I’m not ready to call the Big Two of comics dead because I still see an opening if someone is clever enough to utilise it and is in position to do so. We just need to find those people, which is looking less and less likely. However, charting the path of DC and Marvel’s slow decay is more than modern politics and can actually be tracked to a change in focus for an industry that has never had the guts to stand up for itself among the other media of storytelling. Author Brian Niemier has collected the data about how DC Comics and Marvel Comics got to this point, and it’s been a decades long decent.
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