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May 15, 2013 9:34 pm If I looked like that I'd never wear a shirt in the first place.

May 15, 2013 9:33 pm I... I... I don't know if I want to watch now.

May 15, 2013 5:09 pm And it's perfectly okay to be a big Superman fan from just the movies or TV shows or cartoons or whatever. There's nothing wrong with it.

May 15, 2013 12:43 pm That Michael Jordan analogy only works if Jordan also appeared in other places on a regular basis that were far more popular than basketball.

May 14, 2013 6:20 pm I'm not joking. "Just deal with it and don't worry about it" is the best way to handle comic book resurrection.

May 13, 2013 9:39 pm "The REALLY frustrating thing? Wondering why DC can manage to put out several of these per year – usually really solid if not stellar – yet can’t seem to get the tone, character or even decent story for their live-action stuff? (I hope Man of Steel is a turning point for that though!(" It's two completely different departments at Warner Bros. (not DC) run by different people. But it's still frustrating.

May 13, 2013 9:34 pm @bub64882: Comixology is a middleman just like Diamond-- they too take their cut (and so does Apple if you use their app, and it's substantial). Most publishers don't have the resources to also act as distributors. As BC1 said, Marvel tried to do it themselves in the 1990s and it was such a disaster that it almost brought down the whole industry.

May 13, 2013 8:17 pm @TurdSandwich: You're basically right, except for the numbers. The price on the cover isn't what the company makes on the sale, otherwise the comic book store wouldn't make a profit and neither would Diamond. Diamond buys the books from the publishers (based on stores orders) at a deep discount off the cover price. The stores buy the books from Diamond at a discount off the cover price, and then sell them to you at cover price.

May 13, 2013 6:16 pm DC Comics and Image Comics are different companies with completely different business models. DC pays a page rate to the writer, penciller, inker, colorist, and letterer. (Not to mention editors, assistant editors, and production people who need to get paid.) With Image Comics, the comic book creators do the work on spec and only make money from the sales of the comics, taking the proceeds for themselves to divide up after Image gets their publishing fee. An Image book can be profitable to all involved at drastically lower numbers than a Marvel or DC book.

May 13, 2013 6:05 pm http://ifanboy.com/title/threshold/