How will the CoronaVirus affect the comic industry?

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    Comics industry has been in the can for a while, I'm honestly surprised that the whole thing didn't implode at some point in the year.
     
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    Too bad the quality of comics has took a suicidal leap.
     
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    The backlash towards Doctor Who is fully justified.
     
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    I honestly can’t tell as they seem to be in a constant state of backlash. It seems every new iteration of the Doctor is either the best one ever or the worst.
     
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    Yeah, the Doctor Who fandom has been backlashing pretty consistently since the mid-1980s when Davidson left. And then every time an era ends, fandom shifts and suddenly that last era wasn't so bad -- THIS new era is what's bad.
     
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    I have less of an issue with the current Doctor, than the current show runner who can't write Sci-fi an just wrote a horrible retcon last season few people actually liked. Even when he wrote for Tenneth. Smith, and Capauldi his episode were always at best okay, most of the time they were usually the worst of the season.
     
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    Hungry Earth was pretty good, and he wrote a couple episodes of the consistently great Life On Mars, but yeah, checking over his writing credits, it's not an impressive lineup overall. But on the other hand, I thought Moffat was a fantastic writer in the first 3 seasons of New Who, but not a great showrunner (and not a great writer, either, after he took up showrunning). So I guess there was no way to tell before actually giving Chibnall the job.

    edit: unless you were talking about RTD's retcon and not Chibnall. But RTD is a whole other can of worms.
     
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    You need to said this to their owners, Disney and AT&T/WB.
     
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    Honest question from someone who doesn't know better... Do any of those facilitators above actually matter compared to the authorial teams? It seems like change means cut backs and therefore bad times for the whole business but just looking at those roles I see a lot of overlap and potentially duplication/deadwood within something that's a relatively large organisation? I see a lot of debate about how/who the rewards of various endeavours (credit, not just pay) needs to get more appropriately distributed away from production types and back to the people actually doing the work...

    I've got to imagine the greater threat to most of us as participants isn't the source material, but whether or not the community aspect of retail (even if that is just 1 customer and 1 employee) in this genre is ruined - which honestly seems to be one of the greatest assets of the comic/hobby/gaming/enthusiast scene... And one of those things that any retail business has struggled to value/fund in the past decade since its harder and harder to hide that price in 'merely' stocking shelves (which is obviously achievement in itself but something we all understandably value less or see as less unique now there's more ways to get at product easily).

    Assuming our haunts survive this year I think its going to be really interesting to sew some franker discussions about how we fund such communities - whether that's clothes/music/film/coffee/comics... And who knows (certainly not me) perhaps some of those facilitators I kind of dismissed at the top will come back around to fulfill that... I'd suspect/hope in my idealistic ways though that those roles should go more to the frontline staff and people who have been namelessly providing these services for years already...

    Or am I way off base and I've no idea and most local communities are actually toxic echo halls that could do with disappearing ? :) 
     
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    , Chibnell hates the character and the fans.......it’s the only explanation.....