Another perspective on the comic...

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While delving through my comics/feminism RSS feeds, I ran across an article: Why The Anita Blake Comic Won't Succeed (And Trust Me, I Want To Be Wrong). It turns out to be less an article on the likelihood of that particular comic doing well, and more one on why the author doesn't seem to think that many women read comics at all (began commenting, then realised it was turning into an essay; life's too short, yadda yadda yadda). Nevertheless, I thought it was interesting to have a line on the comic from outside the immediate fandom, and this is a particularly ironic one since LKH seems to have added First Ever Bringer Of Comics To Wimminkind to her list of imagined accomplishments...

Comments

so, yeah, I commented:

[mneiai.livejournal.com]

I’m a female who has been reading comic books for over a decade. I don’t read romances often, but when I do the average romance novel takes me about 30 minutes to read. And I find them far less interesting than comic books, as well as far more finite, so that I have nothing to look forward to afterward. I think the idea that women won’t spend the money on comic books, because of how quickly they go, but will spend money on romance novels, is probably not quite true.

Also, I’m confused by the fact that you think that comic books start at $3.95? The average comic I read starts at $2.99 an issue. If a person reads comics in TPBs, then they can potentially save more money.

And I think the majority of your generalizations can easily be said about men, too, and why many males I know don’t read comics.

I think the ABVH books will flop because they’re off of a series that, while it would have made an awesome comic book in the beginning with the mystery plots and fight seens, is now little more than erotica. From what I’ve seen of the comic, they’re trying to mix the “sexy” Anita with a more action-filled comic, but not succeeding.