Now that the direct market is officially dead, what's next for the comic industry?

That'd be smart. They should also be putting out magazines that feature four or five new comics, Shonen Jump style.

Diamond might end up dying. The Big Two might take huge setbacks. That doesn't mean other companies don't exist and won't come up with ways around all this.

digital.

>Kickstarter
but that's where legendary creators come to die

>Diamond might end up dying
which is going to kill the direct market

Only the ones who have been making spite comics.

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The ratio of people pirating in general has gone down quite a bit. People pay to watch TV and movies they could just pirate.

Man, do you hope to have a discussion here? Mad man, this is a tumblr board and all what you can get here is a denial of reality.

>tfw you actually enjoyed collecting comics and if it dies you will actually be sad

You don't think any other companies might try to seize this opportunity? The direct market existed before Diamond, too.

It won't die. It'll evolve.

People pay 8 bucks a month to stream unlimited content. Comics cost $4-$5 per 20 page book, so unless they become much more affordable digital won't save anything.

Mind you, piracy rates have gone back up now that every tom dick and harry wants to do their own streaming service. It's not just the money driving people to piracy either. It's the lack of convenience. You go to Netflix, Amazon Prime, Hulu, Disney Plus, and fucking Paramount, and STILL can't find the movie you wanted? Fuck this shit, I'm pirating it, AND I'm pirating the next five things I want to watch while I'm at it. Fuuuuuck you greedy assholes all wanting to do your own thing.

What'm I looking at here?

Comic book stores were already hanging on by a thread before being forced to close indefinitely. Who is going to buy books from the distributors when there are no more niche specialty stores?

Only after it dies, as long as Marvel and DC are alive nothing will changes.

Doesn't DC unlimited work with a model similar to streaming services?

Have they? I mean they should have but have the factually?

I'm guessing it's a strip mall that once had a failed comic book shop.

They really need to go this route. Put issues out online, give some for free, and offer paid services. And as much as I enjoy collecting floppies, honestly only selling physical copies of TPBs is probably the way to go

The American comic market will disappear
Superheroes will live on in the and movies for a decade or two granted in a rapidly decreasing manner
Then the world will move on and nobody will remember it
Manga will keep being manga, people will still buy it, hell it may take the place superheroes left behind with all these tv services
European comics will still be a niche for pedophiles and other manner of degenerates

Then they'll have to start selling them at more than just niche stores.

>spite store
>When a place of business angers you, so you open a competing store out of spite.
>Mocha Joe's cafe served me cold coffee, so I'm opening a spite store right next door called Latte Larry's.

Or, American comics companies will adopt the Manga business model.

If you're talking about the US market, manga doesn't really sell for shit compared to US comics. And If you're talking about the global market, Eurocomics aren't niche.

Where tho?

Piracy is just an excuse for degenerates. People pirate manga, but it thrives because manga is not bogged down in political correctness and does its job - entertaining people well. So the main reason why the comic book is dying is sjw cancer has taken over the industry and nothing else.

>People pirate manga, but it thrives
Not in the US.

Target, Walmart, mall kiosks, Hot Topic, Think Geek, Gamestop, movie theaters, bookstores

did it take much practice learning to deepthroat boots like that?

What you call manga practice is what existed in the comic book industry long before manga. So it's just a return to the origins.

OK, cool

Walmart just recently tried selling comics and it failed spectacularly.

Nice nice safe space you got here, it would be a shame if someone uses the facts and destroys it.
andyarttv.com/manga-is-outselling-comic-booksdc-and-marvel-in-america/

>Gamestop

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Their way of doing it sucked. You can get three Marvel comics in a shrink-wrapped bundle. You can only see the front one, and the other two are just random and have nothing to do with the first.

Why not

It's from Curb Your Enthusiasm, Larry David literally opened an identical competing business to spite Mocha Joe's.

The greatest spite business I can think of is Megadeth

there's maybe a dozen good books that Diamond distributes a year, most comics worth reading are bought directly from artists websites, etsys, gumroads or small press publishers/stores
support art and comix
retards in spandex aren't worth crying over

You are really behind the curve

>literally no sales figures
It's not even competent fake news.
comicsbeat.com/tilting-at-windmills-274-looking-at-bookscan-for-2018/

I haven't been to a physical store to buy anything for myself in nearly a decade. I buy everything online.

Why?

Because they can barely survive by selling the far more lucrative video games at this point.

cnbc.com/2019/09/16/gamestop-is-closing-up-to-200-stores-and-could-close-even-more.html

Yeah, superhero comics need better online distribution, for sure.

Dude, you do know that Gamestop itself is already struggling, right? It's not dying as bad as comic book shops, but it's been struggling badly.

Gamestop is gonna look at the state of the comic book industry and take a big NOPE to doing business there.

I've been saying for a while now that the comic book industry has needed to change the way they do comics. They need to stop this sale of floppies and follow the Japanese Jump model of comics.

Gamestop needs to further diversify. Offer retro and tabletop gaming. They're too stuck in their business model.

Alright, fair enough.

>can't survive by selling a massively popular hobby
>take on more expensive and more niche hobby inventory
I can tell you've never owned a business.

That bill congress just passe dis supposed to bail out small businesses so they may survive.

To be fair I'm also a horribly crippling introvert and the idea of being in a crowded condense area now fills me with dread.

A massively popular hobby that is becoming more and more digital only, thus rendering them obsolete.

Not him but
>massively popular hobby has dozens of competing avenues of distibution
>niche hobby doesn't
Don't pretend you have. If there was a steam (and GoG, and Epic Game Store, and PS/XBOX online stores, ...) for comics, sure that would be somewhat comparable.

Nice trips, btw

There is though

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This. Also, tabletop gaming has seen a big renaissance lately.