Marvel Comics Go Online
· Nov 13, 09:47 AM
A triumph (IMO) of online comics:
Over and over, by actions and direct quote, it is clear that through the offerings I’ve seen by any of the major comic publishers, they only look to their website as a way to boost print sales, instead of looking at the web as distribution platform in and of itself. […] Marvel, today, is one step closer to recognizing this bittersweet fact, and they’ve decided to release more of their comics in an online version starting today. Those that regularly frequent Marvel.com will probably not be surprised by this. It has been a long slow march towards what looks like eventually releasing all their comics online.
Unfortunately, everyone and their mother must have hit up Marvel today because I got MySQL (database) errors when I tried to check it out.
It seems to be up now, though.
The crappy thing is, there’s only 25 comics available for free. You have to sign up for an online subscription.
It also appears they’re going the Hula route and only allowing the reading of the comics in their special “web viewer.”
When is old media going to get it and see that people don’t want to jump through hoops (haha Hula Hoops) to see their content?
We want your content, we desire your content. Give it to us and make it easy. That’s all we ask. Use all the product placement and advertising you want, we won’t mind if you just give us open, easy access!