What do you say to people who still think comics are for kids?
That they are living in the past. If there’s one big problem the comics industry has is that kids DO NOT read comics anymore. Sure, there are a few kid-friendly titles but comics as a medium wouldn’t survive without a hard-core readership of people in their 30s-50s. Comics are simply too difficult and not exciting enough compared to mobile apps, videos and other portable games/internet access.
What do you think about Comicstorian?
I love his videos personally!Don’t get me wrong, if you want to read and fully comprehend a comic, go for it! But his voice is very entertaining to hear when watching him read these comics, with his occasional, albeit cringe but loveable, humour in his videos making it all the more fun to watch!I don’t know too much about his stance on SJW’s ruining comics and stuff, I don’t really have a stance on it either, so I can’t judge him as others have! All I do is watch his vids ;)Been loving his beard recently though! XD
What do you think about digital comics?
I recently got the large iPad Pro and it has been a revelation for reading comics. It was great reading comics on my standard iPad but there were compromises as the text was just a little too small. All the clever ways of moving from panel to panel just never felt the same as experiencing the full page as they'd been designed. With the iPad Pro, every comic is a glorious, super sized, deluxe edition. It's even better than a standard comic. Digital comics helped bring me back to comics and I have to believe will be a big boon to the industry in the long run. Not only can they be gorgeous, they should allow for cheaper experimentation, leading to bolder bets on amazing stories for niche audiences. And the ease of distribution will hopefully help bring more people into comics in general.
How much are these comics worth?
Go to ebay and see what those titles are selling for in similar condition to yours. You can also check the Overstreet Comic Book Price guide which is THE price guide for comics. However Overstreet has a tendency to both over value newer comics and under value some older comics. Ebay is probably the best way to see what you can realisticly get for most any item
What do you think of Bal Narendra comic books?
This is not the first or only time when political leaders of our country were immortalized with comic books.Sycophancy shows the weakness of the leader.The fact that the followers think, that the leader can be pleased by creating songs, slogans, videos, comics, books etc simply shows the respect they have for the intelligence of their leader.
How much can i get for these comics for?
These are hugely overpriced. You want $40 for the Avengers? Somebody has one on eBay, bagged and boarded, with a starting bid of a buck and a 'buy it now' of $1.49 No one has bid on it yet. Shipping is $3.75. I didn't bother with any of the others but Penguin, but you'll find the same thing. The only Penguin that sold was also mint. It sold for $1.49 with $3.00 shipping. If you shipped them all together, that would save the person buying them some money and they could pay a little more for each comic, assuming they wanted all seven. You might get $3 each, on a really, really good day. The problem is that you were not alone in thinking that these comics would be worth a lot of money in 15-20 years. What makes something rare and valuable is that not very many of something was saved and kept in great shape. Back in 1939, how many people thought, "Hey, I should take this brand new superhero Superman comic book that cost me five cents (when five cents was really worth something - people earned not much more than a dollar or two a day and a new car cost less than a thousand dollars) and never read it, just put it away for the next 70 years and get a million for it." The answer is, nobody. One first-edition Superman did sell for over a million not too long ago. It wasn't in mint condition but it was pretty nice. But, how it survived in that condition did NOT start out with somebody thinking about how much it would be worth someday. It was an accident. Hundreds and thousands of people putting away the same thing in mint condition will never add up to a lot of money, unless there are more people who want whatever it is than there is what was put away. That is not the case with comic books.
Why do you like comics?
I like comics because they’re unique. They’re not books, but they use the printed word and oftentime prose in how they tell a story. They’re not TV or cinema, but they use pictures and a sense of motion. The fact that they’re created by a writer and/or an art team means that they’re not limited by the budget of animation or TV in terms of exactly what they can portray on the age.The other thing to consider is that comics are far more than the scope of the notes for your question. Superheroes are the biggest sector of the US direct market, but they’re not the be-all and end-all of comics, or even movie adaptations of comics. Since the year 2000, there have been adaptations of more than 70 non-superhero english-language comics, compared to a little more than 140 superhero ones.It’s true that Marvel and DC’s continuity is frequently baroque and hard to understand from an outsider’s perspective, especially as DC has “soft rebooted” theirs a number of times and Marvel have started to do that too. But take a look outside their spaces and you’ll find a hell of a lot of good, accessible stuff. Take a look at Valiant, Image and IDW in the US market to begin with.
Comics are they a waste of money?
If you're buying comics solely as an investment, then you're going to be disappointed. I used to run a comic shop in the 90s (right before the crash). Every day there would be a customer coming up to my counter with a new comic he picked off the shelf and asking me, "Is this going to be worth a lot of money?" Well, I thought to myself, I'll just go call Dionne my psychic friend and ask her. One customer even had the audacity to ask me to pull comics from each week's shipment I thought would be worth hundreds of dollars a year from now (or then in that case). If I knew that for sure, does he really think I would put them out on the shelf brand new for cover price? Greed tends to cloud one's common sense, that is, if he had any to begin with. I never encouraged customers to buy comics in the hopes that they will be able to put themselves through college from the future resale of them. As for eBay, I've tried selling on there with limited success. I will say this; anything published within the last 25 years (with a very few exceptions) is mostly likely not going to sell, unless the opening bid is abysmally small or you're selling a run of 10, 20, etc.. But rule of thumb when collecting comics is: buy what you enjoy; any monetary gain on resale should be secondary if at all.
What do you think of the “Non Sequitur” comic strip who put "go f**k yourself" into the drawing aimed at Trump?
I think he messed up. Now, let me be clear, I am 100% for freedom of speech, and my sentiments about Trump are very similar. I believe he has a right to include whatever he darn well pleases in his art, including this.However, this wasn’t just a piece of art. This was a comic strip published in the Sunday funnies of major newspapers. You know who reads those comic sections? Kids.I remember reading each and every comic strip in the newspapers my grandpa bought when I was a kid, including strips I didn’t really understand, like “Dilbert” or “Mallard Fillmore”. There’s probably a good chance that some kid would have noticed that scribble, and either asked their parents about it, or internalized it. I don’t care how bad Trump is, do we really want to have our kids thinking that this is how you talk about politics? They pay attention to what we do, and they imitate it.Granted, the author claims it was a dumb mistake that he didn’t mean to include. Even if that’s not true, it’s really not that big of a deal. The world will still go round. Still, that doesn’t make it right, and the author was right to apologize.