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[Dr. Solar]

This looks like a hack article written by someone who doesn't understand the comic book industry.

[greg]

This looks like a hack article written by someone who doesn't understand the comic book industry.

The core of your statement can explain 99.9% of the internet...

article written by someone who doesn't understand

[chriskay99]

Well if I can't trust Goodereader.com for breaking reliable comic book news, I don't know where to turn.

[Bone-A-Fach-ee]

Debunked by Bleeding Cool this morning, here: http://www.bleedingcool.com/2014/03/06/ ... rint-past/
Again, sorry for being the alarmist!

[IMJ]

It's very clear that the industry is going to go digital - and as the generations of comic book readers find that to be more and more the norm, the print media will vanish.

I think it will take another generation before we see any real move towards preference for digital products. My kids who are 10 and 15 still read books while we have an ipad. Their kids may be the first generation that prefers the ipad to a book.

At this point sales of digital comics are less than 10% of total comic book sales. That number is actually skewed more towards Image and other independents who have a younger, hipper audience. Why would Marvel (or anyone else) abandon 90% of the marketplace? It would have to turn in the opposite direction (10% real, 90% digital) for them to abandon print.

NOTHING besides Direct Market (Comic book stores) has worked to distribute comics. People want to go into a comic book shop, talk to real people, come to events, see other books available, leaf through them. No way to duplicate that, Comixology interface is busy and not friendly.

Ya I agree with most of this. It seems like you are trying to take a polar opposite position from what I've said, but both things can be true.

[Aram]

I don't see comics ever going completely digital across the board. Maybe the big 2 and a few others, but many independents would continue to pop up in rebellion and I think it would become more a cult market.

I wouldn't be surprised to just see digital and tpbs mainstream in our lifetime though, with individual floppies only limited to tiny limited collector print runs for the old timers to chase.

[kjjohanson]

I don't see comics ever going completely digital across the board. Maybe the big 2 and a few others, but many independents would continue to pop up in rebellion and I think it would become more a cult market.

I wouldn't be surprised to just see digital and tpbs mainstream in our lifetime though, with individual floppies only limited to tiny limited collector print runs for the old timers to chase.

Unless increases in paper/printing costs far outpace inflation, I think even Marvel and DC will continue with continue with print editions. I imagine a decent portion of their sales are still collectors, who may not even read every book they buy, or only read it because they purchased it to collect. Go digital only and a lot of people are going to see that the content that's not tied to the commodity isn't worth the price.

[buff-beardo]

I don't read marvel anymore so that is fine by me. More $ for the other companies!

[ian_house]

I agree with you guys that the article is crap and this is unlikely as yet. BUT Marvel do look to be pushing more and more towards digital as an actual alternative to print rather than 'as well as'. I still don't understand the thinking about taking one of their biggest characters and writers and moving them to digital ONLY - Waid's Daredevil.

[kjjohanson]

I agree with you guys that the article is crap and this is unlikely as yet. BUT Marvel do look to be pushing more and more towards digital as an actual alternative to print rather than 'as well as'. I still don't understand the thinking about taking one of their biggest characters and writers and moving them to digital ONLY - Waid's Daredevil.

Is that what's happening with the new series?

[Heath]

I agree with you guys that the article is crap and this is unlikely as yet. BUT Marvel do look to be pushing more and more towards digital as an actual alternative to print rather than 'as well as'. I still don't understand the thinking about taking one of their biggest characters and writers and moving them to digital ONLY - Waid's Daredevil.

The thinking is to push people to digital.

[Jace]

I agree with you guys that the article is crap and this is unlikely as yet. BUT Marvel do look to be pushing more and more towards digital as an actual alternative to print rather than 'as well as'. I still don't understand the thinking about taking one of their biggest characters and writers and moving them to digital ONLY - Waid's Daredevil.

Uhm .... what the heck are you talking about? The new Daredevil NOW! series by Waid and Samnee is not digital only. The restart of the series has Matt Murdock leaving Hell's Kitchen for San Francisco. There is a digital only series called Daredevil: Road Warrior that covers his trip across country by Waid and Peter Krause. Maybe that is what you are thinking of? Marvel is using one of its most popular series to show off it's digital comics and the ways they take advantage of the digital medium to change the readers experience, here is a link to an article about it.

http://comicsalliance.com/daredevil-roa ... e-digital/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

[lorddunlow]

I agree with you guys that the article is crap and this is unlikely as yet. BUT Marvel do look to be pushing more and more towards digital as an actual alternative to print rather than 'as well as'. I still don't understand the thinking about taking one of their biggest characters and writers and moving them to digital ONLY - Waid's Daredevil.

Uhm .... what the heck are you talking about? The new Daredevil NOW! series by Waid and Samnee is not digital only. The restart of the series has Matt Murdock leaving Hell's Kitchen for San Francisco. There is a digital only series called Daredevil: Road Warrior that covers his trip across country by Waid and Peter Krause. Maybe that is what you are thinking of? Marvel is using one of its most popular series to show off it's digital comics and the ways they take advantage of the digital medium to change the readers experience, here is a link to an article about it.

http://comicsalliance.com/daredevil-roa ... e-digital/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

I'm a big fan of all of the "Infinite Comics" that Marvel has put out. I agree, Jace, this is not trying to supplant print comics at all, but is actually a brand new medium for storytelling that, at its core, is most similar to comics, the way theatre is most similar to film.

They are digital only, not because Marvel is pushing for all digital, but because you can't make these stories any other way. They actually utilize the strengths of a dynamic canvas (a screen on a phone or tablet) to tell the story. I especially love when they have the equivalent of a two-page spread populate with characters and objects sequentially. It's hard to explain to anyone without just showing them one. It's really cool. It doesn't take the place of a print (or regular digital) comic book anymore than photography destroyed painting as an art form.

[ian_house]

I agree with you guys that the article is crap and this is unlikely as yet. BUT Marvel do look to be pushing more and more towards digital as an actual alternative to print rather than 'as well as'. I still don't understand the thinking about taking one of their biggest characters and writers and moving them to digital ONLY - Waid's Daredevil.

Uhm .... what the heck are you talking about? The new Daredevil NOW! series by Waid and Samnee is not digital only. The restart of the series has Matt Murdock leaving Hell's Kitchen for San Francisco. There is a digital only series called Daredevil: Road Warrior that covers his trip across country by Waid and Peter Krause. Maybe that is what you are thinking of? Marvel is using one of its most popular series to show off it's digital comics and the ways they take advantage of the digital medium to change the readers experience, here is a link to an article about it.

http://comicsalliance.com/daredevil-roa ... e-digital/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Awesome, didn't know that, I'd just read about the digital one, sorry dude. Glad to hear this though, I'd hate for it to be a digital only thing and then slowly disappear.