I want to read more comic books. I want to be a regular reader of a series and follow a character through a larger arc, then be intrigued by another character and go down the rabbit hole of their story. But the way that comics are released just doesn't work for me anymore.
I've tried. I'll wait months for a title to be available in trade if it means I can read it when I want to read it-on my schedule and terms. Asher Elbein's new piece in The Atlantic explains why many of my favorites are canceled or in peril by the time I buy their trades, and that just drives me more and more to the indie presses, or even away from comics at all.It is no coincidence that the more so-called "diverse," i.e. not default white male, titles are the ones that interest me (Alex Brown says a lot of how I feel whenever "diversity" is blamed for poor sales.). If you haven't kept up with the billionth Spiderman or which Robin is actually Robin since before you were born, it seems like there's no place for you.
