Top Cow Pledges To Remain $2.99 In 2009!

This is one of the reasons that I love Top Cow.  I understand that publishers will need to raise the cover price as other costs increase but four bucks for a comic seems a bit much.  Higher prices will prevent new users picking up new titles.  Then we'll be left with the same characters in multiple comics rather than seeing new and possible cooler characters. 

I'd like to say Thank You to Top Cow.  Here's some info from them on this news.

“We looked around and saw cover prices creeping up and up all around us,” noticed Top Cow Publisher Filip Sablik. “It seems wrong to raise your prices on customers during these tough economic times. Once we knew we were going to hold the line on our prices, it made sense to call attention to it. Hopefully, it will encourage some fans to try our titles.”

And despite the price freeze, Top Cow will not compromise the quality of its regular-sized books to cut overhead costs.

“Our content pages will remain the same as it is now and in fact we're adding more and more added-value pages, including interviews, back-matter articles and preview art,” said Sablik. “We want to be the value and quality leader in the industry.”

The $2.99 price point does not apply to oversized books, exclusive variant covers and special editions.