Logic wrote:
Membership service is actually cheaper than buying comics at a store.
Most Marvel/DC comics average an issue every month/month and a half (besides that 52 bullshit, which pops one out every week) at 24 pages a book(average.) Last Wednesday when I geeked it up my comics cost $6.50 each, with the special Captain America's death issue coming in over $25.
The average subscription service for online comics (from the ones I subscribe to) is one to three dollars. Poe averages 12 comics a month and if they land it in the 2 dollar a month range you'll be saving $2.50 per comic "book."
Impy said something about a $10 a year deal, so that'd be even better.
Yes, Poe isn't as fast as the mainstream comics, but he doesn't have a team of artists helping him out. He has to draw it, ink it and shade it all by himself which is usually handled by 3 dudes for every comic. That's 8 pages per guy per month, while Poe does 12.
I think it's one hell of a deal.
(I might have rambled a bit there, sorry if I'm a little hard to follow.)
Despite your "logic," I'm afraid I'm going to have to speak for the internet and say that nobody would pay a subscription for a webcomic. Okay, I'm sure you could find SOMEbody, but they don't count. Its just not the way the internet works. Heck, Penny Arcade could start asking for a subscription (I know they don't need one, bear with me), and despite its popularity I'm sure most people would just get angry and learn to live without it. A move like that with this webcomic would surely kill it dead, since it isn't exactly mega-popular to begin with. Webcomics are, by nature, free to just look at. Anything different would be an unwanted abhorance.
Though I'm not denying the need for income. And therein lies the rub...