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February 6, 2012 10:47 am Why are you making false accusations? What names have I called you?

February 6, 2012 10:28 am Your lack of comprehension is astounding. You are now trying to put words in my mouth! My original comment was "LOTR was popular in a big way before the movies. It is after all the best-selling english-language book from the 20th century. The movies just made it popular in a big, big, big way." From that comment you can see I've definately been arguing that the movies had no demonstrable effect on its popularity. Not. Your original comment in the article states that it took the movies for lotr to become 'popular in a big way'. It is an idiotic thing to say. The best-selling english-language book from the 20th century needed the movies to become 'popular in a big way'? Don't think so. The movies may have elevated it to a rarified air status of popularity, but even if they did not exist it would still be 'popular in a big way'.

February 6, 2012 9:12 am For anything.

February 5, 2012 4:52 pm Yes. But you said originally that it took the movies for it to become 'popular in a big way'. It was always 'popular in a big way' even if there were no movies.

February 4, 2012 2:19 pm Firstly, it was Josh's reply. Secondly, read it again. Josh is saying it took the movies release to make lotr popular in a big way.

February 4, 2012 6:55 am LOTR was popular in a big way before the movies. It is after all the best-selling english-language book from the 20th century. The movies just made it popular in a big, big, big way.

December 6, 2011 3:03 pm @Conor. You're right. Some DC books sell more than double that of Aquaman. Some sell less than half. I know it's the gross revenue in that example where Joshua mistakenly said profit... Do you think it costs the DC machine more than the hypothetical $47k to make a single issue of Aquaman?

December 6, 2011 2:23 pm Didn't say it wasn't. Last I heard the UK added around 10% to the total. The main point was the 700 issues thing. Marvel was making something like $10 million profit a quarter from its publishing division alone a couple of years ago. Not sure what the state of play is today.

December 6, 2011 11:29 am @Maty. DC publishes something like 700 issues a year... That figure also only includes North American sales.

November 16, 2011 5:57 pm It's funny that you bring this up since iFanboy was the first place that I recall (in my not so many years) that emphasised the difference between medium and genre when talking about comics.