Reading Comics Online

Apparently this is a growing trend, I don’t get it myself, after all what would people do with all the white boxes and plastic sleeve manufactures? I’ve spent a lot of time reading the Marvel Comics Wikia, I also fixed a lot of grammatical errors for the good of the English speaking population. I also downloaded an app for my iPhone which allows me to read Marvel Comics on the go. Apparently the website is something like $60 dollars a month for all the comics you can read, well the incompatible iPhone app is about $2 per issue.

There are free comics on the iPhone app, I read a 1968 Iron Man issue where Tony Stark looked like an Italian porn star and Warmachine had a flat top. It is funny Iron Man has become so popular, I never was in to him, it works better as a movie maybe. It helps that real actors are willing to play super heroes, or at least more talented actors.

I remember when Marvel went bankrupt in the 90s I couldn’t believe it. I’d have bought the company, the intellectual property has more than proven its worth, I wonder who the idiot financiers were who valued it so low? I’m not sold on the collect-ability of comics in digital form, I’m still a reader and buyer of books, even magazines despite all the time I spend online. Eyes fatigue more reading on a screen and the iPhone screen is only so big, the app works pretty well though, no complaints there. We’ll have to see how much free content I can access. Marvel has a huge back catalog of stories, more of which will reach a film screen but some will remain obscure childhood memories.

Did you know Cyclops’s father and mother threw him and his brother out of a plane attached to the single parachute when they were attacked and abducted by aliens? Neither did I, only in comics, especially Golden and Silver Age comics would that be a plausible back story. Cryogenetically frozen, memory wipes, re-incarnations, clones, reading the Wikia stretches plausibility, not to mention Marvel’s alternate timelines. I think DC reset their world’s in the 80’s with Crisis or shortly there after. Crisis was the last graphic novel I bought, after seeing a new Crisis cross over on the news stands not too long ago.

Other tidbits I learned, was Wolverine has a son, someone named James Jaspers is one of the most powerful mutants, just behind Reed Richard’s son. Marvel also has a list of the ten smartest people in their universe, though I never turned the complete list up, there is a surprising amount of discussion on this online… Even on the Wikipedia it is listed who has been revealed to be among the smartest in the Marvel Universe.

I’m more of a Marvel guy than a DC guy, though I know the big two of DC pretty well, used to love reading thing’s like Who’s Who. They aren’t valuable err collectible, but I read almost everyone, likely several times.

The Marvel Cinematic Universe has only become bigger and bigger with Avengers Endgame coming out this month, April 2019. I have not seen every Marvel movie but I’ve seen most. I never seem to have anyone to see movies with anymore. I’ve been living in China where I did go to a Comic book convention and I also saw the first Marvel Superheroes Land at Shanghai Disneyland. It is indeed easy to read comics online but you can spend a lot of money on it if you’re not careful. They only take fifteen or so minutes to read which is probably why I had to stop.

I sacrificed all my hobbies and interests to study for the CFA® exams now I am once again unemployed and I spend too much time on my aging laptop looking for work and updating old blog posts to try and better leverage them. If you have any thoughts on comics or movies based on comics you can leave them below.

This entry was originaly posted on May 19th, 2010, it was last edited on April 3rd, 2019 and is filed under: The Arts and tagged: Comics, DC, iPhone, Marvel.