If anyone reading this is over 13 and still reading comic books you have my sympathy.
LOL
Until the mid 90s, Comics had far more in depth and engrossing stories than anything on TV and better than many fiction novels.
Then PC took total control. See X-Men “Days of Future past/Present” and “Dark Phoenix” saga for the real deal. Not the crap movie rip offs. One could even include X-tinction Agenda.
I feel sorry for those that havent read them. And with walls full of fiction I have read over they years, I have plenty to compare it to.
It turns out, I’m part of the changing face of comic book readership. In their survey of readers, they found that the core customer of ComiXology is who you might expect:
Male Age 27-36 Has been reading print comics for a long time
But a new customer is emerging:
Female Age 17-26 Newer to comics, with many reading comics for the first time digitally
Of buyers new to ComiXology in the last three months, 20% are women.
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http://www.themarysue.com/comic-book-demographic/
First (graph above) he found that about 25% of the self-identified comic reading population is female (I’m interested in noting that this is far, far less than the percentage of women who play video games, perhaps indicating that the comic industry still hasn’t grasped how to bring in people who aren’t already interested in the medium in the way that the game industry does), and that the grand majority (graph not shown) of readers is between the ages of 18 and 45, giving credence to the industry’s contant worry about bringing in younger readers. Depressingly, half of all self-identified comic readers are single (not in a any relationship at all), but roughly 5% of them are gay, so at least we conform to larger statistical norms in that way.