iFanboy’s Jim Mroczkowski considers the wonders and dangers of the digital comics store:
If you browse just some of what’s available out there now, poring through the infinite back issue bin of the Internet, it will only be a matter of minutes before you find yourself at the bottom of the world’s most expensive rabbit hole. That run of JLA by Chris Claremont and John Byrne is out there. Defenders issues from 1975 are out there. You could read the original run of New Mutants this afternoon and wash it down with Ultimate Marvel Team-Up, the Ultimate book that time forgot. I opened up comiXology and started poking around for examples half an hour ago, and now I owe them $11,000.
Speaking as someone who’s gone from “Oh, I remember those Green Lanterns by Len Wein and Dave Gibbons from when I was a kid!” to “Why did I just buy all of them, oh God” in seconds, I know exactly where Jim is coming from. There are certain series I very purposefully don’t even look up on ComiXology, purely because I know it would bankrupt me.
February 25th, 2013 at 4:53 pm
I enjoyed the Wein/Gibbons issues I’ve read so far too… from the local public library, that is (Section 2814, Vol. 1, with Vol. 2 on the way later this year, hopefully also to my library). Hey Graeme, I thought you were hip to that!