Kottke posted a link to this picture in Flickr. The picture was taken at comics bookstore and  lists 10 "cheap marketing ploys to increase sales" of comics. Number one on the list is kill major character which only means that number two ploy would be to resurrect the major character. All through reading this I kept hearing the fat comic bookstore owner on The Simpsons. What is his name? The guy with the pony tail.  He was great for lists. Anyways, I think that the number nine on the list which is "include half-naked women with physics defying breasts," needs to be number one. Reading the list, it would seem that marketing comics has become stagnant. They are everywhere -- movies, television, video-games, comic novels -- no comic really has a chance to stand out. Here is an idea: maybe the comic book characters should start writing blogs. Save people during the day and write about it at night. Just like what I do.