I thought Cap was going to be the first Avengers movie out of the block? I guess they will need to remove that “First Avenger” tag from the movie’s title.

He says it takes a lot of hours to put into making a comic and this is true. But artists get their work back to sell at high page rates AFTER they’ve been paid their page rate from Marvel. Colorist and inkers can do the same but I don’t think they would get as much as the artists.

It was just last year and the year before that, that they raised the prices on titles. Next year we can expect titles to be $5.99 or $6.99. In the end it is going to hurt Marvel because in this day and age when people have to stand in lines for unemployment you just know sales will drop drastically because readers and fans can’t afford food let alone the amount of comics they normally get or want to get.<<

You can’t blame JQ. He doesn’t set the pricing directly.

Writers come from EVERYWHERE, same as artists. Joe isn’t running around with a master plan of eliminating all comics writers to replace them with Hollywood writers at BIG BUCKS. That doesn’t make fiscal sense.

As a small publisher, I can assure you that it DOES take a lot of hours to make a comic. What you’re NOT aware of, apparently, is that not every artist sells their original work (or is required to). In fact, not all artists even GOT their work returned until the mid-80′s. The page rate (or in our case, a percentage of sales) is what they work for. Some artists (INCLUDING colorists and inkers) work exclusively digital (on computer), meaning there is no “original work” to be returned or sold. I was just talking to Brian Bolland about that very thing at NYCC. He does all his work on a computer with a Wacom drawing tablet, so now there’s no more “originals”.

No publisher WANTS to raise prices. We want to raise SALES. This economy is tough right now, and comics are not a necessity. Sales drop, we have to raise prices or perish. Let’s hope things turn around in the near future.

He says it takes a lot of hours to put into making a comic and this is true. But artists get their work back to sell at high page rates AFTER they’ve been paid their page rate from Marvel. Colorist and inkers can do the same but I don’t think they would get as much as the artists.

It was just last year and the year before that, that they raised the prices on titles. Next year we can expect titles to be $5.99 or $6.99. In the end it is going to hurt Marvel because in this day and age when people have to stand in lines for unemployement you just know sales will drop drastically because readers and fans can’t afford food let alone the amount of comics they normally get or want to get.