Get a Comixology Unlimited subscription. The number one complaint I get from new readers is they have no idea where to start. Instead, Comixology Unlimited offers a rotating selection of comics from the biggest publishers in the American industry.
Update : And now the service even includes select DC Comics books. And when you do buy, Comixology subscribers get a 10 to 15 percent discount on all books from publishers involved in Comixology Unlimited.
Get a DC Universe subscription. Not to mention an ever expanding slate of surprisingly good streaming originals. Get a Marvel Unlimited subscription. The database is also searchable to reasonable accuracy by character, creator name, series name and even story arc. New comics hit the service with an approximately three-month delay.
Check out Crunchyroll or Shonen Jump. Now you do. The three most recent chapters of any current series, like Death Note , are available free on Shonen Jump, with new English translations of chapters available simultaneously with their release in Japan. A shopping cart is key to a desirable shopping experience.
After purchasing a handful of issues, I received a worried email from my credit card company, who thought that someone had stolen my card and began making impulse purchases. With a shopping cart, things probably would've seemed a little more reasonable. The troubles don't end after you buy a comic, either.
Despite having purchased comics, I randomly received notices while reading that I needed to purchase the rest of the comic to unlock further pages. These notices always appear a few pages into an issue, just long enough for a brief preview. As a consumer, there's nothing more unbelievable than being told that you need to buy something that you've already paid for. It's extremely off-putting, to say the least.
Finding a comic to purchase is a pain. Adding quotes to "Jeff Parker" results in a visual error. The next screen shows you "Search Results for ""Jeff Parker""" and no covers at all. What's more is that comics he didn't work on still appear in the list. That's unavoidable, I assume, but quotes are a key part of searching online, and I'm not sure why they aren't implemented properly in Marvel's search engine. But say you want to browse for comics to buy rather than searching for specific issues.
Good luck! Comics are listed by issue, and in release date order, rather than by series. I couldn't figure out a way to sort by Original Published Date, Avg. Rating, or Price, as clicking on those columns did nothing.
Clicking the arrow on Date Added to reverse the list did nothing but load for a lengthy amount of time until I clicked elsewhere on the screen, at which point it snapped into order.
Again, good luck: you have to know what you're searching for. There's no legitimate browse function, where you're given a list of series, creators, or characters. You have to search for them. The entire Browse function, in fact, is simply the same old search engine. There is a semi-browse function to be found under the Home, New, Featured, and Free menus. It's limited, of course, to just the books in the selection, but at least it's something.
This isn't error-free, either. The Ultimate Comics Thor button on the main page, Marvel's big and important day-and-digital book, actually leads to the page for Ultimate War , an old Mark Millar event comic with fantastic Chris Bachalo art. The same help page explains that certain comics are not available on Chrome, but are available on iOS devices. The help page promises further updates to the list, but not when or how books are chosen to go onto the list.
It also says that "the majority" of comics available on Marvel Comics on Chrome will be available if you purchase an account with Marvel Digital Comics Unlimited, and titles that aren't will be available for just single issue purchase.
How do they decide? These are important questions that need to be answered before consumers can make informed decisions, but there are no answers on the site. You can't just shoot your friends a link to an individual comic, either.
As near as I can tell, comics don't have individual URLs, such as chrome. The URLs are relative to your account, and the Share This button is essentially broken due to the fact that it has entirely too many options.
It allows you to share to what appears to be every single social network ever invented, including all of the ones you avoid going to.
The Share This option opens a tiny window with dozens of choices, and you can search to narrow the field. In fact, I only know what two of those are, and one sounds like a dating site for fortysomethings. And yet, all of those sites and what appears to be dozens more, are available. There are two Twitter options, for Pete's sake, and neither of them actually work.
If you narrow it down to the one you want and manage to create a link in that tiny window, then you'll quickly find that the link goes not to Marvel Comics on Chrome, but to Marvel Digital Comics Unlimited. Let's be honest. People these days use StumbleUpon, Tumblr, bit.
Narrow it down to these and a separate box for just a URL and you'll be in business. As is, sharing is annoying, and if it's annoying, you basically kill word of mouth.
There are a few other steps Marvel could take to make Marvel Comics on Chrome more attractive. They edit covers to remove creator credits which are displayed on the screen immediately before the comic instead.
Why not throw the variant covers for each issue into the pack? Or uncolored covers, or pencils, or something like that? Marvel posts hi-res versions of their covers with no cover copy at all on the site. Why not integrate those into the comics we purchase? We should also be able to use a shopping cart, browse books by series or creator, and smoother keyboard control would be fantastic.
On top of all of that, though, Marvel Comics on Chrome needs someone to take a hard look at its user interface and make it user-friendly. Shouldn't they just be one? What we have now is a half-measure.
Marvel's digital strategy is confusing, to say the least. You have several options, each with their own pros and cons, and respectable libraries on each service. So, where do you go? There's no easy answer. Honestly, there isn't even a right answer. Marvel Unlimited is a digital platform in which fans can access all of these titles and so much more.
Available to download as an app on both android and apple devices, this is a charged service which is constantly updated with brand new comics. It's designed to help Marvel to enter a new digital age and rivals the likes of DC Universe and Comixology. Despite Marvel owning Marvel Unlimited, there is an in-built delay between the time that a comic is published in the real world and when it released on the digital platform.
That means that sometimes comic stories can be a few months behind on the app in comparison to what can be bought in stores. This puts it at a disadvantage to the likes of Comixology, where the comics are available to buy instantly. However, every title is included in the overall price and this is also a method of protecting the physical industry so that there is still an incentive to support iconic comic book stores.
While Comixology Unlimited isn't actually easily available internationally, Marvel Unlimited isn't exclusive to the United States. Indeed, in many markets, including in Europe and Asia, it's available to download and can be logged into anywhere in the world with a pre-existing account.
While users may be charged in US dollars, international payments are accepted and the app can be enjoyed by anyone across the world. This is an important feature and the app is not different based on the market in comparison to something like Netflix which shifts based on the country. There's a number of crucial things about this basic pricing though. For starters, fans can get a 7-day free trial.
After this though, the monthly subscription will be taken automatically, with a warning in place to app users that this will occur.
The price includes every single comic available on the app and there are no additional price firewalls that users may come across when looking to enjoy classic titles.
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