I agree that it got them a bit of mainstream attention, but I don't know how that translated into a "big" spike in sales.

The last time I brought up the possibility of bringing down the paper quality to reduce prices, someone responded that it would actually cost more because fewer paper companies carry the cheaper stock. This is, of course, bullshit. Every two bit city in the world has a newspaper and someone is selling them newsprint.

Sure, and I believe WB would face a huge backlash if they attempted to end what is truly a cultural institution.

What I'm trying to figure out is the stupid numbering they've been using lately. Like slapping a big #1 on the cover of a book that's on issue 17 just because it's a new story arc. Why don't they just give each book a 1 year run to do one big story and then do it again the next year if that's how they want it?

This is another reason why Marvel and DC can't drum up these new readers they want so bad. The only people that will pay this much to follow these complex stories are the ones that have been doing it for years already and many of them are getting priced out of the hobby.

Especially at $4-$5 a pop.

Why don't they remove the facemask and tackle with their shoulder like they used to in the stone age?

Does anyone think removing the facemask would cut down on guys going for these type of dangerous hits? I realize it sounds weird, but before helmets were made to be so impact resistant players were taught to tackle with their shoulders.

I certainly don't think a wrestler's dick pic is at all relevant to much of anything, but it's at least as relevant as much of the crap that Deadspin puts out there most of the time.

As a former purveyor of toys and smut, I recommend Astroglide. And it's not going to fuck up your sheets.

Ok+1 for this advice. My ex and I were together for 7 years and anal was a regular part of our sex life. I managed a porn shop at the time so I had access to all the necessary items like plugs and lube.

Who here called it a sport? Deadspin covers all kinds of shit that is only vaguely (at best) related to sports. Pro wrestling is an athletic activity and closer to a sport than some of the shit I see on this site.

And it isn't a generations long part of Mexican popular culture either.

Suite? Like a fancy hotel room?

Wow, next you're gonna tell me that Jet Li wasn't really fighting anyone in those movies and that Robert Downey Jr doesn't have a high tech suit of crime fighting armor.

DCs best selling books are not a drop in the bucket for Warner. The comics themselves make almost nothing for their bottom line compared to everything else they own. Marvel and DC both could stop publishing comics tomorrow and make 100 times as much off of movie and TV properties with the characters.

I love how the comics people think everyone is looking for an entry point into these series. Do you think most people that read comics got into them right when they started? If you picked up an issue of X-Men in 1988, did you become so confused that you had to go back to the Lee-Kirby run to make sense of it? No.

I don't really think it's got a lot to do with the fans as much as it is fans that become comic professionals. Nobody wanted Barry Allen to come back. Everyone had moved past Hal Jordan. Their mantle had been passed and the fans loved Wally and they loved Rayner. Geoff Johns' nostalgia fetish is why they came back.

And the mythical "new reader".

Yes, but time doesn't pass like that in the comics. There's a month between issues and the stories often continue directly from the previous issue. So there's going to be some trickery with time.