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Digital Delights – The Marvel ComiXology 99c Conspiracies

Published Mon, 07 Nov 2011 08:00:23 -0600

Last updated Wed, 07 Dec 2011 10:36:49 -0600

HiddenHistoryDelight: Two of Marvel's hidden histories come to 99c on ComiXology today. The Marvels Project by Ed Brubaker and Steve Epting, looking to the runup to World War II in the Marvel Universe, 8 beautifully told issues for 99 cents each, a total of $7.92, and a sizeable reduction on the current Amazon print price, say, of $21.89.

The other however, New Avengers: Illuminati by Brian Bendis, Brian Reed and Jim Cheung is also 99 cents for each of the five issues, $4.95 in total, but the Amazon price is just $5.48, so you may decide to go for something for the physical bookshelf. A rather fun reappraisal of many Marvel comic book events from yesteryear in the light of the top busybodies of Marvel Comics getting involved behind the scenes in a conspiratorial fashion.

Although, with the digital version, you could just not pay for issue three where Secret Wars II is retconned away as an imaginary story, and pretend it doesn't exist, like we all try and do with the print version.

MangaDelight: Dark Horse's manga comics App looks to launch all sorts of Dark Horse manga onto an unsuspecting public.

Each title costs about $5.99 – $6.99 per volume, which is much less than the usual $9.95 – $14.95 per volume cover price of these same titles. (Although they currently only accept credit card payments for digital titles, vs. PayPal, Google Checkout or other convenient online payment methods) Best of all, Dark Horse promises to release new volumes each month, if not sooner.

Hopefully, we'll be seeing more recently-released titles added to the Dark Horse Digital line-up, including their CLAMP titles like Magic Knight Rayearth and Gate 7, long-runing favorites like Gantz, Berserk, and Oh My Goddess!, their Neon Genesis Evangelion titles like Campus Apocalypse and The Shinji Ikari Raising Project, and lesser-known but no-less-worth-reading titles like Eden: It's an Endless World! and MPD Psycho.

MemoryDelight: Paul Rainey is one of my favourite underrated British comic book creators. I was first taken by his Memory Man series, but he's really taken to computer colouring his work in a fashion that may just make it more mainstream than he's achieved in the past. Basically, what if Dan Clowes worked oin the Beano. Someone should pick him up and pay him money. He starts the second story in his Thunder Brothers webcomic today. And you can read the whole first book from the bottom of this webpage too,