Marvel Titles Going Online
Author: Daniel Brooks
November 13th, 2007
CNN is reporting some pretty big news: Marvel is finally putting their comics up online. I’m sure there will be some bitching and moaning — you can’t download them, new releases aren’t available, etc. — but it’s a pretty big step. According to the article:
The publisher is hoping fans will be intrigued enough about the origins of those characters to shell out $9.99 a month, or $4.99 monthly with a year-long commitment. For that price, they’ll be able to poke through, say, the first 100 issues of Stan Lee’s 1963 creation “Amazing Spider-Man” at their leisure, along with more recent titles like “House of M” and “Young Avengers.” Comics can be viewed in several different formats, including frame-by-frame navigation.
The $4.99 monthly deal for unlimited access seems pretty reasonable to me, though I’m still not sure how good this stuff can look when viewed through a web browser. Either way, the times they are a changin’.
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4 Responses to “Marvel Titles Going Online”
November 13th, 2007 at 12:37 pm
I’ll be “bitching and moaning” shortly, Dan. Marvel titles online = good. Implementation = pretty shitty and short sighted.
November 13th, 2007 at 12:45 pm
Haha good, the world needs bitching and moaning. I’m sure the service will evolve as Marvel figures out what they’re doing.
November 13th, 2007 at 2:54 pm
Honestly
It was Marvel.com’s free webcomics that got me back into buying comics. I must have read the first 30 Ultimate Spider-mans online along with whatever else tehy were offering. Eventaully I caved and headed to my local comic store and havent looked back since. I think its a good thing, nobody wants to be liek teh music industry embracing the internet much too late.
November 14th, 2007 at 8:29 am
Just wanted to say that I tried out Astonishing X-Men #1 over at Marvel.com. It was cool — the books are in hi-res, and navigation is pretty easy, but Steve’s right; the implemenatation isn’t so hot. You have to zoom in to be able to read anything, and at that point the experience just gets annoying. I’m still signing up though, cause I’m willing to live with it in order to get access to all those funnybooks.