Buying Gemstones

[CarmenG@aol.com]

Joe Torcivia is right to admonish me to pre-order the Disney comics. I 
suppose I was a bit too optimistic when I thought I could just go to my local comic 
shop to pick up the new issues. In fact, I was unable to find them anywhere in 
town: no comic shops, no bookstores. And I would have thought Lexington, 
Kentucky, would have had SOME interest in it. I suppose I'll make a trip to 
Louisville and see if I have better luck there. If anyone knows where I can find 
copies of the free comic from last month, I'd love to have one. When I asked 
about it this week at my local stores, they had no idea....
        Which brings me to my next point:
Olaf writes:
>>In short: IF the American Disney comics were to be distributed in grocery
stores, that would in my opinion have one of these following results:
a) Nobody would buy them anyway, so the supermarkets would refuse to take
them in.
b) Gemstone would have to make a magazine the general mass would buy, to
make supermarkets sell them. That would effect Disney comics as Americans
know them - in a BAD way.<<
    I sympathize with your love of comic shops. But I grew up in a small town 
where I picked up my comics at the grocery or the convenience store or the 
bus station or the ice cream shop or the drug store. (No comic shops in 
Harrodsburg, Kentucky, 30-40 years ago! And probably none now!) And since I was 
reading Barks, I can't say the quality was *That* low! Kids will buy comics when 
they are Available to them. And I don't think they'll complain that the 
storytelling is too sophisticated for them. Can publishers these days understand this? 
--That children reading comics can be Elevated rather than pandered to? I 
don't know. It doesn't seem to be evident in other areas of life....
    How are sales of the Disney magazine that I see in supermarkets? Are 
these regular impulse buys (what an oxymoron!) such as an adult buying his or her 
regular People magazine or Soap Opera Digest?