Marvel Digital Comics Unlimited--Am I in Heaven?

[Felon]

Somehow Marvel's bold leap into the 21st century managed to elude me until now. Thousands of titles available for online viewing, and at a cost that I can only describe with a word I thought I'd never actually apply to a comic book again: cheap!

$10 a month, or $5 a month in one annual sum of $60. They may jack up prices if they see trade paperback sales go down, but until then...make mine Marvel!

 

[JoeGKushner]

I'm waiting for the library to get better.

Tring to find stuff like the Sentry and old Thunderbolts with no luck and some of the titles they do have up raises the old eyebrow.

 

[Inferno!]

This has eluded me too. Do you have a link?

 

[Angel Tarragon]

This is definetely something I'd want to look into. Link please?

 

[Cthulhudrew]

Heh. I like how they list Marvel Team-Up and show the cover to #25 with Spidey and Daredevil, but the only issues they actually have are the Kirkman issues from 2004-2006 (vol 3 of the title, I think).

If they had more really old stuff, I might consider it. Guess I'll wait until then.

 

[Felon]

You can find it by going to marvel.com. They started the service in November, so they're pushing it pretty hard right now.

Here's where you can see a list of all titles: http://www.marvel.com/digitalcomics/titles/

I too hope the collection will expand at a rapid pace (particularly all of those Thunderbolts issued they never put into trades). They currently seem to be adding about 100 issues a month. However, I think it's helpful to know when your eyes are bigger than your stomach; they have more than enough to satisfy the free time I have, and even if I only read a dozen titles in a month, that's less than a buck apiece.

 

[Klaus]

The Marvel Digital Comics Unlimited is getting lots of flak because:

1) Once you stop paying, you lose access to all titles, so you're not "buying" them, you're "renting" them;

2) You must be on-line to read. No downloading to read in a laptop or any other computer without Internet access.

 

[Felon]

1) Once you stop paying, you lose access to all titles, so you're not "buying" them, you're "renting" them;

2) You must be on-line to read. No downloading to read in a laptop or any other computer without Internet access.

Wow, those people complaining need a reality check.

It's an online subscription based service. If they're not online, they don't get the service. If they're not subscribed anymore, they don't get the service.

It's like going to Netflix and using the "Watch It Now" feature. If you stopped paying for your Netflix account, or disconnected your modem, you'd be pretty silly to resent Netflix when you find yourself unable to watch movies. Oh, and don't expect to get any more movies in the mail at that point either.

If Marvel were trying to charge a fee for individual issues, I could understand complaints of this nature. But for $5 a month someone wants to "buy" and harvest all available titles, download them onto a hard drive, and (let's face it) have thousands of people sharing them through peer-to-peer clients? Yeah, that's a reasonable expection. :\

However, by all accounts I don't think there's a great deal of flack. It's a pretty successful endeavor so far. Deservedly so.

 

[Klaus]

My biggest complain (other than the fact that it's Marvel, and Marvel is teh suxxorz ) would be the on-line only restriction.

 

[Felon]

It would certainly be sweet to be able to download'em on to some kind of portable media player, but I can understand Marvel not providing their comics in a piratable format.

But I'm pretty happy with this. I'll probably have recouped the $60 annual fee by the time the weekend's over.