Marvel has not responded to many requests for an interview or to give us a definitive reason why they have suspended single
issue comics across the entire retail trade.
Not exact matches
He is once again defeated by a merry band of superheroes
across a number of various
comic book
issues.
And indeed, the first three
issues were done DC2 style, but as a glance at their comiXology page will show, the next six
issues are not (DC gathers three digital - first
comics into a single
issue for print, so the covers are uniform
across each arc).
The third
issue of Tom Taylor's digital - first Injustice: Year Two takes the second slot; this is consistently one of the best - selling digital
comics across all platforms.
Some specifics: It's got access to 13,000 back
issues, lets you add
comics to your library like you would in Spotify or Rdio, can store six
issues for offline reading (ugh, yes, we'll get to that), sorts by character, series, creator, or events (think Civil War, Onslaught, etc.), and syncs your downloaded
comics across all your devices.
Dark Horse announced a new homegrown digital
comics app that will work
across the various Apple devices and on the web, offering single
issues for $ 1.49.
The
issues you raise about the failure of the traditional distribution model are the same
across film and
comics.
Issues across the DC canon have been selling — this includes the New 52 batch to
comics from five or 10 years ago.
ComiXology is the largest seller of single -
issue digital
comics across several devices (iOS, Android, and web browsers), and the only retailer that sells single -
issue comics from the two largest publishers, Marvel and DC.
You never have to read everything in * any *
comics anthology you come
across (unless it's those back
issues of Penthouse Men's Adventure I sent down to Guantanamo Bay).
«We're very pleased to offer our line of single -
issue comics digitally to fans
across the world,» Richardson continued.
In this first
issue of the
comic, we follow the journey of Aya after she's left Egypt and ventured
across the sea to Rome.
It's the first
issue of Marvel's new Star Wars
comic, with a cover featuring Han Solo and Chewbacca delivering Loot Crates
across the galaxy.