As writer Rick Remender’s Marvel event story crosses the halfway mark, issue 5 yields a surprisingly uneven reading experience. Opening and closing on a couple of high-impact beats, it also mechanically carves a wheel-spinning valley right down the middle. [Read more…] about “AVENGERS & X-MEN: AXIS #5: This Side Up”
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Marvel Unlimited with Multiple Devices & Users
Once you’ve started enjoying the gift of Marvel Unlimited, one of your first instincts will be to share the finding with your friends and family. Well… your first instinct will be to lock yourself in a dimly lit room with your comics for the next three months. But after that, assuming we haven’t been hit by a zombie apocalypse or the curse of Yorrick, you’ll want to share. Can multiple people use the same Marvel Unlimited account across multiple devices? [Read more…] about Marvel Unlimited with Multiple Devices & Users
Which Marvel Digital Bundles Are Worth Your Time & Money?
Marvel announced a new digital comics feature today: Digital bundles! You can now buy complete comic arcs of some of Marvel’s best series, or sampler packages of some newer issues, for a reduced digital rate.
To those keeping up with the digital comics revolution, this is actually a repeat of the Comixology news last week, and yes, Marvel’s digital comic store bundles are the same offerings as those on Comixology. Nonetheless, it’s as good a time as any to take a closer look at these bundles, and determine the quality of the series and how much of a value these digital issues really are. [Read more…] about Which Marvel Digital Bundles Are Worth Your Time & Money?
Marvel’s Fantastic Freemium: Why Giving it Away Sets the Comic Publisher Apart
Marvel Comics has been giving away a LOT of free stuff lately. And not just your standard “here’s an old issue of a second-tier story” digital giveaway.
Recent Marvel freebies have included every #1 issue in their publishing history, as well as the starting issues of their digital Infinite Comics line.
As a fan, this is clearly great. But is this a sustainable business model for Marvel, and is it good for the comic book industry as a whole? [Read more…] about Marvel’s Fantastic Freemium: Why Giving it Away Sets the Comic Publisher Apart
Linking 101 – Marvel’s Ultron Chronology
This one’s a quickie: I was all set to praise for Marvel for their well-crafted and genuinely useful Ultron timeline in anticipation of this year’s Age of Ultron… and then I realized where all their links went. [Read more…] about Linking 101 – Marvel’s Ultron Chronology