format became unquestioned years ago, but this does put some notions into my head about at least the conventional wisdoms that used to surround comic book formatted manga translations: that comics fans appreciated the lower point of entry represented by a cheaper, smaller unit for sale, and that there was an audience that might not take to specifics in trade format. It also makes me wonder if this isn't an early granite marker on what may in the next several years become an expansive graveyard for that general, classic mode of presentation.
 
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