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1. • CommentAuthorsmiggy3000
   • CommentTimeJul 16th 2010

    
   Ok, so that is a slight lie as its currently just starting with Wal-Mart for now, but theres a nice interview piece on it below. Anyways, Kicktart Entertainment, who made Wanted, have launched a comics devision, and will be distributing through Wal-Mart. So soon ASDA may start selling comics. Do they already sell those UK releases which collect a few issues in one, I forget, I doubt this will effect the Comic Book Shops anyways, and will posibly boost buisness slighty after small children pick them up n then want more.
   
   http://www.comicbookresources.com/?page=article&id=27185
2. • CommentAuthorMidnighter
   • CommentTimeJul 16th 2010

    
   In the US Toys R Us are also going to start selling comics, and theres some big book/music/DVD chain that have opened comic sections in a hundred or so of their stores. This is great and I think it might actually help comic shops, I got into "American" comics through buying GI Joe comics off a spinner rack in a Mall in Chicago and then hunting down the nearest comic shop back here in England. And my casual buying of imported X-Men comics form the local newsagent led to me buying far too many X-Men comics from the local comic shop.
   
   First of all though people need to be buying them from these shops for it to be a success, so fingers crossed a new generation of comic fans finds it's way into shops through Toys R Us and Wal Mart.
3. • CommentAuthorLee
   • CommentTimeJul 16th 2010

    
   Could work. I started in newsagents with imported DC titles before moving to 2000AD and then the awful discovery of Odyssey 7 in Leeds...
4. • CommentAuthorCaptain Si
   • CommentTimeJul 17th 2010 edited

    
   Asda currently only stock the A4 format comics with all that plastic crap stuck to the cover. Be good to see them do a potted selection of comics, as everyone else has stated, it does end up filtering trade into comic shops. Like everyone else, decent newsagents led to forays into Leeds' various comci shops; Skyrack, then Odyssey 7 and that musty smelling one that used to be in the Grand Arcade that had all its back issues in the dimly lit basement.
5. • CommentAuthorgreg75
   • CommentTimeJul 20th 2010

    
   Why was it that it was only DC that was sold in newsagents and not american marvel?I remember buying Tales Of the Teen Titans from my local newsagent every month.But never had any marvel.
6. • CommentAuthorMidnighter
   • CommentTimeJul 20th 2010

    
   Marvel were, that's how I got into X-Men through buying American stuff in newsagents. And if the local comic shop (Nu Earth in York, RIP) had run out of Spider-Man I knew I'd pick it up in a newsagents a month or so later :-)
7. • CommentAuthorgreg75
   • CommentTimeJul 23rd 2010

    
   Must have just been my crappy newsagents then!Can I just ask everyone on here when you buy comics nowadays is it purely for reading?Or is there a once i've read it i'll sell it in there as well?As far as i'm concerned nowadays people who are on low incomes like myself it's impossible to start buying comics when i was at school they were 35p the market is too over priced now.But thats just my humble opinion and why e-bay keep sending me boxes of 200 comics for fifty quid a pop.I'm purely on about brand new stuff though obviously not back issues.
8. • CommentAuthorLee
   • CommentTimeJul 23rd 2010

    
   I buy them purely for reading. Lots of them. I WILL save OK!
9. • CommentAuthorAHZ
   • CommentTimeAug 2nd 2010

    
   As someone privvy to the woefully tangled mess that is the supply chain of a supermarket I have to say as much as I admire the idea and it's potential for getting younger readers who can't go to tailored comic shops on their own I think it will undoubtedly be a bit of a car crash and you wouldn't be able to reserve your comics like you can in comic shops and most new agents. It is interesting how for example at my store we stock Beano and Dandy which are British institutions and a right of passage for countless children however we don't stock 2000AD which is equally synonymous with growing up in Britain?
   
   I only really got into comics fairly recently by that I mean issues I've collected graphic novels for a lot longer, mainly I just read them and my brother does too usually if it catches his eye. I might sell the odd limited series every now and then but only if it's something that I don't think was very good, in which case it's more about it going to someone who wants it than the actual money involved.
10. • CommentAuthorCaptain Si
    • CommentTimeAug 2nd 2010

     
    i don't think anyone would be expecting a reservation service of 'owt like that, just have the product on the shelves, like the other mags and comics. And yes, it is odd that 2000AD isn't in supermarkets, but then i don't think they'd know what to do with it.
11. • CommentAuthorMidnighter
    • CommentTimeAug 3rd 2010

     
    Don't most supermarkets only stock comics with useless tat attached to the cover anyway? I'm pretty sure I read that in an interview/article on the Beano or something.