Comments on: One Month Later: Who Bought The New 52 Digitally?

By: Isaac

Isaac — Mon, 10 Oct 2011 22:35:59 +0000

I for one would sooner quit reading superhero comics than switch to digital.

By: B.G. Christensen

B.G. Christensen — Sat, 08 Oct 2011 03:23:48 +0000

I went digital with the New 52. I buy the titles I’m most excited about on release day and wait a month for those I’m interested in but not so excited about, to save a dollar. The New 52 even inspired me to start a blog about digital comics at http://pixelatedpanels.blogspot.com.

By: metr0man

metr0man — Thu, 06 Oct 2011 20:33:58 +0000

Well there’s an artificial limitation here… digital only works for people who have tablets (iPads, and some of the better Android tablets).

I’m sure there are SOME people who are reading digital comics primarily on their computer or smartphone but I think its mostly tablet users. Artificial limitation there.

By: Dean Phillips

Dean Phillips — Thu, 06 Oct 2011 06:14:20 +0000

I buy all my comics in print. I see them as entertainment AND a collectible. I can loan my copy to a friend. Hey, can I borrow your $500 IPad for a week so I can read your new 52 DCs? I can even resell my books if I choose to. Sell me one of your digital books you no longer want. I will only spend real money on something that I physically can own. My comics also never run out of batteries!

By: Tanner

Tanner — Wed, 05 Oct 2011 19:39:16 +0000

I bought 47 print and 1 digital (but I ended up buying that one in print). I don’t like the way comics look on my phone or computer, but I may end up getting a Kindle fire.

By: Brian

Brian — Wed, 05 Oct 2011 18:57:01 +0000

I’m buying it mostly digital. It’s all personal reasons really. I don’t have the room to keep all these comics anymore, in fact I sold off/gave away about 75% of my collection. As I’ve gotten older comics have become a pure reading experience for me and hold no monetary value in my eyes. If I really want to keep a comic I’ll buy the collection of it, the only single issues I’ve kept have been books that hold high sentimental value (like my entire New Mutants run) or you can’t get in trade (DnA’s Legion) or have great artist (Art Adams). If I get a physical copy of a comic after I read it I’ll give it to someone.

Digital won’t replace Physical comics anytime soon, and from what I can tell DC thinks the same thing. Digital was a push they made to reach people who just don’t read comics or don’t have access to them as easily as others. So for them it’s just extra money, not a replacement.

What I want is for DC to just do a monthly subscription so that I can just read stuff when I want to. I just have no desire to own them anymore, just to read them. Again this is my personal take on things.

By: David

David — Wed, 05 Oct 2011 18:21:45 +0000

Yeah I am not big on the digital thing, and I know people are going to rip me apart for saying that but I don’t give a crap because in my little world… I am the only person whose opinion matters. I like print, and I will always be a print person. So if things go pure digital I will drop comics, at least the new ones.

But I think we are still a little ways from print completely dying out. I can see monthly comics going pure digital, but still putting out printed trades and graphic novels.

By: Glenn Simpson

Glenn Simpson — Wed, 05 Oct 2011 17:21:42 +0000

I’m all print right now, but that’s because I can get my $2.99 DC comics for $1.79 plus a little shipping from Discount Comic Book Service.

If digital pricing goes below $1.79 (or for some reason I lose the ability to get that discount), I may consider digital.

By: Jason

Jason — Wed, 05 Oct 2011 15:16:48 +0000

Wait, WHAT! They will drop the prices on the digital after a month of release?! I bought all of my books digital this month, if I’d known that I could get them cheaper I would totally wait a month. I went the digital route because I found out too late that all the titles my kids were interested in were sold out or supposed to be sold out, and I didn’t want to waste a trip to the comic store. I figured digital would be easier, and there is nothing for the kids to rip.

By: Greg

Greg — Wed, 05 Oct 2011 12:41:56 +0000

I’ve been out of the comics scene for 15 years, only reason i am now back in is because DC relaunched (accessibility from a story line point of view) and because they went same day digital (accessible from a physical purchase point of view).

I have zero interest in print and am super happy comics are finally coming around to the digital side of things

By: joey west

joey west — Wed, 05 Oct 2011 06:00:39 +0000

jh williams art doesn’t quite work digitally

By: Dan

Dan — Wed, 05 Oct 2011 03:11:59 +0000

I bought a little over 20 books the first month on the iPad and loved it. That’s 20 books more than I bought the month before. Now I think I’ll probably skip a month and collect books at the 2 dollar price point. My nephew is 2 and in a couple of years I’ll be able to lend him my iPad and let him read all weekend long… Well, some books at least. He’s probably got a while before he’d appreciate the delicate sensibilities of Catwoman.

By: turkish101

turkish101 — Wed, 05 Oct 2011 03:00:11 +0000

Haven’t bought any, in either form. Haven’t even been tempted to ‘try’ some of them via piracy (something I do occasionally). Just absolutely no interest in a reboot that’s put together by the very same people who brought DC to actually need a reboot.

That said, I am very curious about how many people are buying digital, and what sales are like.

By: Geek Gazette

Geek Gazette — Wed, 05 Oct 2011 02:46:29 +0000

I’m doing a mixture of print and digital. There are just some books(Flash, Superman, Action, all Justice League books, Aquaman, Wonder Woman) that I want to only read in print. Others that I may enjoy, but aren’t too desperate to read (Blackhawks, Voodoo, Teen Titans, All Star Wester), I’m buying those in digital only. I don’t mind waiting the extra month to get them cheaper. If I had to buy them all in print only, I would skip the books I’m buying in digital form all together. So having both formats has encouraged me to buy more comics than before.

By: ReaGT

ReaGT — Wed, 05 Oct 2011 02:40:20 +0000

I went with digital. I have young children, so I am especially happy with that decision given Catwoman, Voodoo and Red Hood and the Outlaws. Reading off an iPad is incredible. I love the feel of holding a book and would consider buying favorite TCB’s, but the digital experience is wonderful now. It also cuts down the sheer volume of books we have here!

By: Michael Cross

Michael Cross — Wed, 05 Oct 2011 02:06:25 +0000

Print only! I will never buy digital. I prefer reading off of an actual physical book, the experience is MUCH better than reading off a screen. People spend enough time staring at screens and monitors all day anyways, between their tv’s, computers, phones, etc. Reading is a hobby for me, and I don’t want to have to spend any more time hooked up to an electronic device than I have to.

By: Mavrik

Mavrik — Wed, 05 Oct 2011 01:59:11 +0000

Digital for me. I’m not a collector, I’m a reader. And if DC or Marvel want to expand their readers they should be going after the “readers” and not the collectors.

And it’s these comments that show that there will always be “collectors” true to the comic medium and there will be people who just like to read them but not have stacks and boxes down in their basement or up in their attic. Sure you can sell them or do whatever, but digitally it makes it a lot easier to read them on your iPad and other tablet devices.

By: Matthew Lane

Matthew Lane — Wed, 05 Oct 2011 01:10:42 +0000

No paying for digital for me thanks… Nothing against the idea but frankly when i can pirate a comic book an get a better quality scan, the letter pages, the commercials (or not depending on your preference), i don’t need to be online to read them & they are free: Why would i purchase the official digital version?

But beyond that i prefer to have a real physical copy of the material, rather then digital, so its not like i plan on purchasing it twice… But thats not been a problem with the reboot, as there is very little i like in this reboot so far.

By: Evil Greg

Evil Greg — Tue, 04 Oct 2011 23:41:09 +0000

I bought 47 of the 52 digitally and 1 physical copy of Aquaman. I plan on keeping about 40 titles (God help my budget!)and will exclusively buy digital going forward.

By: mbsprime

mbsprime — Tue, 04 Oct 2011 21:35:22 +0000

Fully digital, but I’m open to buying the premiere hardcover of the runs I love.

By: silvanthalas

silvanthalas — Tue, 04 Oct 2011 21:06:31 +0000

“Before you know it, your entire life is on your nook or ipad and when its gone, so is what you have.”

Your house burns down. Then what do you have?

“And there is no value in it.”

Not all of us need to have some mythical future monetary value in our comics. But then, how much value is there in any comic bought in the last 20 years anyways?

I get value out of simply reading comics, whether they’re in my hands or on my computer.

By: Chris Barnhart

Chris Barnhart — Tue, 04 Oct 2011 21:02:44 +0000

Hey Mark, no one ever said that I never read a digital comic before. I have, its not the same feeling for me. OK. Is that fine? I find it sick that people are so caught up in their digital worlds with PDFs and digital this and digital that. Before you know it, your entire life is on your nook or ipad and when its gone, so is what you have.

And there is no value in it. If you are a collector, the fun part was always finding the old back issues. Now I can just deposit $2 and get the issue. No need to leave my house. No need to go to the comic store, no need to socialize. Now comic book stores will go under. Then what happens when print ends? Digital goes up in price.

Sorry Mark, Ive read digital comics. And its not the same.

By: Carlos Lombardi

Carlos Lombardi — Tue, 04 Oct 2011 20:12:08 +0000

I live in Brazil. I do not want to wait a whole year for the Panini local editions. They wont publish all the 52 and they work with very cheap papper. To import a 3bucks comic costs 9 bucks here, a lot of government taxes. Now I can buy the titles I want in the same day they are sold in Usa. Digital is the obvious way for readers who live abroad.

By: Ralph C.

Ralph C. — Tue, 04 Oct 2011 20:08:26 +0000

None of them.

By: Johnstone

Johnstone — Tue, 04 Oct 2011 20:06:51 +0000

No local comic shops, digital is too much. So I read all my comics by downloading scans. Make scans cheaper and I might buy… but for now, thanks for the free comics

By: Philip A Moore

Philip A Moore — Tue, 04 Oct 2011 19:16:20 +0000

I bought in both formats most print as it fun to visit my comic shop guy and hold something in my hands printed were u ones I was considering but did not purchase or ones he sold out on .

By: John Paul

John Paul — Tue, 04 Oct 2011 19:07:39 +0000

I backed off of print two years ago, and I’ve switched to digital only. But I won’t pay $2.99 period. When a set of digital issues go to $0.99 on sale, I’ll purchase ten or twenty new to me or ones I already own in print. It’s not the money, it’s the obnoxious price point of an individual issue. I’d even commit to a year subscription to get it at $0.99. If the new 52 were $0.99 each, I’d have bought all 52. As it is, I bought one issue of Wonder Woman just this once at full price. I’ll purchase others when they go to $0.99 and not before.

By: Billy

Billy — Tue, 04 Oct 2011 19:01:26 +0000

I do both. Digital to read and paper to collect.

By: Tformer4

Tformer4 — Tue, 04 Oct 2011 18:59:17 +0000

I still buy only print, and don’t see that changing until the price structure of digital comics changes. I buy all my comics on-line through mycomicshop.com so I get a huge discount becuase of all the books I buy and never have to pay cover price. If there was a similar discount structure for bulk digital purchase I may consider buying some digitally, but still love collecting print copies of significant issues. The 75% of what I buy that ends up at half price books after I finish I would consider getting digitally.

By: K-Box

K-Box — Tue, 04 Oct 2011 18:42:50 +0000

“I see that Mr. Negativity-To-DC-Comics is back.”

That’s Mr.-Negativity-To-EVERYONE, thank you, Marvel included.

“How about you show some guts and comment if you’ve actually been buying digital issues or not, instead of trying to cast another black mark against DC Comics?!?”

Even $1.99 is too high for digital, so no.