What will happen after quarantine ends?

They've got four months or more

>How long will it take for industry/Diamond/LCS to resume operation?
This is assuming quarantine is lifted in both the US and Canada, where the bulk of the printing is done, and publishers have books ready to go to print. Diamond will have to assess the damage done to both retail and publishing, and likely give those stores that survived time to revise orders, if not completely cancel all purchase orders. Considering the time to revise orders at retail, the time for Diamond to collect and issue new POs, and time to print and ship, it's probably 3-4 more weeks before you see any new books.

This is ridiculous. They should just distribute digitally in the mean time as a temporary stop gap. We should not be forced to wait like this because of pissy retailers. Even in the most ludicrous best case scenario, were looking at 2-3 months? What if this continues to go on even longer? What if it goes on until next year? At what point do the publishers break down and just put out the content they're sitting on digitally or some other way?

They're trying not to let the shutdown kill LCS' but they're going to fail.

This correction has been a long time coming, a 6+ month shutdown is just the final nail in the coffin.

I know. I called them pissy retailers. I want the stories I was excited for and I want them sooner, rather than later, or even worse, never. When are they going to face reality and give up on this lost cause?

This pissy retailers is the only reason why comics are alive. On the other hand, they deserve this fate for always being the money slaves of Big 2.

It will be digital singles --> print trades. The only way there will be print floppies is if the companies set up some kind of mail order print-on-demand service for collectors who can't give up their bag-and-board habit, as a way to still take their money without the expensive infrastructure of distributors/stores. If there are still stores, they'll be primarily Funko Pops and TTG with a shelf of trades like most record stores.

They shouldn't be. The american comics market never should have let itself become such a niche hobby unlike Europe and Japan. And those direct market isn't likely to survive this regardless of how you feel about. The publishers are going to have to find a new way to produce and distribute material longterm. In the meantime I want what was suppose to come out.

>This pissy retailers is the only reason why comics are alive
Nah, Diamond and retailers desperately trying to hold on to a closed market is why comics have been so shit for so long in terms of sales. People don't fucking go to LCS', they only buy trades at fucking Barnes and Nobles.

Instant-publication via the internet should've been made the main focus for a decade now.

Sure kid, want to also tell me about how Smash for the Switch is only a port?

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The fact that most comics are still published in the same format they were in 1935 should have been a big clue. The 'rona is the wake-up call that's been in the mail for a loooong time.

The only reason why comics are alive is because the stores bought everything under the contract "Buy everything and at least X pieces or we won't sell you anything".

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It'll en eventually, but when? There are people saying this could last in waves into fall of next year. You have to be delusional to think this will be over by easter at this point.

No. Most comics back in the forties were 52-64 page anthologies printed on cheap paper and were thought as disposable media. Instead of gradually increasing the price publisher's reduced the amount of material until it reached the point of 22 page single features. Then they began raising the prices. Then as comics shifted from mass market disposable entertainment to collector's items the the price increae ramped up as production cost increased(Writers and artists expecting being payed more, using better quality paper and printing) and the number of people buying the books shrank.

Digital will be fine as its the only thing that stays operational. For physical however will depend on postal service operational, and then there's comic book stores. Other then that, digital will be fine

I should amend this by saying that this is the optimistic timetable for the big two. Given Diamond's convoluted plan to stretch out vendor payments over several months (presumably so they could extend credit to retailers), this may mean an even longer delay for the lower-tier publishers who literally live check-to-check. They need full payment to print the next issue. Prepare for some titles to become Kickstarters.
I hear ya. From the start, I think retailers have been too concerned about protecting print-first exclusivity, and not thinking about what happens after the quarantine. Without releasing digitally and keeping artists and writers working continuously, retailers are losing product depth that they will not get back at the end of the year. There is a limit to how quickly artists can draw and writers can write.

The question is when/if they're going to resume digital without diamond at this point.

Please please please let the comics industry not change a damn thing after this economic crisis and go right back to the status quo.

The quicker it dies, the quicker a viable phoenix can rise from the ashes.

Well if local comic shops all die off then they may take the comic industry with them. Especially Marvel and DC as they aren't that good at digital distribution.

youtube.com/watch?v=09KjpwQGZKA

So... you want it not to die so it can die?

>ClownfishTV

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Marvel and DC are going to be just fine. In addition to comixology they have their own digital archive services. DC also has the Walmart/Target Giants and their YA OGN bookstore distributed lines.

Both are true.

It'll be interesting to see how the market corrects over the next few months, as what could have been a gradual shift has now become an inevitable and massive overcorrection.

>another claims that comics will selling well without being able to impose conditions on buyers.
Yeah, of course.

Oh, they're going to have to change. They'll actually have to sell thing on stories instead of #1s,landmark numbers,events,variant covers out the wazoo other gimmicks, not being able to flood the market. Which I don't give a shit about because I actually like to follow things because of story. But DC and Marvel aren't going to simply disappear. It's very unlikely they'll be shutdown by their parent companies entirely, and even if they were they'd find someone to license the rights to print new material to(likely a non comic book company.)

never.
i'm just going to go rape my lcs (the ones that haven't closed) and strong arm them into giving me some deals on older comics (80's-90's).

LCS retailers are so retarded, I bet that they'd demand DC and Marvel to continue their operations with Diamond after the quarantine.

>Oh, they're going to have to change
They have not changed in the past so I don't think they will change in the future, they will just blame white men as usual and suck up Disney and WB money.

Disney is hurting bad right now, I don't think they can just throw money at things anymore.

If Diamond doesn't come back and there aren't enough comic book stores, it'll literally be change or die. It's not a matter of clinging to prolonging a business model suffering entropy. Death of the direct market is imminent thanks to Corona accelerating things.

>stop being sjw or die
>Marvel and DC

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Who said anything about SJW? I'm referring to distribution. I just want the comics was anticipating before the shutdown to come out.

ClownfishTV? Fuck you for bringing that joke here

>What will happen after quarantine ends?
Which will be when, exactly? Now they're talking about this going into late May.

Diamond is just stalling until they can file for bankruptcy. They ain't coming back

>There are people saying this could last in waves into fall of next year
Those people also have no idea and are just speculating. The quarantine will last until the virus has reached its peak and then died down to a manageable level. Hopefully by the time if/when it returns, there will be a vaccine readily available so this won't happen again until the Chinese remove the ban on eating rabid dogs and develop a new virus in their disgusting shitty bodies.

Since this is business they may have to. Diamond will still deal with physical distributions, and for more deliveries once postal service are operational. But this whole virus thing has put thtem in a position were they may have to change and focus on more digital sales and production. That would also mean giving artist some equipment to produce more content at their own homes to keep their business afloat. And readers are now getting their comics on digital more since they can't go out, and its more safer for them

Digital will now get more attention since they can just sell it directly to their customers without Diamond if they want to keep their business running. If Diamond is unable to operate itself, or would need more time until it becomes fully operational, then digital will now become more mainstream as more income will be brought with included VAT. However, but would pu comic book stores at risk if they got nothing to sell once postal services are resuming. Will be good for comic book companies, but not comic book stores

So DC's giving pencils down orders on Black Label and 5G projects now apparently.
Not good.

Funny you mention that, China is already starting to come out with laws regarding the consumption of wild animals and dogs, one city has already banned the practice entirely

How do you think changing distribution will help sell sjw crap?

sjw retard detected

no media is perfect. they do a somewhat good job or can you tell me better media that isnt biased and can criticise the industry.

Stop trying to make this about politics. I want my books.

I just want my floppies

The comic industry made this about politics when they let identitarians create books. They sent their old fans away so they could chase new ones. Dont expect the old fans to feel sorry for the industry now they they're falling from the ledge.

>What will happen after quarantine ends?
WAR!
youtube.com/watch?v=Z42wIuAf1lo

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Okay. You're bitter against the whole industry. I've had my problems with certain books/characters and SJWism caused problems, but I still had things I was enjoying before this. Not everybody has been burned to the same extent as you.

Don't pretend that forced agenda aren't the reason why comics are crap.

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They aren't "resuming" anything, dude.

You do realize the American comic book industry literally does not exist anymore, right? They literally stopped making comics permanently. This isn't a joke, dude. You don't seem to have grasped that this is real yet.

Even if you remove politics trom the comics, they will still be outdated trash. And to fix this is extremely difficult, you have to give creative freedom to young talent, which is not in the list of options of Marvel and DC.

Fun fact: Total deaths from diseases this year are DOWN. And (in the US) DRAMATICALLY so. Having corona actually makes you unable to get a number of other diseases that are even deadlier. This entire "shutdown" is unnecessary and isn't preventing anyone from getting sick. All its doing is reducing the burden on hospitals. In the long run the shutdown will do more harm that the virus will.

How come all the newspapers and magazines can get printed and Marvel/DC can't?

So 5G is cancelled?

Is that why DiDio was fired? Because WB didn't approve of rebooting AGAIN?

Not that it matters anyway. Anyone who thinks they're going to ever publish anything again is delusional.

You get rid of the direct market there'll be nowhere to sell comics PERIOD. If you seriously think ANY store would EVER even consider carrying comics then you are out of touch with reality. Comics are the lowest form of all media and NO store would EVER touch them. They'd attract the worst possible customers and would be VERY BAD for business.

Some comics, yes. But not all. despite what your angry youtube people tell you not everything is pic related. You gators need to stop pretending this is all about you. Or at least go full conservative fundamentalist and start claiming Corona is God's Judgement on the liberal industry.

What part of I want the books I was promised before this do you not understand

No they haven't. The publishers need to grasp the LCS market isn't going to exist and start publishing digitally again.

Walmart and Target are selling DC Giants, bookstores carry trades and OGNs, and Archie still gets their digests in supermarket checkouts.