Comic Book Talk

It seems to me like there is an interesting, if potentially flawed, idea with Comics Hub, but the whole thing got the spotlight put on it in at a relatively half-baked stage. Johnston proclaiming it was going to save the industry, as he did in his first article on it, was probably not the ideal debut, especially since deals were/are far from signed, sealed, and delivered.

And it's also telling that opinion from retailers seems to run the gamut from "You're asking me to take on another bill with no guarantee my customers will actually buy in" to "this is just a Trojan Horse for switching physical buyers to digital and it will kill us in the long run." I've literally seen some shop owners say they'd rather gamble on a month or two of no issues than lead their customers towards digital or pay for a service that has no track record of success.

I don't know. It's an interesting idea, but I can definitely see why there'd be resistance to it. And it seems more like part of a plan than an actual plan at this point. Like they had this idea and jumped the gun before, ya know, actually working out logistics on it.