Archives to the Rescue?

Brian C. Poole
5 min readJan 23, 2023

Sale numbers of new comic books aren’t good.

Marvel, DC and other North American publishers of traditional comics have seen unit sales drop dramatically, while losing significant sales ground to manga collections and YA graphic novels. The quality of most new books is rather disheartening, churned out by people who aren’t good at making comics and don’t seem to actually like, or want to work in, the medium.

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Brian C. Poole

Author (Grievous Angels) and pop culture gadabout #amwriting