Yeah. Too bad we didn't have Internet and lightweight tablet PCs with crazy specs.
I might go back to reading comics regularly!
I think we did have internet at home around that time. Compuserve or aol maybe. But yeah, these kids have it good today!
eworld maybe?
So the days of collecting comic books in hope they will someday increase in value are over. There will never be another first edition of anything that a collector will want. So it goes I guess...
YAWN
Seriously, who reads comics in 2012? How many times can Superman die, then return to life?
It's funny, all these comments. DC Comics and Marvel and tons of other publishers have been selling digital versions of their comics on Comixology and other platforms for a while now. There is no "embracing the future".
It appears many people are not aware there have been digital editions for awhile now.
I can't wait until I have kids and I can sell my iPad comics to help pay for their tuition.
Buy or collecting anything with the intention of it increasing in value so be very so-so. I have a bit of an issue with digital comics, it leaves no room to give away, trade, sell if one wishes to plus the pricing is questionable. Personally I am just a reader, however being just a reader I cannot say I mind finding out that comic I bought is now worth fifty dollars because it became a hit, I can sell the lot, buy the trade if I want and that the rest.
Of late I noticed how much Walking Dead issue one is going for, I would have bought a pile of those. It looks like I rather comics be worth more as a reader then a collector because if I am collection I likely rather not be tempted to sell unless that is not an issue then it can be cool having some rare books. As a reader I surely do not mind if any random issue becomes valuable, I just want to read them so even breaking even would be great instead of the insane drop they currently have.
This would have been awesome for me in 1991.
Yeah but compared to some companies who say screw it, who cares about giving our customers a good digital experience, this is nice to hear every once in a while.
Seeing the list of publishers on Comixology, I'm not sure there's really a lot who think like you've just said.
And frankly, iBook to me is "screw it, who cares about giving our customers a good digital experience". The iBookstore is not a good digital experience, it's DRM'ed, single-vendor, single-platform, lock-in.
I would die to get Heavy Metal (and its French counterpart) on iBooks. I have all the original HM mags.Heavy Metal magazine (former Metal Hurlant), HellBoy or anything by Dave McKean, Serpieri, Vertigo
NO Marvel or DC comics.
All the e-book's are like that... the only the difference is Amazon provide kindle app's for multi platforms.
Seeing the list of publishers on Comixology, I'm not sure there's really a lot who think like you've just said.
And frankly, iBook to me is "screw it, who cares about giving our customers a good digital experience". The iBookstore is not a good digital experience, it's DRM'ed, single-vendor, single-platform, lock-in.
Back in 1991, there was basically AOL for DOS (in the US), CompuServe, and a couple of others.
With a top of the line 14.4kbps modem, it'd take approximately 7 hours (!) to download one copy of a comic, which would instantly fill up your brand new hard drive.
Today I could download a few thousand comics in a couple of minutes -and wirelessly- on a tablet thinner than a book.
How times have changed...
mega nerds rejoice.....
You chose to ignore the "single-vendor, single-platform" part of my post. That was an AND proposition there, not an OR. iBook is a bad experience because it's DRM'ed, AND single vendor, AND single platform, AND only exists to promote vendor lock-in to Apple's ecosystem.
At least with Comixology, all I need is a web browser.
I so agree. I currently have subscriptions to Batman, Batman & Robin, Nightwing and Justice League. If they offered subscription based pricing I'd gladly switch over to digital and save space in my house.They need subscription based pricing. Its too much to keep up with several series on a one-time buy plan...
Awesome to ponder isn't it?
I remember getting a new computer in the mid-90's and decided to fork over the money to upgrade my HARD DRIVE from 4 to 8 GB.
One of my friends was like, "Why would you ever need that much space? Are you going to download encyclopedias?"
It's great that more and more digital titles are making the leap.