Exists mostly for marketing reasons, not much to recommend it over the parent service. Marvel Store: Basically comiXology again, but with only Marvel comics available. If you’re looking for a short answer to ‘how and where do I buy ?’, this is what you’ll want. Let’s start out with a quick glossary of a few key nouns.ĬomiXology: The main online distributor for digital comics. Some of this will also apply to buying digital comics from DC or any other distributor, but I haven’t looked that far into finding out how non-Marvel-related alternatives compare. What follows is a quick overview of your options for (legally) getting hold of a digital copy of a Marvel comic. Time and effort were by far the greater expenditure, and that much I can share for free. In the last couple of weeks, I’ve signed up for no less than three different distribution services, picked up as many free titles as were available, and spent roughly $12 USD. What existing Internet guides I could find to this morass appear to consist largely of puff pieces or reviews of one particular service, frequently long out of date. Obviously, this was my cue it was time to take one for the team here and investigate exactly what ‘digital first Marvel Infinite’ means, in terms of what they’re selling us and how.ĭigital distribution channels have come a long way in the last few years, but can still be a little impenetrable to the newcomer – the release calendar on the Marvel website doesn’t even seem to cover digital-first releases, and that’s before you even get into comiXology versus the Marvel store or Marvel Infinite vs Marvel Unlimited versus a half-dozen other marginally different ways of selling you basically the same thing with a few different restrictions. Now, however, I’ve got a title I want to see do well, and that means both buying it the minute it hits the stands and convincing as many others as possible to do the same.
Given that all my past experience with ‘digital comics’ has generally begun with either an ebay listing or a bittorrent link, that’s a lot of terms I haven’t really seen outside the odd X-Axis review. So, the first comic I’ve had any real interest in rushing out to buy new in the last couple of years is coming out on the 20 th October as a ‘digital first series in Marvel’s Infinite Comics format’. (Originally written for tumblr, posted here after it got a bit lengthy for that, with a trimmed down version over on tumblr itself)
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