I increasingly get a sense of the comics industry going through my trashcan like raccoons in the dead of the night… That’s a good image, isn’t it? They weren’t even particularly good ideas.
We are seeing the death of comics publishing as we know it.
Pick up those ideas and do something new with them. Make them shine again. But, I think that it’s been a long time since the comics industry had any talent that was capable of doing that.
I tend to see the people who run the comics industry as being largely like some variety of tapeworm or some other parasite. But, they’re not very good at it. Any self-respecting tapeworm or parasite never kills the host.
I very seriously doubt whether the comics industry as we know it is going to be here in even five years’ time.
I think the lights are going out all over the comics industry. A lot of this is the fault of the publishers, a lot of it is the fault of the artists and writers, and I think, as you say, some of it is the fault of the readers.
there was something poignant about that that was almost saying perhaps superheroes would have been best left in those three decades—the ‘40s to the ‘60s—where they made sense and where they were most at home.
