Comics-are-a-Con

How are comic books as popular as they are?  I understand that they have great story lines full of intrigue set against the classic good versus evil.  However, there is no other thing in life where people are so accepting of starting in the middle.  Try going to a comic book store and asking to read the Batman series from the beginning, starting from issue number one.  You will be laughed out of the store.  Want to see how Superman begins?  That 1938 number one issue will cost as much as $2.16 million!

Most of the medium level comic book kids have never seen the first hundred or so issues - that has to be infuriating.  My own interlude into the comic book world lasted about a week.  I went to a store and decided I liked a dude named Dr. Strange so I bought a few comics.  They were really good but it was liked being dropped into the middle of a TV show.  I know there are zombies everywhere in Walking Dead but I want to know how that came to be.  With that thought I went back and asked for the first one.  The comic attendant (do they have a name?  Even Starbucks coffee bitches have a cool name!) told me he didn't have it but he could get it for $150.  That is crazy, i just want to read some stories bro.  That is the cost for the first issue for a comic not that many people have ever heard of - they only go up from there.

The early issues of comics should be re-released just so people can read them and not have to save all of their lives to check them out.  That is why people make fun of comic book nerds - the nerds are the only ones who know what happens in them and when they spit facts all over you the normal people just throw barbs (bags of pee) back at them and walk away.  Embrace the new culture comic books - print them all for cheap.

"Boo"