Unfortunately, I feel like that bird has flown for the most part. Magazine racks are a dying breed in general, stores are pretty much carrying what's always done best and even those are playing a game of survivor as the shelf space perpetually shrinks. I don't see them making much of a play for adding stuff.
I thought Marvel doing that deal with Archie to do digest-sized reprints they could sell at grocery checkouts would bear some fruit and be a good path forward (like seriously, kids are way more likely to beg their mom for a mag with Spidey on the cover over friggin' Archie), but apparently they quit after 8 issues and I never saw one in the wild. I have seen a few 100-some page $5 DC reprint books at Walmart lately, but they're always shoved exclusively in the trading card aisle that's near the registers like it's supposed to be impulse buys for people waiting for registers... but the registers directly near it are never ever open, so no one ever browses there.
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