Aaaaaand that’s a full set. IDW have officially announced today that they’re going linewide day-and-date through ComiXology (They’ve actually been doing it quietly since last month on selected titles; the press release today mentions that the addition of IDW titles “helped lift comiXology’s same-day-as-print offering over the 50% threshold,” which is really kind of amazing when you stop to think about it) as part of a larger announcement about the company’s digital output – including specific apps for  Transformers, GI Joe, Doctor Who and other titles -now being powered by ComiXology. This means that Diamond’s entire “premiere publishers” – IDW, Dark Horse, DC, Image and Marvel, AKA, the front half (and accompanying Marvel catalog) of Previews – have committed to same-date digital release of their comics by March 2012, with all but Marvel pricing their comics as same price as print for the first four weeks, and then a dollar cheaper afterwards (Marvel doesn’t do a price drop after four weeks – yet). And to think, this time last year, no publisher was linewide day-and-date digital…

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