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File: bba388914bba96b⋯.jpeg (41.23 KB, 600x455, 120:91, 8093a3bad995ac8f808ba1fc0….jpeg)

 No.1000477

https://archive.fo/TdIoy

GAMESTOP TO START SELLING COMIC BOOKS

>Gamestop has recently leaned into the collectibles market and thus far has had stellar results. The latest move is yet another step in that comic-centric direction, as Bleeding Cool has learned that Gamestop will start offering comics themselves directly in certain locations. The leaked images show several comics already in the Gamestop system, which mainly consist of Marvel and DC books though there are a few Image and Oni Press titles in there as well.

 No.1000481

>selling products from a dying industry

Did one of the autistic cashiers suddenly get promoted to CEO? Why would they make such a retarded decision?


 No.1000484

>vidya chain starts selling physical comics

>but they still have to order from Diamond

If you want to save that industry, okay.


 No.1000485

$10 for a used game or $5 for Black Panther by TaKangzi Coates? It's a tough one, man.


 No.1000498

It's a bit too late for that one.


 No.1000511

Not a terrible idea in theory.

In theory.


 No.1000514

Just in time to sell Zoe Quinn's new Vertigo comic.


 No.1000517


 No.1000518

File: d3fd319aa31ace8⋯.jpg (6.98 KB, 209x250, 209:250, 1526865902851.jpg)


 No.1000522

File: 718eebb2ad1062b⋯.png (100.3 KB, 216x285, 72:95, kill me now.PNG)

>>1000518

Wonderful.


 No.1000523

Gamestop already sells shirts, board games, figurines, and other non vidya stuff in their stores so what's the big deal here?


 No.1000524

>>1000518

>article itself doesn't mention Zoe Quinn, but one of its tags is Zoe Quinn


 No.1000525

>>1000524

Here's another article with her name tagged for a Vertigo comic.

https://www.cbr.com/dc-vertigo-imprint-relaunch/


 No.1000526

File: 5217336972c3c78⋯.png (64.6 KB, 985x306, 985:306, zqcoob.png)

>>1000524

The name is there, anon. wtf.

>GODDESS MODE from writer Zoë Quinn (Crash Override, featured in People’s 25 Women Who Are Changing the World and Forbes’ 30 Under 30) with art by Robbi Rodriguez (Spider-Gwen, FBP: FEDERAL BUREAU OF PHYSICS) will debut in December

>In a near future where all of humanity’s needs are administered by a godlike A.I., it’s one young woman’s horrible job to do tech support on it. But when Cassandra finds herself violently drawn into a hidden and deadly digital world beneath our own, she discovers a group of super-powered women and horrific monsters locked in a secret war for the cheat codes to reality.


 No.1000529

>>1000526

Zoe still hasn't gotten over gamergate I see


 No.1000530

>>1000526

Spoiler: the cheat code is opening your legs for favours.


 No.1000532

File: bc29ded5f905994⋯.png (1.73 MB, 1903x4056, 1903:4056, IT'SALLSHIT.png)

>>1000518

Who the fuck do they think is going to pay to read any of this shit!?


 No.1000536

>>1000532

Border Town would be interesting if they didn't shoehorn in 'muh illegals'.


 No.1000537

>>1000532

Some of these like hex wives sounds like the writers thought they were too good for literotica


 No.1000539

>>1000536

I mean, if DC's New Age of Superheroes isn't selling that well, what makes them think this will?

Social Justice faggots have never put their money where their mouths are, why the fuck are DC and Marvel still pandering to them as a demographic? It has never rewarded them! It's got to be masochistic at this point!


 No.1000565

>>1000532

The only reasonable explanation is they don't care about money any more.


 No.1000587

File: 2cc23b382b3aa2f⋯.jpg (23.5 KB, 257x386, 257:386, Oh,_God!_(movie_poster).jpg)

>>1000537

>>1000536

This reads like a parody, since it systematically ticks off all the progressive talking points like a checklist.

>Border Town

Muh Illegals Dindu Nuthin. All the "weirdness" being blamed on the "God danged illegals" is a stand in for the legit concerns that Americans have about drug cartels and gangs, but here its substituted for silly things like cattle mutilation and none of it is the illegals fault.

>Hex Wives

Here's one for the pink-haired feminists. Women all have secret magic powers and life would be great if it wasn't for the evil schemes of the LITERAL PATRIARCHY.

>American Carnage

And here's our Black Lives Matter token. I never thought I'd see a description of a protagonist that describes his skin color and stops there. "He's bi-racial but can pass for white" wow, sounds like a deep character with lots of layers. The undercover plot premise makes this one a potential source for redpills though, if they have more scenes like Red Skull's MAGA rally.

>Goddess Mode

Anti-Gamegate: the comic. Zoe Quinn and her friends are the titular goddesses, and the gators are depicted as literal monsters. Sounds like a balanced and nuanced take on the conflict, straight from a very reliable and unbiased source.

>High Level

Sounds like a Mad Max: Fury Road ripoff, but with less Max. Probably the least objectionable of the batch but from the description it's just bland instead. Probably chock full of Don't-Need-No-Man Tough Grrrrl.

>Safe Sex

LGBT Pandering judging by the cover. Once again someone things their sexual kinks is a suitable substitute for plot and worldbuilding. Another source for redpill material if they try to get edgy and include postmodern kinks like pro-bestiality and pro-pedo material.

>Second Coming

This guy seems like a nice guy who was told to write something to promote the left-wing agenda and chose to poke fun at Christianity in order to do as little damage as possible while still keeping his job. This will be a rehash of jokes seen in Dogma, Preacher, really any Christian-critique humor stretching back to George Burns in "Oh, God!". Suspiciously absent: any criticism of circumcision.

See what I mean about this reading like a checklist? None of these are stories that the writers felt NEEDED to be written. This is a grab-bag of leftist issues and they put them up on a dry-erase board and matched them up to their writing team to see what they could come up with. Mark Doyle deserves to be shot.


 No.1000600

File: 14dbd15383ae320⋯.jpg (50.36 KB, 400x400, 1:1, terror.jpg)

>>1000518

>>1000522

>>1000524

>>1000525

>>1000526

>>1000532

>>1000587

We already have a thread about it

>>1000542

Long story short: We are so fucking boned.


 No.1000609

I stopped by a GameStop last week, just because I was curious what was out. I've kind of fallen out of the loop with vidya. To my surprise, the store was about 80% kitchsy redditor nerd shit, some board games, lots of t-shirts, piles of gacha/blind bag bullshit, and most surprising of all: some Gunpla stuff. Of course, all of it was about twice as expensive as it should be and their selection consisted of about 3 models, some markers, and some display stands.


 No.1000617

HookTube embed. Click on thumbnail to play.

>>1000600

We're past the point of no return. Nothing to do but to enjoy ourselves on the ride down.


 No.1000621

>>1000609

Up here in Canada I'm seeing EBgames being changed to EBpop and doing away with the games entirely in favor for nerd culture bullshit.


 No.1000719

>>1000600

>Long story short: We are so fucking boned.

When havn't we?


 No.1000724

File: 9d92cd59f2e67fd⋯.png (601.3 KB, 980x490, 2:1, ClipboardImage.png)

>>1000621

The outer windows of the GameStop I visited had huge posters and banners aggressively announcing that they sell funko pops. It was awful.


 No.1000763

>>1000621

>>1000724

So they;re competing with hot topic now?


 No.1000781

Gotta sell something once games are all download only. Those special editions that do not have a game included will only sell for so long.


 No.1000796

>>1000536

But it's blatantly nothing but a vehicle for "muh illegals."


 No.1000826

>>1000477

I thought they already did sell comics.

It's suitable though, comics is a terminal industry, gamestop is a terminal company. They're made for eachother.


 No.1000829

>>1000826

>comics is a terminal industry

I don't see comics going under but instead going through a radical change into a new era. Companies like DC or marvel might collapse but new ones will rise from the ashes like a phoenix


 No.1000875

FINALLY CONFIRMED BY GAMESTOP ITSELF!

>Video game retail giant GameStop is set to diversify its offerings beyond just games, revealing that it plans to begin selling comic books from special displays at select stores.

>The company confirmed that it will test comic book sales at 40 store locations, drawing a “small selection” of mainstream comics mostly from Marvel and DC, alongside some “exclusive variants” as cross-branding opportunities arise. The comics will be displayed on spinner racks in the selected stores.

>In a statement to SYFY WIRE, GameStop said comic books and games complement each other in a way that makes sense from a retail point of view.

>“Comics are often a part of our promotional entertainment industry environment, including video games — we can learn from this tribal knowledge,” the company said. “We have partnered with Diamond to carry a small selection of comics in 40 stores utilizing their new spinner rack. The comics are mostly from Marvel and DC with a focus on key series and titles.”

>GameStop so far hasn’t revealed which markets will be included in its test run. But if it succeeds, the company hopes to expand comic book sales to additional retail locations. For now, the footprint that comics occupy alongside the test stores’ selection of video games will remain comparatively small.

>“This is just a small launch to bring comics to some of our collectibles stores as they fit with the current trend of Collectibles that are performing in the market,” GameStop explained. “Should this prove successful, we may consider rolling out to additional stores in the future but plan to keep it limited to the spinner rack for the foreseeable future.”

http://www.syfy.com/syfywire/gamestop-to-begin-selling-marvel-dc-comics-in-some-stores

https://archive.is/zIpYl


 No.1000877

>>1000829

DC or Marvel won't collapse. If anything, DC and Marvel will be the ones that survive in reprints whilst everything else collapses


 No.1000879

>>1000875

>special displays

>at select stores

>small selection

>mainstream comics

>mostly from Marvel and DC

It sounds like they've really committed to this venture


 No.1000886

>>1000879

>jewsjewingjews.jpg


 No.1000923

>>1000886

Hey look, its the crazed politcal anon.


 No.1000942

>console trade in?

>sure thing, would you prefer that in comics about how racist you are or how sexist you are?


 No.1000990

>>1000875

This wont end well.


 No.1001021

>>1000990

>>1000879

It will be just like when they tried to sell retro games a couple years back. They only did it in select stores and it faded out rather quickly.


 No.1001041

>>1000875

Selling Overwatch, Minecraft, Dark Souls, and Rick and Morty comics could be something that their customers could actually be interested in. Witcher and 40K comics might sell decently enough too.


 No.1001158

>>1001021

I think this might be slightly more successful as you can keep a constant supply of comics going. With retro games, they're obviously not making any new ones and you'd have to be an idiot or in desperate need of cash to sell your retro shit to GameStop for $10 a pop.


 No.1001165

File: a14cd7a61e35e53⋯.jpg (32.46 KB, 328x398, 164:199, dc darkseid larfs.jpg)

>>1000477

>"GAMESTOP TO START SELLING COMIC BOOKS"

>mfw Marvel and DC's identity politics finally kill those evil fucking stores


 No.1005426

TO THE SPINNER RACKS THEY GO

>article by first-time Marlel writer Evan Narcisse

http://archive.is/Uc0HA

The rollout will be gradual.


 No.1005527

>>1001041

Some give this man a fucking upboat, actual vidya comics would be great.


 No.1005529

File: 8f6f5f50a7a38b9⋯.jpg (460.98 KB, 1024x1588, 256:397, streetfighter05_00.jpg)

File: ed6d3507444e8e0⋯.jpg (3.09 MB, 2008x3047, 2008:3047, Bloodborne 001-000.jpg)

>>1005527

Some vidya comics are better then anything current Marvel is putting out.


 No.1015199

bump


 No.1015218

>>1015199

>with still no new developments on this


 No.1015227

>>1005529

That Bloodborne and the Dark Souls comics are horrible though. The writers obviously didn't actually play the games.




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