LogFAQs > #980252076

The #1 issue is price. The standard price for a comic nowadays is $4-5, compared to a minimum wage of about $7.25. Comics are a luxury that consumers are more than happy to cut instead of not eating. This is compounded by the fact that comics continue to get less and less dense, providing even worse value for your money. The nature of comic serialization is another big one; it's basically the only medium you have to look up a reading order for, and every issue that isn't part of the series you already care about is even more money you have to spend. Modern comics are also competing with older comics at this point; there's such an uncountable volume of comics, and a prospective new reader is probably going to stick with the ones that have recieved praise for the last 30 years instead of gambling their time and money on new stuff. Both of the big 2 have also become obsessed with cancelling and relaunching titles within the span of a few years, which can make discussing comics unweildy when, say, "Superman #3" could be referring to 6 different comics. The obsession with keeping the status quo is another big one; why would you care about any of the stakes when you know everything will return to the way it was within a year? Extremely shitty executive decisions and chasing comic book movies are contributing factors, but far from the main cause.