Subscribers will instantly gain access to books like Bitch Planet, Descender, The Wicked + The Divine (all of which made our best comics of 2015 list), Saga, Sex Criminals, Scott Pilgrim, Hellboy, The Complete Peanuts, Lumberjanes and Adventure Time.īut on a closer look, what's actually available from the majority of these series is merely the first story arc or at most the first few volumes. (If anything, Comixology Unlimited just makes the fact that DC Comics does not offer a digital comics subscription service all the more glaring.)Īnd on the surface, the comics included in Comixology Unlimited seem like a brilliant swathe of titles for new readers, as advertised. Marvel already has its own "Unlimited" service, for one thing, and the Big Two of American comics are also conspicuously absent from other Comixology initiatives like DRM free offline backups. Namely, it's limited library.Ĭomixology Unlimited's biggest omissions, Marvel and DC Comics, are also its most expected ones. It will even front the user with recommendations in various ways, "including search filters, home page curation, introductions to various publishers, and even editorial guides." But if Comixology Unlimited is like Netflix, it's also borrowed some of the streaming service's most obvious flaws.
EW likens Comixology Unlimited to "Netflix for comic books" - not the first time this phrase has been used for a subscription-based comics service. As the biggest digital comics outlet on the web, Comixology's library is dauntingly huge. It’s a lot easier if people have a very low risk opportunity to discover comics for themselves and just really take their time with the catalog." "That’s really hard to do by just throwing them into the middle of 100,000 comic books. "It sounds silly but our mission is to make everyone on the planet a comics fan," Comixology CEO David Steinberger told Entertainment Weekly. The service also offers a 30-day free trial. For that price, subscribers can download and read any comic with the Comixology Unlimited label instead of paying for them piecemeal. Comixology, the internet's foremost outlet for digital comics, announced its first subscription-based unlimited comics service today.įor a $5.99 monthly fee, Comixology Unlimited allows subscribers access to a library of comics from several of America's largest indie publishers - Image Comics, Dark Horse Comics, IDW Publishing, BOOM! Studios, Oni Press, Archie Comics, Valiant Entertainment, Fantagraphics Books, Dynamite Entertainment, Zenoscope, Action Lab and Aspen Comics.
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