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By: Moco

Moco — Sun, 10 May 2009 17:32:04 +0000

As a Borders employee, I can tell why the Graphic Novels sections have shrunk and the Manga has grown…sales.
Every day, several people come in, stack the graphic novels up in the Cafe, read them, then leave without buying one.
Do this repeatedly and they start to look shopworn so when the actual paying customer comes in, the graphic novels don’t get purchased.
Manga still sells well to teen girls and boys. They seem to have the dollars to purchase their favorite series.

By: Shaun

Shaun — Thu, 07 May 2009 22:33:25 +0000

That Star Trek article was hilarious… I have a few of the old Gold Key issues, and they’re bad (but hilarious). Then again, the Marvel run from the late 70′s/early 80′s was crap too. I still have fond memories of DC’s Trek run, and I still have the books! I should break those out again, as most of them were actually pretty good (esp. anything Peter David wrote). I’d like to get that DVD ROM set that came out last year of every Trek comic published (up until IDW, that is).

By: Shaun

Shaun — Thu, 07 May 2009 22:18:39 +0000

I just had to click on the link to “I Love Rob Liefeld” to see if it was a joke or not. Amazingly, it’s not.

By: Shaun

Shaun — Thu, 07 May 2009 22:15:51 +0000

While I don’t understand the appeal of manga, I understand that it does have great appeal to many. The Borders near my office has dramatically shrunk the regular comics (for lack of a better term) graphic novels/trade paperbacks area, while the manga portion has grown by about four times what it was. As for the sales list, I’d say it has a lot to do with the lack of quality stuff from the Big Two these days.

By: Kevin Melrose

Kevin Melrose — Thu, 07 May 2009 15:31:21 +0000

It's not the Watchmen book charts; it's the book/graphic-novel charts. It just happens that Watchmen, and Naruto, appears on most of them.

By: Martin Gray

Martin Gray — Thu, 07 May 2009 15:26:39 +0000

When will we be free of the constant Watchmen book charts updates? It sold well to comic fans, then it sold better to film fans and now it’s selling less well. The end.