• Flying Squid@lemmy.worldM
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      27 天前

      I agree that they care just about money and nothing else. But considering the book was a criticism of the comic book industry as a whole and mainstream comics in specific, I don’t think they did understand it.

      I feel like most readers don’t understand it.

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        27 天前

        ofc they understood it but… it’s not like they were just going to shut down DC and Marvel. Instead, a lot of folks went and started independent publishers, many of which do not focus on superheros, and now we have library shelves full of graphic novels in various genres.

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          They already were being printed by third party publishers in other genres. They just weren’t taken seriously. That was the Black Freighter part.