Megazell

October 31, 2012 1:35 am I grew up around comics. My mom and dad grew up around comics and my kids will grow up around comics. With that said from my weekly Wednesday pick-up chat/meets with the other comics geeks (male and female - some are old as 67 to as young as 15) ppl are purchasing comics differently. Online. One-Shots ONLY. Graphic Novels. TPBs ONLY. Using myself as an example, I only buy/get complete graphic novels. I'm more into independent comics than the big 2. I don't think I can ever go back into floopies like I use to. My oldest kid (11) reads Manga like crazy with SOME comics like Archie and Escape Goat. This kid kills 15 to 20 books a week. Old or new. It don't matter. My youngest (5) loves 2 books "Adventure Time" and "Sonic." As I converse with ppl about what and why they collect or read...I've notice that a great many of them burn out faster then before. I remember this young man came into a shop I frequented. He was super excited and buying up Spiderman soon after the Civil War storyline where Peter revealed this alter-ego on TV. This guy would come in, chat with us and go into his love of the most recent development about it....when that story was retconned...He stopped showing up. I had the luck of running into him on the other side of town by accident. Spoke to him for a bit...He was just disappointed that the books he collected and read "Never Happened." He was DONE. Comics were not for him. I saw this same phenomenon with others when the NEW 52 came up. I think the editors are making too many "Dallas" changes and over all it burns ppl out and that's why new readers don't stay.