I know it doesn't look like it because the change is subtle and slow, but there is a change happening. Like the recent format change, physical proof that, as thought, it's not doing the business in comic shops that it used to and it has to look more like a "real" magazine to get new, magazine-buying customers. Like the recent change in attendance of the Wizard shows on the part of the Big Two (even though Marvel had an exclusive with them, I'm not sure that's still the case) and the con-attending public. Like the incident with Heroes Con last year, that included a New York Times piece with Greg Rucka calling them on the carpet for trying to push out older shows to try to gain just a little more ground in their monopoly and ended with them cancelling Wizard World Atlanta (http://www.digitalstrips.com/2005/08/news-wizard-cancels-wizard-world.html).

The thing is, these are all small changes and it's frustrating that there isn't a larger, more vocal opposition. But the fact that there are changes at all is encouraging.