Digital Comic Book Shops?

useless4

So about two years ago I got all excited about digital comics I could read on my computer in .CBR/.CBZ formats, I just never bought one.

Now that I am going on an extended trip to places without entertainment I thought "Hey let's buy some!" and I totally can't find the sites again... it's like they all disappeared off the face of the planet. What happened??!?

Anyone have a place to buy comics I can download?

ZombieAsuma

Ummm Wowio.com? Thats one of the only digital comics site that comes to mind. Marvel just launched a digital comics site too.

Virral

If you like Marvel comics, they have a decent online service. The catch is its a subscription model, you don't download the comics you pay a per-month/year fee and view as many as you want online while your subscription is active.

Robos A Go Go

Did Marvel ever get around to paying its creators royalties for online distribution of their work?

TravisLegge

I would also advise just hitting the top 100 webcomics lists and checking out some of that stuff. There are ALOT of webcomics ou there that are awesome reads. xkcd, questionable content, thedevilspanties, oh, I dunno....Penny-Arcade?

Just a thought.

Munch

Robos A Go Go wrote: »

Did Marvel ever get around to paying its creators royalties for online distribution of their work?

I think they were still trying to see if it'd make enough of a profit to pay out royalties. Or something.

The question is, how do you pay royalties on an entire catalog of comics dating back several decades? Since readers can't download individual issues it really complicates things. Do you pay every creator who has a book on the site a portion of the profits, even if readers aren't actually reading their work?

useless4

Marvel is out of the question I think - doesn't it require internet connectivity to read? also I have a mac so that cripples things that other people normally get to enjoy.

I would love to see if New Universe titles are on there. I have the overwhelming urge to see if DP7 was as cool as it was to 10 year old me. I was blown away by the whole thing back then and it still influences me and my ideas of fiction. I bet it doesn't live up to that.

Robos A Go Go

Munch wrote: »

Robos A Go Go wrote: »

Did Marvel ever get around to paying its creators royalties for online distribution of their work?

I think they were still trying to see if it'd make enough of a profit to pay out royalties. Or something.

The question is, how do you pay royalties on an entire catalog of comics dating back several decades? Since readers can't download individual issues it really complicates things. Do you pay every creator who has a book on the site a portion of the profits, even if readers aren't actually reading their work?

Yes, do that.

If a particular book doesn't seem worth what you're paying to the writer and artist, then just take it down.

Munch

Oh, totally forgot that 2000 AD does have a pretty good digital comics selection up at Clickwheel, where you can find many other digital comics. And if you're interested in reading Marvel comics, they recently put out several DVD-Rs with like, 25 years worth of stories on each one. I know they have them for Fantastic Four, Hulk, X-Men, and the Avengers. They're like 50 bucks each on Amazon, but for how much you get it's a pretty good deal.

Virral

There is definitely an Iron Man DVD too, and I think a Spider-Man one (not sure which title, presumably Amazing). I'm pretty sure these were discontinued when the Marvel subscription service started up, but there are plenty of them still floating around.

Virral

Here we go,

Iron Man (1963 - 2006)
Captain America (1964 - 2006)
Amazing Spider-Man (1963 - 2006)
X-Men (1963 - 2005)
Incredible Hulk (1962 - 2006)
Avengers (1963 - 2005)
Fantastic Four (1961 - 2004)
Fantastic Four and the Silver Surfer (prob some crossover with above)
Ghost Rider (???? - 2004)
Ultimate X-Men (not sure where it goes up to)

The Ghost Rider and UXM are under $20, the rest between $35-$50. I've heard the main downside to these would be that they follow a single run, meaning crossovers aren't included... so if the X-Men crossed over with X-Factor (or whatever) you would only get the X-Men issues and not X-Factor.

Robos A Go Go

Wonder if navigation is easier than Marvel's site. Reading that Secret Invasion preview sucked.

Virral

I'm pretty sure they are just PDF or CBR files in a big directory, I doubt there is a fancy menu or reader software included.

useless4

Ok so no one remembers the two or three sites from two years ago that had comics in cbr format that you could buy and download?!?