The decision by the US government to make their tariffs against Canada, Mexico and China kick in this Tuesday means that comic books already printed in Canada and going through shipping processes are about to rocket in price. Not for this Wednesday; the comics have already left Canada for the USA, and plenty of them are already in store. But next week? Those comics, just in time for Valentine’s Day, may be the first to get caught up in the new 25% tariffs being imposed by the USA. Remember, comic book stores are not obliged to charge the cover price for their comics, and if they have to pay 25% more, then you will pay 25% more. With Marvel, DC, Image, Dark Horse, IDW, Dynamite, and Boom, most publishers printing their monthly comics in Canada expect a four-dollar comic to be a five-dollar comic overnight. And we can say goodbye to Todd McFarlane’s $2.99 Spawn line. Expect that to be the case going forward unless a) savings can be made and b) US printers can be found. The latter are generally more expensive than those in Canada, don’t have the comic book experience of Canadian printers, and demand for their services will be going up as well, so their prices will, too… Bad Idea Comics is already feeling the $200,000 pain.
There is now a follow-up: Valiant Comics says the $4.99 comic is over because of tariffs
Alright. I generally don’t get political in this community, but hell…here we are.
So here’s what I propose we do. We take every POSSIBLE thing that trump has ever shown to be insecure about. We make him the butt of all those jokes, and print them as a $25 weekly comic. With $20 of that going to help families displaced by ICE.
We’re talking small hands jokes. Small penis jokes. Being outperformed by a black guy jokes (I was thinking more along the lines of Obama as president, but I realize after rereading that statement it sounded like a sex thing. So take your pick I guess. Both work.) Taylor Swift diss tracks. Epstein references. Bankrupcies.
Hell, we’re even going for the nostolgia insults. Remember in the 80s when everyone made fun of him for wearing a hairpiece?
And the comic would be intentionally bad. The statement here would be that trump is such a loser, that we’re willing to overpay for a comic, by a lot, just to quote a poorly written comic, because in the end we know we’re financially undoing everything trump is trying to cause. His policies cause a financial economic boom period…for minorities.
And THAT would piss him off like nothing else.
I try to keep my comics side and politics side separate, but I do also mod !politics@lemmy.world and I created and mod !keeptrack@lemmy.world
The GOOD news is Trump is now saying he’s delaying the tarrifs 30 days.
Damn. I remember the old DC “Drawing the line at $2.99” poster from SDCC
Since when have comics been $4? I mean it makes sense, but how long has that been a thing?
