Cancelled!

[anarky]

How can they call it "All Star Western"? Isn't Gotham in New Jersey, according to the only official source that was ever put out by DC on the matter (The DC Atlas, or something)? I remember that, because I sorta figured Delaware until they said otherwise.

[RoIIo Tomassi]

It's their catch-all Western title that has backup stories of other DC Western heroes like El Diablo, Scalphunter, etc. And Hex isn't permanently stuck in Gotham(in fact, next issue he's in New Orleans). But compared to the previous series, it's subpar.

[RoIIo Tomassi]

As JJ has stated: No. New. Marvels.

While I haven't gone as far as to cut Marvel out entirely, I haven't felt the urge to be a completist on every damn title. Most of the new books I didn't bother picking up (Captain America, X-Men Legacy, etc) or I haven't bothered with after the first issue (Hulk, Iron Man, Uncanny Avengers, Thor, etc). And honestly, I'm not feeling strongly about the ones I'm still gonna collect (FF, F4, Avengers, X-Men, etc). The $4 price tag just doesnt seem like a sound investment for the amount of entertainment I'm getting.

I haven't dropped ALL the books yet, but I'm getting into that ambivalent area. The first time I seriously collected was eight years 1988-1995. Then there was an eight year break. This time it was from 2003-now. Which means I won't get the collecting bug again until around 2020.

Print comics might not be around by then. They'll have gone the way of passenger pigeons, EF Hutton, Twinkies, and Bajooka Joe Bubblegum.

[anarky]

They could be cheap. They need advertising. And better distribution.

Trouble is, most comics come from two companies that are more interested in the IPs than the comics themselves. It makes no sense for books to be $4, then the collections be $15 (and discounted further on Amazon and other sites). Less sense for digital comics to cost the same as print comics.

[jjreason]

When you compare the entertainment you got from them in the mid 80s to the entertainment you get now, it's so totally different. Yes I'm old, but it has something to do with the comics too. If we looked at some of the Bullpen Bulletins from around the time Secret Wars was coming out, I'm telling you there would be at least 10 Marvel books on some of those lists that you would enjoy - even now - 50x more than what's currently being produced.

EDITED: Whether this link is accurate or not I'm not sure, but look at the awesomeness taking place in many of these series in 1984.

http://marvel.wikia.com/Category:1984