This week's comics for me:
SQUADRON SUPREME #6
RICK AND MORTY # 13
JACKED #6 (of 6)
HELLBOY AND THE B.P.R.D. 1953: BEYOND THE FENCES #3 (of 3)
BILL AND TED GO TO HELL #3 (of 4)
3 DEVILS #2 (of 4)
JUSTICE LEAGUE #49
DARK KNIGHT III: MASTER RACE #4 (of 8 )
MICRONAUTS #1
BATMAN '66 MEETS THE MAN FROM U.N.C.L.E. #5 (of 6)
TWILIGHT ZONE: THE SHADOW #1 (of 4)
LORDS OF THE JUNGLE #2 (of 6)
GODZILLA: OBLIVION #2 (of 5)
LOST IN SPACE #2
VELVET #14
SIMPSONS COMICS #228
PATSY WALKER A.K.A. HELLCAT #5

Those are my favorite digital comics, the free public domain ones! It's not like Archie Digital is giving you the option to buy that stuff even if you wanted to. They didn't even have the 1940s issues of ARCHIE until Dark Horse Comics had them available in hardcover first.

I finished reading ARCHIE BY BOB MONTANA: THE COMPLETE DAILY NEWSPAPER COMICS 1946-1948. That was really good. Today I got ARCHIE'S PAL JUGHEAD ARCHIVES VOL. 1 hardcover from Dark Horse Comics, which reprints the first 8 issues from 1949-1951, so (after reading this week's current releases) that is what I'll probably be getting into next. After I finish that I plan to get the next ARCHIE BY BOB MONTANA: THE COMPLETE NEWSPAPER COMICS hardcover volume from IDW, which covers the years 1960-1963 (don't ask me why they skipped 1949 through 1959).

Quote from: GingerGal on April 26, 2016, 05:35:59 PM
If they are selling the new series at the same price at both digitally and printed what is the incentive to get the digital one?

What indeed. It could be that it is just easier for some people to get it that way, and it saves them a trip to the comic store (or their local comic store may not even carry the title they're looking for, or be sold out of it).

One thing that ACP doesn't do, that other comic book companies like Marvel DO do, is to offer a free digital copy with a code printed in the print version of the comics. That is good thinking on their part, because if people who like the digital versions only because it's easier to get for them are given a little extra motivation, they can have BOTH versions, if they're willing to make the effort to seek out a print copy of the comics (and selling those extra print comics is sometimes what makes them worth printing at all, since they may be only on the borderline of profitability -- they don't want to compete for sales with their own digital versions).

Quote from: GingerGal on April 26, 2016, 05:24:34 PM

Quote from: DeCarlo Rules on April 26, 2016, 05:17:26 PM

Quote from: GingerGal on April 26, 2016, 05:13:09 PM
Yeah, but if it is only a digital version it is cheaper, like the new Kevin Keller series.

Okay, that is something new then, and I guess I missed that. LIFE WITH KEVIN (digital exclusive) is cheaper than the $3.99 price they're charging for issues of ARCHIE and JUGHEAD? Actually, I'm curious about how you know what the price of LIFE WITH KEVIN will be, since it can't be online for sale anywhere just yet.

What I am looking at is the comics that are on the App that are Kevin Keller comics that they are selling now for 0.99 cents. I must be confused and also confusing you because I guess the Kevin Keller comics and The Life With Kevin comics are a totally different thing. I don't see anything on the App for The Life With Kevin.

Okay, I thought you were talking about new comics, and the new LIFE WITH KEVIN digital exclusive series. What you are actually looking at are the digital versions of old issues of KEVIN KELLER, which ceased publication with issue #15 in 2014. I would imagine that with the new digital exclusive LIFE WITH KEVIN series coming up, they are anticipating pushing some extra sales on that digital title when it becomes available, and (thinking ahead) are offering the old issues of KEVIN KELLER at the sale price of .99 cents, in the hopes that people who try those at the bargain price will then become fans of Kevin and purchase the new series when it comes out.

Quote from: GingerGal on April 26, 2016, 05:13:09 PM
Yeah, but if it is only a digital version it is cheaper, like the new Kevin Keller series.

Okay, that is something new then, and I guess I missed that. LIFE WITH KEVIN (digital exclusive) is cheaper than the $3.99 price they're charging for issues of ARCHIE and JUGHEAD? Actually, I'm curious about how you know what the price of LIFE WITH KEVIN will be, since it can't be online for sale anywhere just yet.

Quote from: JonInIowaCity on April 26, 2016, 04:16:00 PM
The problem with digital comics is that you need to seek them out. That's limited, in my mind.

For example, I was a fan of the 80s "Jem & the Holograms" cartoon, but didn't plan on purchasing the new IDW comic. Last year, I went to FCBD and began leafing through those books and really liked them and now I read them regularly.

Basically, it was an impulse purchase that led to me purchasing copies of every book every month.

With digitial comics, you need to look for them to get them.

Exactly. Digital sales hinge on your knowing that the digital comic exists, and then being sufficiently motivated to go to an online source where you can buy a copy.

This is the 180 degree opposite of what traditionally has kept Archie digests selling for 40 years - the concept of "point of purchase display" and "impulse buy", which is based on the idea that the consumer HAD NO INTENTION of purchasing beforehand, but just seeing the item available results in a snap decision of "Oh, what the heck! Why not?" The actual MOTIVATION to purchase something specifically doesn't follow until later.

Quote from: GingerGal on April 26, 2016, 04:13:45 PM
I don't know how the administration would like it or even if they would let the pizza delivery person on the campus to deliver the pizza. After 8 a.m. everyone has to buzz in to the front office from the front gate and all the students parents and students who drive are given a password to enter which is changed weekly and only given to students and parents e-mails weekly. Security is pretty tight here.

That is tighter security than you find at some technology firms. Your Principal's name wouldn't happen to be Stanger, would it? 

Quote from: GingerGal on April 26, 2016, 04:01:49 PM

Quote from: JonInIowaCity on April 26, 2016, 03:57:19 PM
Presumably.

That is what I thought. I guess they are thinking even though the digital will be a cheaper price I guess to buy more people will buy it and they will make more than if they spend more on a printed copy and charge more and less people buy it.

Well, here's where you're wrong. The price of a digital version of Archie Comics that exist in print versions also is the same, so no money saved there if you're choosing digital over print. I mean, sure -- ARCHIE COMICS saves the money that would normally go to paying the printers and distributors, but YOU don't save any.

Quote from: GingerGal on April 26, 2016, 02:54:20 PM

Quote from: DeCarlo Rules on April 26, 2016, 02:19:12 PM
Neither. This instead.

I don't know if I could get away with taking one of those to my high school without getting laughed at. Maybe if I was a bit younger, but in the 9th grade no. They are awesome though.

I don't think many 9th graders would embrace the concept of "retro-cool", so no. I guess when you're in 9th grade your idea of cool would be more like ordering a pizza for lunch using your phone app, and having it delivered to the school cafeteria, so you can stand up and wave "Hey pizza guy! Over HERE!!" while all your friends look on.

I wish! I have quite a few of more recent manufacture, after the metal lunchbox became a non-sellable item for general retail consumers, and turned into an "instant collectible" aimed at grabbing the disposable income of adult collectors. Then a lot of new companies got into the manufacture of those things, even Dark Horse Comics and Archie McPhee (no relation, a manufacturer of novelty items). In the old days when those Archie and Sabrina lunchboxes were produced, only a few companies were responsible for the majority of lunchboxes released every year at back-to-school time: Aladdin, Thermos, King Seeley. I only have a couple of the older lunchboxes. Those things are hard to find in good condition, because (as you can probably imagine) kids didn't particularly care about whatever wear they suffered while they were in use. Which of course makes the few that WERE preserved in next-to-new condition VERY pricey, according to the demand for the character.

Neither. This instead.

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Quote from: BettyReggie on April 25, 2016, 04:22:30 PM
Well she did have 37 Comics plus special issues that 48 pages. When Kevin only had 15 issues. He is getting his digital vomic which is cool. I just wish it was a real comic so I can put them in my comic frames. He looks handsome all grown up.

15 comics today is practically equal to 30 comics back in the 90s. There is less disposable income and less room for error.

There was less disposable income back in the 1940s and early 1950s, but that was comics' peak selling period. I don't think the key is less disposable income, it's more competition from different ways to dispose of the same disposable income. Back when Cheryl Blossom was being published, spending your Cheryl Blossom money on iPad apps or digital music wasn't an option for any reader.

Quote from: GingerGal on April 25, 2016, 07:49:47 PM
But they have been around for 75 years which I would think has made them a lot of money over those many years. What have they done with all that money?

When times were good, I'm thinking mostly limousines, yachts and summer homes in the Hamptons.   

Quote from: GingerGal on April 25, 2016, 07:19:10 PM

Quote from: invisifan on April 25, 2016, 06:34:44 PM
Reggie has had his own comic a (very) few times in the past but never done well with it — he got defined as a member of the core group decades ago and that's become set in stone over the years, but he's essentially a foil/antagonist and alternative for dating than a lead ... Given the small number of books they seem to be willing/able to put out at one time I doubt they'd even consider it seriously ...

Why is it that they don't want to put out more comic series, do they have a fear they will all fail? I would think if they would come up with something or a character the fans want to see more of it would sell. Supply the fans with what they want and I would think they would buy it. I don't know I'm just a 14 year old kid and they are big time business executives, but I am also the 14 year old kid that is buying there product so they should listen.

I'm not sure that YOU couldn't do a better job of running things than the current "big time business executives" at ACP. They seem to have some pretty weird publishing strategies that aren't completely satisfying the 14 year old readers OR the older comic book fans that have been reading comics for decades.