Hehe.

And for the record, it's harder to put British comics upright than American ones, they are taller, thinner and even more floppy.

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Thought about this some more. I think a future I'd be happy with is that individual issues are available primarily or almost entirely digitally, but collected editions are published when the run finishes. I don't care too much for individual comics, but I love collected editions. I'd be upset if they became less prevalent.

I'd be interested to know how much money there is in new, individual issues vs. reprints in collected form. Of the people I know who read comics (Not many), very few of them regularly fork out for individual issues but often buy TPBs and the like.

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I think long term the industry is going to have to look for a mixed solution here. Continue charging what they're charging for physical comics and release those first, then release digital comics that are priced at what the comics cost before they're printed and distributed not long after, then after 30 days the digital comic becomes a dollar(essentially the company would be saying we've made most of our profit at this point but we want to encourage people to read the product.) then at some point the comic becomes available in both Trade Paperback and on the Digital Subscription site( Like Marvel Comics Unlimited.). Essentially it would split the market into the people that want things right away and the people that are willing to wait and it would set price points that both those types of people could live with. Also they shouldn't raise prices for like 10 years or so.

Also while they're at it. Make the digital comics more user friendly. Find a way to let offline people carry a certain number of comics with them(I'd reup with Marvel Comics Unlimited if they would allow me to carry say 50 cbr files that will expire in 7 days or so at a time). A lot of the reason I went to pirating was I just flat out preferred the file formatting(ComicRack is cool) and I often find myself bored and far away from an internet connection.

So I just discovered through the inflation calculator that Comics have gone up in price by about 4 times the rate of inflation. If you figure a comic cost .12 in 1965 a comic should cost right around .82 today. No wonder the industry is in such a mess.

that doesn't take into account any of the changes in quality... paper quality, inks, COLORS, or the time needed to make them at this higher level of quality.

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Do not bore me with such trite cliches. For I have you in my clutches, and should I choose, I could snuff out your insignificant lives in an instant.

You could make the same argument for Cars(Pretty much have matched inflation), Movies(Should be 7.29 a ticket if they followed the curve of inflation), and other media. There are very few products that have risen in price at 4 times the rate of everything else over the last 45 years.

Regardless even if you buy into the argument that quality has improved that much(enough that in 1965 these comics would be sold for 5 times what the comics of the day were) you have to admit that when the price of something rises that rapidly in comparison to everything else people will be priced out of the market.