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@fullofwhoa Maybe. But not necessarily. I mean, does the huge audience for primetime TV mean that TV jobs are easier to get?

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@fullofwhoa ...until the 5th film. And I really enjoyed movies 5-8, but don't really feel the need to watch 1-4. Good comics are the same.

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@fullofwhoa So yeah, it was all ages in some ways. But it was also a really complicated world. I didn't start enjoying Harry Potter media...

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@fullofwhoa I feel like it was the type of thing where many came to HP with the third or fourth book and then got excited to read the rest

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@fullofwhoa I think that's what people are thinking. But what I don't understand is: Why is it so important? How will it make things better?

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Rant over. I'm just sick of the "it's our responsibility to create the next generation of readers" meme among comics critics and creators.

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...something that feels like it's a full world to explore, with ambiguous moments and references to other stuff.

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I think that mystery, developed relationships and complex circumstances are often really attractive to new readers. They want to join...

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...Infinity Gauntlet was #1 on Amazon despite the fact that the story is complicated and totally non-new reader friendly.

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...like it's not actually made for new readers. My fav example is how popular the Infinity/Thanos stuff was after the Avengers last year...

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