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- Balanced, on 11/02/2009, -3/+12iPod Touch?
- eastbako, on 11/02/2009, -1/+9Hopefully the subscribers of Marvel Digital Comics get some type of benefit from this!
- inactive, on 11/02/2009, -3/+11Ahem, we prefer the term "true believers"
- Charlotte_Web, on 11/02/2009, -2/+9I enjoy Nerds... especially the strawberry ones.
- dohdig, on 11/02/2009, -2/+8Best partnership ever! Er, excuse me. No banging your head on the display case please, it contains a very rare Mary Worth in which she has advised a friend to commit suicide. Thank you.
- belfastbiker2, on 11/02/2009, -2/+7Because people who read comic books don't get sex, that is funny. <applaud>
- Balanced, on 11/02/2009, -0/+4Interestingly, many comic readers do know how to spell and assemble sentences in a readable fashion, albeit with a tendency to overuse exclamation points, capitals, and asterisks!
- Rudymoman, on 11/02/2009, -5/+8There's an app for that!
- urbanarson, on 11/02/2009, -5/+8The headline should read:
"Disney To Bring Comics To iPhone" - MacParrot, on 11/02/2009, -0/+3Data purists would say that if they don't have physical possession of the data they have purchased that they don't have control of it. I happen to agree with you though that this is where the market will eventually go to. It will really come down to bandwidth and better more efficient compression. Especially when it comes to video.
Wouldn't it be great to no longer be concerned about how much physical storage you have on your computer, cell phone, or digital content player? - mojomogul, on 11/02/2009, -3/+6Anything for Android, beetches? They should know comic fans + opensource has an overlap...
- marcduke, on 11/02/2009, -2/+5"....partnering with Marvel Comics, one of the largest comic book companies in the world...."
Really? Marvel Comics? Never heard of them.
/s - skellener, on 11/02/2009, -1/+4Comixology Comics
http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/ ... - deadpoetic333, on 11/02/2009, -3/+5App developers need to stop ignoring Android; it's not going anywhere and is an open market in need of apps.
- MyNameIsJoe, on 11/03/2009, -0/+2I'm more into the rainbow and grape ones, but they are all good.
- leif777, on 11/03/2009, -0/+2I love it. I stopped reading comics cus they're too damn expensive. When TMNT put out 4 books for the iphone I loved it and wanted more. If I can get some older issues I'd love it too.
- bloominoctober, on 11/02/2009, -1/+3Do what I've been doing for quite some time now -- Download comics from TPB. Install the ComicZeal app on your iPhone, and use the newly-added USB syncing to move whatever you want to the iPhone. ComicZeal was $1.99 when I bought it, and TPB gives me whatever I want for the best price of them all - FREE. Why pay 99 cents per issue?
- supersonicjim, on 11/02/2009, -0/+2I don't have an iPhone and I don't like Marvel. But I am a 'comics fan' that means I have one of those phones and I wear t-shirts telling the the world that I like Nintendo now that it is fashionable.
- edwartica, on 11/02/2009, -0/+2No, Marvel has done a successful job at ruining their comic line without the intervention of Disney.
- napier, on 11/02/2009, -1/+3This is awesome, Panelfly looks like a comics viewer. That being said, they really need an accompanying desktop version so you read the comics in a much larger format when you're not on the go. I love having comics on my phone, but squinting to read them and scrolling constantly gets a bit tiring.
- MacParrot, on 11/02/2009, -1/+2Yes DC would never do this by...say...creating something like the Watchmen in motion graphics format
- joshmoney, on 11/02/2009, -0/+1I'm pretty sure you're right about this. I've said the same thing before on here with mixed responses - it doesn't make sense for so much data to be duplicated when the same content can be streamed from one location. This same principle will apply to music as well. It just doesn't make sense to have hundreds of gigs of audio on local drives when you could simply purchase licenses to the music to stream it whenever you feel like it. Of course it won't happen right away as people still think of having something on a local hard drive as the equivalent to "owning" it. But if you look at the way the current models are evolving, with apple keeping records of everything you download so that you can re-download files, and streaming services becoming more commonplace, i think everyone will eventually access the same data in the future, eliminating the need for so much duplicate data storage.
- coldfusion1970, on 11/02/2009, -0/+1With any publisher you go for the mass market first, then mop up the little guys.
- jv2k, on 11/03/2009, -0/+1So you bought all these awesome apps and you can't use them because you don't have a signal? Maybe some day when we have the infrastructure for it but for now it's a terrible idea.
Also I like having a what I purchased in my possession where I can reliably keep track of it and use it on my own. - MacParrot, on 11/02/2009, -1/+2I doubt Marvel will ignore the Android platform, but right now a lot of devs are jumping on the iPhone bandwagon. Marvel will no doubt extend this to any of the more popular platforms. Just give it time.
- jv2k, on 11/03/2009, -0/+1AVC lets you read comics illegally, but yea digital comics suck as of now.
At least marvel is trying(unlike DC) but at $1 a 40 year old issue I'll pass. - acroyear2, on 11/03/2009, -0/+1Let's put it this way, if Disney can attract a larger audience by making it more general audience they will do that because it will make more money. I mean, I sort of don't care. Marvel sucks. I miss my 1990s Dark Horse Presents.
- aserer511, on 11/03/2009, -0/+1you guys aren't wrong, I was. so here's the addendum-downloadable CROSS PLATFORM FLASH APPS. Adobe could make a "MobileFlash" spec with both on and offline components, and app developers would be able to develop cross platform, executable apps that will generate adobe and the platform/phone makers profit. some apps would be free, some not, etc. the platform would be solid and allow different apps to use the same APIs and code across the platforms to access music, GPS functionality, etc etc on each phone platform. ie. the syntax for "show paired bluetooth devices" would be the same code, and each different platform's runtime app would translate that to platform specific stuff. the "app store" wouldn't be a program-it'd simply be browser based so any phone could fetch any app
- jv2k, on 11/03/2009, -0/+1See but then it wont be a cell phone anymore
- lunachique, on 11/02/2009, -1/+1I think it would be great if it was done well. Besides Bone, I really got into Hellboy with the flash comics they used to have on the Playboy website.
- Peleus, on 11/02/2009, -1/+1Would be nice for iPod Touch as well. Download a comic, let your kid read it in the car. Could download more at wifi hot spots on a road trip.
- MacParrot, on 11/02/2009, -1/+1Disney didn't buy Marvel to get at their comics line to make any changes. They wanted them to get at the rights (especially movie/TV rights). They'll either buy or wait for the rights of Sony or Fox to expire and then start doing their own thing. The real holdup for video is how long it takes to create special effects and so on. Imagine Spider-Man or the Fantastic Four done entirely with Pixar/Dreamscape type computer graphics. The stories are already written, it just needs the proper medium to make them look good.
The Incredibles showed what a good story and great graphics could achieve with superheroes. Pixar wouldn't be involved though (as they seem to concentrate on original material), but Disney has their own computer graphics department (Meet the Robinsons, ect) that isn't too shabby. - sHockz, on 11/02/2009, -4/+3nergasm for comic lovers.....
- derektherock42, on 11/02/2009, -5/+3I just geekgasmed.
- aserer511, on 11/02/2009, -6/+3no no no, i'll say it once, and i'll say it again. the future of mobile content is not in apps, it's in mobile web pages with that content on it. for somethings, that will require flash, so we're a few years away. this can be done with a web service accessible from any mobile browser, with each page being a large .jpg, with static page forward, back, etc buttons at the top
- eljitto, on 11/02/2009, -4/+1Yup. but because Disney bought Marvel (or announced it) im gonna have to use hacks.
If it was marvel before Disney bought it, i'd pay. But i dont support any aspect of Disney- especially their anti-semitism - fms45, on 11/02/2009, -8/+4iPhone becomes a part of comic culture.
- acroyear2, on 11/02/2009, -5/+1Disney will ruin it. Give it a few more years.
- mikehayes19, on 11/02/2009, -13/+8Enjoy, nerds
- brathor, on 11/02/2009, -9/+4Interesting. Still will never purchase an Apple product as long as it is married to AT&T.
- debaser7673, on 11/02/2009, -10/+3now ur phone will let every one know u dont know what a vagina is
- sdipaola, on 11/02/2009, -13/+1No not Marvel, they would not let their greed take over their brand name and curation of the art form by extending into every possible form of bastardized media. Especially, they would not, if it meant ruining their art's place in the world by bastardizing it into media that would just make it a parody of itself. Oh wait, ...
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