I was inspired, yesterday to consider the object on the front of every current comic book I know of right now–the bar-codes.  While the inspiring piece looked at a different perspective of the bar-code, I wish to expose what it is to the face of a comic book.  The bar-code is a defacing piece of garbage.

Every week I see book after book scared by this mark–I don’t give it much thought because I have been brain washed to understand it.  But I don’t understand it.  Why do the artists allow such a mark appear on their pictures?

Why must we place this bar-code on the front of a comic book, when it could easily go on the back?  Paperback books place the bar-code on the back–never to be noticed by the consumer.  It doesn’t effect the efficiency of the stores. 

I’m sure that the bar code on the front is merely, because the publisher doesn’t want to scare the advertisements in the back–noooo, we wouldn’t want to do that.  Would they rather cover the details and cheapen the art that has been drawn?  The market is for comic books.  Bar-codes are understandable–it is time for the advertisers to feel the pain and absorb the rectangular box.  After all ,the back of the comic books are always covered by the bag and the board in the end.