Marvel Comics Partners With Panelfly To Distribute Comics on iPhone
Worst Blog Rant Ever!
Love comic books, but hate all of that tedious labor it requires to turn the pages? And don’t you wish that comic books’ pesky, easy to read print was a lot smaller and digitized? Well, Panelfly is here to help by partnering with Marvel Comics to help slowly and methodically eliminate the existence of printed copies of comics by offering an application available for download on the iPhone.
The application to download is free, but each issue will cost you $0.99 to download into the Panelfly reader. The current Marvel issues set up on Panelfly are the original Spider-Man series, X-Men, X23, Age Apocalypse and Iron Man. And if the Marvel issues aren’t enough to float your boat or find your lost remote, then Panelfly offers lots of different comic publishers like Blurred Books, Dare Comics and NBM Publishing, along with others.
I know that this should be seen as good news, because it opens the door to more comic book readers, but with practically everything that’s tangible in our world being summed up into an iPhone app, I am slowly becoming jaded on what can actually be seen as a legitimate advancement of technology when it could possibly just be a cheap ploy to merge anything and everything into the Apple universe (I say this semi-hypocritically as I type this on an Apple computer).
So call me a print purist, party pooper, prissy pussy, lame asshole, or whatever you wish. I will always enjoy a printed copy of a work. And with all of the new advances in technology merging the printed word into expensive, electronic luxury devices such as Kindle, it surprises me how many people wish to spend hundreds of extra dollars to read the same words on a digital screen that you would be able to in an inexpensive printed book. I suppose it’s just become a part of our culture to be driven to buy expensive, technological goodies in order define ourselves and give us some semblance of status in society.
So exalt me, o’ blog of mine! Take my opinion and deliver it to the masses!
Jerkburger Blog: But, no one reads me.
Me: Oh. Well…At least I have the smug, self-satisfaction of expressing my ideas!
Jerkburger Blog: But crazy, homeless men on street corners can express ideas.
Me: Yes, but I can put my ideas on the Internet!
Jerkburger Blog: What makes the concept different other than the medium of expression?
Me: Well…the Internet let’s ANYONE share their…yeah, you’re right.
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