Oh I agree completely. We think people will always want to buy printed comics, especially trades. That’s why our comics are created with trade printing in mind down the road.

We think established comics with trade collections out there will benefit from the digital versions of their books as well. After you’ve read a few issues on your iPhone, you might want to just go pick up the whole thing in a trade.

We don’t think print will ever die completely, but I do think digital comics will be driving force of future comic book sales.

1) Yes, I believe it is a good idea for us to market comics to those who have never even have a thought to visit a comic store before, by doing such thing as you put it … by "putting the comic store into their pocket", rather than asking them to go to comic store regularly. At least this way, I think they’re going to take a look on e-comics on their iPhones easier.

2) Yes, for new comic vendors like us, it is rather easier to gather readers’ interests and build fanbase with things such as webcomics and e-comics (such as this one!), rather than spending thousands of dollars on printings and distribution fess for a brand new item that no one has ever heard or think of before. Most comic readers choose to stick with comic books they knows about, like DC’s or MARVEL’s or IMAGE’s. This marketing method is kind of risk-free thing compared with the printing-blindly plan.

3) No, I don’t think that the future of comic book is digital. The reason is that over 80% of comic book readers worldwide feels more comfortable reading printed comic books that they can get ahold on their hands, such as myself. It has more value owning copies, rather than just electronic files. Ofcourse, people would read e-comics. But if those e-comics are considered to be favorites, and scheduled to be printed at a later date, people would still get the printed version of the same comics.

This doesn’t mean that I disagree with e-comics or something like that. It’s just that both e-comics and printed comic books should serves side by side, supporting one to another. That’s my 2 cents.