Anonymous asked:

Pandering to the people who have supported this industry for years is a sure way for this industry to be dead in a few years.> cont: it's not a since of entitlement. It's knowing for a fact that most of the people who keep your comics alive, the people that continue to buy and collect, the people you're alienating and driving away, are comic book people. You really think that saying you don't care about your core customers is the way to keep us loyal?

brevoortformspring answered:

There’s always one of you guys who’s a sensitive soul and has his feelings hurt when I tell him that he’s not the be-all and end-all of my world.

You make a pretty extreme leap from “Pandering to the people who have supported this industry for years is a sure way for this industry to be dead in a few years ” to “we don’t care about our core customers”. It’s as though if every single thing we do isn’t squarely aimed at you, you’re like a jealousy suitor or something—you go bananas.

Just look at our output. Clearly in excess of 90%, 95% of what we do is aimed at you. But pandering is the point where it all goes over the edge. And also—and let’s be frank about this, you and me, because we’ve both been here a long time—you’ve seen younger days. You’re not going to be around much longer, not in a long-terms sense. You’re going to die.

What we need is a steady influx of new younger readers to continue to come after us when we’re disintegrating in the ground.

And let me ask you: is the guy who started reading the books a year ago, or six months ago, or two weeks ago not a “comic book person”? Were YOU not after that period of time?

If you’ve got $3.99 in your hand, then you’re equal in my eyes.