I live in rural NM, and getting physical comics is a trek. I used to use Comixology, but missed physical books so much I opened a comic and game shop in my small town. The comic side of things failed, my game sales were financing the comics. So after just over a year i cancelled my comic account to focus on the games.
Since then Amazon took over comixology and moved shopping for comics onto Amazon, which after three days of trying to find titles I have decided to explore other avenues.
I know when I was selling comic books marvel had their own app, do all of the publishers have those? Or is Amazon the only name in the game?
I am looking to catch up on Dynamite’s Red Sonya, Marvel’s Conan, Elfquest, anything X-Force, X-23, and probably Firefly. I have not read a comic since my last order came into the shop in January 2020. The news of the new X-23 series is what started to pull me back in again, I did manage to get a subscription to that on Amazon.
Outside of Comixology, there’s Marvel Unlimited and DC Universe Infinite:
https://www.marvel.com/mu-24deadpool
https://www.dcuniverseinfinite.com
Obviously both limited to Marvel and DC respectively.
Those are the LEGITIMATE sources. There are other ILLEGITIMATE sources but a) We don’t talk about Bruno and b) In my experience, they are full of spam, malware, and .ru domains that can’t be trusted.
Yeah. Both great options!
Marvel Unlimited is getting to be pretty fantastic. A few years ago there were big noticeable gaps in key series, and lots of mistakes in ordering of reading lists.
But recently I’ve been able to choose a character and binge read almost every issue of that character that was ever printed, in pretty close to publication order, with few gaps or misorderings.
DC Universe infinite was also pretty solid last time I tried it, and having streams of many of their animated films (which are each, on average, fantastic) was a very nice addition.
Edit: Anyone know of other comic publishers going this way? I would be happy to chuck some money at Dark Horse or DreamWave (RIP? Or are they back?) or others some months.
IDW had one at one point but it looks like it folded. :(
I thought idw went out of business. Or was that just their game division?
It’s been a near thing, but the comics side is still hanging on.
These are the legitimate sources for the absolute most recent comics, but I do want to point out that there are a good number of slightly older comics on the Hoopla app, which you can access through your local library. If you want to catch up on some older stuff it’s also an entirely legitimate way to do it.