Via Bleeding Cool: a comic shop in the US called — you guessed it, “A Comic Shop”, is offering to trade one of the 52 new #1s from the rebooted DC line-up in exchange for any vol #1 manga title.
The promo — spearheaded by a character named “Robama”, aims to encourage uhm sequential art fans to dump their manga for good old-fashioned all-American comics. Or something like that.
Funded by DC Comics, this has got to be one of the more xenophobic advertisements I’ve seen from the US in a while š I suppose with their economy tanking, “Buy American” sounds like a good idea — but I don’t quite approve of their tactics.
Who would trade in a volume of manga which contains more content than a single American comic book issue for an actual American comic book? That makes no sense to me.
my thoughts exactly š
First the logo change and then thisā¦Very aggressive marketingā¦
But maybe it’s just a great fan doing thisā¦to promote the New 52ā¦and not their official marketing policyā¦I’m curious how will this turn outā¦
i haven’t even heard of the logo change until you mentioned it!
i googled it and — the new logo looks like it peed all over itself š
Funny. I never saw Cyborg as Robo-Barack Obama…