Something in the press release from Marvel yesterday, announcing the digital download codes to appear in every issue of the Ultimate Comics line as of next year:
The Ultimate Comics line made history in 2010 with the first line of comics to be offered digitally on the same day print editions hit stores, beginning with Ultimate Comics Thor #1.
If you read that and thought, “Wait, what?” then join the club – not least of all because the Ultimate line actually went line-wide day-and-date in February of this year with the “Death of Spider-Man” storyline in Ultimate Spider-Man and Ultimate Avengers vs. New Ultimates. Look, there was even a press release about that, too.
The real “first line of comics to be offered digitally on the same day [as] print editions” is, of course, Archie Comics, which went day-and-date in January this year. So, why did Marvel’s PR include this completely untrue piece of information, especially when it’s so easily disproven?
November 11th, 2011 at 3:34 pm
The funny thing is, even if you accept Marvel’s apparent claim that Ultimate Thor being day-and-date in October 2010 was the start of the whole line doing so… well, then you have to apply the same logic to DC, which went same-day digital with Justice League: Generation Lost in June of that year.
So they’re still wrong.
November 11th, 2011 at 3:39 pm
Marvel still put out the first day-and-date digital comic from either of the Big Two, which was that Iron Man annual from spring of 2010.
Granted, that was the one they split into three “chapters,” which cost a dollar more combined than the print price, but still.
November 11th, 2011 at 6:29 pm
Barry Convex: Trust someone with a screen name as spectacular as yours to provide such an accurate insight.
See you in Pittsburgh.
November 12th, 2011 at 6:16 pm
Self-correction: the Iron Man annual I mentioned above was just the first day-and-date comic from the big two to be ANNOUNCED. DC’s Justice League: Generation Lost #1 actually shipped first.
November 14th, 2011 at 7:31 am
A Powerful company claiming something to be true that’s very easily disproven? You don’t say! Give it time, it will become retroactively true the more often they say it. That’s how truth works these days.
November 14th, 2011 at 11:19 am
HA!
I love it when everyone “tries” to claim firsts in digital production and publishing/distribution…
Since 1990 I offered a free FULL online viewing ( including the words ) of my printed comic books the day they were distributed to the stores!
November 14th, 2011 at 1:34 pm
And I’m sure all 5 people who read your comics are defending your claim.