Comments on: Weird Fact of the Day http://comicsworthreading.com/2007/11/05/weird-fact-of-the-day/ Independent Opinions on Comics of All Kinds Thu, 23 May 2013 03:54:54 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Alan Coil http://comicsworthreading.com/2007/11/05/weird-fact-of-the-day/comment-page-1/#comment-77272 Alan Coil Wed, 07 Nov 2007 00:18:11 +0000 http://comicsworthreading.com/2007/11/05/weird-fact-of-the-day/#comment-77272 How about cracks about Rich Johnston? Can we? Please?

As I am on a limited budget these days, I never read TCJ. My LCS only gets 1 copy for a subscription customer.

]]> By: Ray Cornwall http://comicsworthreading.com/2007/11/05/weird-fact-of-the-day/comment-page-1/#comment-77266 Ray Cornwall Tue, 06 Nov 2007 21:39:31 +0000 http://comicsworthreading.com/2007/11/05/weird-fact-of-the-day/#comment-77266 This is why I don’t hate my two-hour commute on the train- plenty of time to read comics! (In the last two months, I finished Lone Wolf and Cub and GTO. The whole runs.)

]]> By: Johanna http://comicsworthreading.com/2007/11/05/weird-fact-of-the-day/comment-page-1/#comment-77264 Johanna Tue, 06 Nov 2007 21:13:23 +0000 http://comicsworthreading.com/2007/11/05/weird-fact-of-the-day/#comment-77264 What a great simile!

I sometimes wonder if the internet has ruined me, because I find in-depth lengthy pieces harder to force myself through.

]]> By: Matt D. http://comicsworthreading.com/2007/11/05/weird-fact-of-the-day/comment-page-1/#comment-77263 Matt D. Tue, 06 Nov 2007 20:46:20 +0000 http://comicsworthreading.com/2007/11/05/weird-fact-of-the-day/#comment-77263 Congrats, Johanna. Personally, with so many comics news Web sites out there, I get my fill pretty quickly and don’t feel the craving to thumb through TCJ. It does offer more indepth stories, which I think are lacking on the Internet. But it’s kinda like trying to hold out for pumpkin pie next week when there’s a bag of M&Ms in front of you!

]]> By: John http://comicsworthreading.com/2007/11/05/weird-fact-of-the-day/comment-page-1/#comment-77254 John Tue, 06 Nov 2007 16:46:57 +0000 http://comicsworthreading.com/2007/11/05/weird-fact-of-the-day/#comment-77254 I never used the word unimportant – I did call it a vanity publication. Which it is and always has been. Lots of vanity publications are worthwhile . . .

I wish I was a lawyer . . . they have nicer clothes and expense accounts than I do.

]]> By: Johanna http://comicsworthreading.com/2007/11/05/weird-fact-of-the-day/comment-page-1/#comment-77253 Johanna Tue, 06 Nov 2007 16:29:48 +0000 http://comicsworthreading.com/2007/11/05/weird-fact-of-the-day/#comment-77253 No, you just said they had a swelled head and were unimportant. Are you perchance a lawyer? :)

]]> By: John http://comicsworthreading.com/2007/11/05/weird-fact-of-the-day/comment-page-1/#comment-77251 John Tue, 06 Nov 2007 14:30:39 +0000 http://comicsworthreading.com/2007/11/05/weird-fact-of-the-day/#comment-77251 I never said anything about them being past their prime! Nor about not being a great magazine! I followed the rules . . .

]]> By: Johanna http://comicsworthreading.com/2007/11/05/weird-fact-of-the-day/comment-page-1/#comment-77250 Johanna Tue, 06 Nov 2007 14:22:49 +0000 http://comicsworthreading.com/2007/11/05/weird-fact-of-the-day/#comment-77250 Was “no cracks” confusing to you?

]]> By: John http://comicsworthreading.com/2007/11/05/weird-fact-of-the-day/comment-page-1/#comment-77248 John Tue, 06 Nov 2007 13:46:36 +0000 http://comicsworthreading.com/2007/11/05/weird-fact-of-the-day/#comment-77248 That doesn’t say much for the Journal’s so-called cred, I have to say. It makes it seem like much more of a vanity publication than I ever imagined it was . . . the real cash cows are obviously the books and comics, but in all my years, I’ve never encountered an inanimate object with as big a head as the TCJ . . . big hat, no cattle, as they say.

]]> By: Rich Johnston http://comicsworthreading.com/2007/11/05/weird-fact-of-the-day/comment-page-1/#comment-77247 Rich Johnston Tue, 06 Nov 2007 13:21:11 +0000 http://comicsworthreading.com/2007/11/05/weird-fact-of-the-day/#comment-77247 Wait till more people read you than read the X-Men. That’s when it gets stupid.

]]> By: Ray Cornwall http://comicsworthreading.com/2007/11/05/weird-fact-of-the-day/comment-page-1/#comment-77244 Ray Cornwall Tue, 06 Nov 2007 11:36:25 +0000 http://comicsworthreading.com/2007/11/05/weird-fact-of-the-day/#comment-77244 Huh! So it is. (I get mine through MailOrderComics, so I rarely see the price.)

]]> By: Johanna http://comicsworthreading.com/2007/11/05/weird-fact-of-the-day/comment-page-1/#comment-77242 Johanna Tue, 06 Nov 2007 10:51:59 +0000 http://comicsworthreading.com/2007/11/05/weird-fact-of-the-day/#comment-77242 Oooh, new plans! That’s great to see, keeping up with changing times.

(Ray, it’s $11.95, not $9.95 any more.)

]]> By: Dirk Deppey http://comicsworthreading.com/2007/11/05/weird-fact-of-the-day/comment-page-1/#comment-77235 Dirk Deppey Tue, 06 Nov 2007 05:42:13 +0000 http://comicsworthreading.com/2007/11/05/weird-fact-of-the-day/#comment-77235 Distribution had been hovering around 4500 copies or so since the beginning of the decade. It dropped due to our ending newsstand circulation some months back in the course of plotting out a new strategy for such things — I believe an announcement on this subject should come sometime soon.

]]> By: Ray Cornwall http://comicsworthreading.com/2007/11/05/weird-fact-of-the-day/comment-page-1/#comment-77229 Ray Cornwall Tue, 06 Nov 2007 04:08:20 +0000 http://comicsworthreading.com/2007/11/05/weird-fact-of-the-day/#comment-77229 I’m not surprised. I love TCJ- I have all but 5 of the issues- but with its limited distribution and high price ($9.95), it’s not an impulse purchase anymore. It’s hard to find unless you go to one of those 50 or so Direct Market stores that carry more than special order copies.

I still love the magazine. I just finished the Darwyn Cooke/Ernie Colon/Keith Knight issue, and it’s a doozy. While we don’t get hard-hitting journalism anymore from the Journal, it still acts as the best oral history of comics that we have, and there’s a lot of value in that. I hope TCJ is around for a long time.

]]> By: James Schee http://comicsworthreading.com/2007/11/05/weird-fact-of-the-day/comment-page-1/#comment-77226 James Schee Tue, 06 Nov 2007 03:29:35 +0000 http://comicsworthreading.com/2007/11/05/weird-fact-of-the-day/#comment-77226 LOL congrats I guess on the traffic? Though how many are just looking for porn and mistyped?:)

I miss TCJ being in book chain stores. I don’t find myself interested in enough of their interview subjects to subscribe(Nor have the money currently anyway). So getting to pick up the issues at the local BAM was cool. Especially since I’ve yet to see a shop within a 100 miles that orders it.

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