Marvel Comics, publishers of Spiderman, Hulk, X-Men and a host of other superhero comics, is going online. According to USA Today:Called the comic book industry’s “first online archive of more than 2,500 back issues, including the first appearances of Spider-Man, the X-Men and the Incredible Hulk.”, Marvel Digital Comics Unlimited will offer the archive in a high-resolution format on computer screens for $59.88 a year, or at a monthly rate of $9.99, at Marvel’s website.
To Help push this Marvel will offer a free 250 issue sampler for readers to try out. New issues will not be available online until six months after their publication date.
I spend a lot of time on the internet and get a lot of information from it. I like reading the different blogs and websites, but for me the way to read a comic is laying on your back with the comic on your chest, flipping the pages as you try to find out what happens next. I know I'm the wrong generation, this is aimed at the younger generation that doesn't mind reading comics on their computer screen. I wonder what long range effect this will have on the monthly comic book itself.
2 comments:
When I started reading the post, I thought Cool!
But then, like you, I realized that part of the fun of comics was laying on the floor with them.
I guess we're both old school.
I, too, at first thought it a great idea. And I'm glad that they're there to be found on the internet. I just don't want to HAVE to read my comics on the internet. I want to be able to lay on the floor and read them.
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