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Archie goes digital with 'New Crusaders'
johndesmarais:
--- Quote from: narfstar on October 11, 2011, 10:29:24 AM ---Epads are much more practical IMHO than a Kindle. You get the ereader function plus computer functions
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Depends on what you need and what you're willing to spend. I love my iPad (particularly for reading comics, but for a lot of non-reading stuff as well) but if my ONLY need was for a reader I would would have looked hard at other devices (like the Nook Color and the new color Kindle).
jfglade:
--- Quote from: paw broon on October 11, 2011, 05:35:55 AM ---Although I'm off to buy a Kindle this afternoon, it's not much use for a colour comic and I'm not that keen on reading comics on the computer and I haven't tried a comic download. A 6 page comic for $2.99? Sounds like a great bargain.
As a fan of the 60's Mighty Crusaders, my initial reaction was, great. But on reflection, I dread what the new, young heroes will look like. The back catalogue would intrigue me if it involved the Archie titles. And as you point out, the MLJ material is pd and I have all the 60's titles.
As an aside, Kindle appears to support PDF and there are lot of old British storypapers available in the format.
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I don't wish to get embroiled in the kindle/Ipad/whatever discussion, but I have to agree with Paw about the original topic of discussion. I absolutely cannot see the six pages for $2.99 price, and the MLJ material is in PD so I wouldn't see much of an advantage to the back catalogue (unless it could bring up issues of the Little Archie series which seems unlikely. I don't need access to Fly series, and the rest of the Archie Adventure series/Radio Comics from the sixties just don't appeal to me now, although I did follow the Jaguar and even the Mighty Comics stuff back in the day. There simply wasn't enough of the Red Circle material before it imploded, and I never cared for the Impact adaptions (with the exception of the too short Black Hood series). The premise of the new material absolutely turns me off, as I've had a bellyful of watered down "legacy" heroes already and don't want to see more of the same ilk.
I'm sort of glad to know that the Crusaders are back because they have many fans, and there is nothing inherently flawed with that group of characters, but I'm underwhelmed by the premise of this incarnation.
John C:
Yeah, I feel like I came down too hard on them and I do hope they can be encouraged into going beyond just six pages per month. The industry can definitely do with a line whose eye isn't exclusively on movie adaptations and isn't yet more of the same old grim and gritty stuff.
And come to think about it, if they were to tell a complete story in those six pages, wouldn't that be the most amazing thing on the market in decades...?
Yoc:
--- Quote from: John C on October 12, 2011, 03:46:50 PM ---And come to think about it, if they were to tell a complete story in those six pages, wouldn't that be the most amazing thing on the market in decades...?
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Almost revolutionary! ;)
Roygbiv666:
There seems to be some confusion - maybe read the article again.
The $2.99 is for the subscription service, not the Crusaders comic:
"Archie Comics has yet to set the price for the subscription. “Value, value, value. That’s what we want to give at Archie Comics,” said Goldwater, who shared that he hoped the subscription fees to be no more than a regular comic book sold by DC Comics or Marvel Comics, which regularly go for US$2.99 (SGD$3.90) to US$3.99. “We’re very conscious of what’s going on in the economy right now. We want to be recession busters. We don’t want to gouge our fans.”
Technically, that's a bit vague - is the subscription for the one title or an overall service?
So, I went over to the Archie Comics website:
http://www.archiecomics.com/
and clicked on the "Digital" link at the top - that took me to iTunes. Which had an Archie APP, but I don't see comics per se.
Archie has a digital page here:
http://archiedigital.com/
So, I'm not entirely sure, but it sounds like subscription provides access to many titles, not just the Mighty Crusaders. Although, if that's all you want, then yeah it's steep.
Why don't publishers just release digital to an iTunes like platform, and let them absorb the server costs? Then it's comics for 99 cents! Yay!
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