No, I know you could get comics digitally for years now… but (arguably) you had no effective device (a desktop or laptop being your best bet IMO, smartphones being a tiny annoying option (as far as I’m concerned and I know I’m not alone,) and, like reading e-books, neither being a preferred way) and few applications that had access to all the books, especially in a timely minor.
Over the last few months, all of that has changed.
1 – DC Comics and Marvel Comics (as well as others) now offer digital distribution on the same day the physical copies are for sale. After resisting nearly as hard to enter the digital domain as the music industry did.
2 – Cheap, well designed devices useful for reading comics have finally arrived. Yes, the iPad could work, or an iPhone (if you don’t mind TINY screens, but that’s beside the point), if you want to drop $500 on a device for comics. Or you already have one. But for the rest of us who don’t need nor want tablet computers, and don’t want (or don’t want to use as anything other than a phone) smartphones, there’s now two very viable options. The Kindle Fire and the Nook Tablet. Reviews for both are stellar. Yes, reviews for both as stellar.
3 – While iTunes has had access to digital comics for awhile, there ARE people out there who DON’T want to feed the Apple beast. Or, you know, like variety and options. Enter DC’s deal with Amazon, Marvel’s deal with Barnes & Noble, and (perhaps the biggest win news) the Comixology app!
An awful lot has happened in a rather short time in regards to digital comics. But it’s an exciting time for the transition. Whether you already have your iPad and your iTunes account, or you’re eying up that Nook Tablet cause all you care about is Marvel… there’s plenty of ways to get your comics online and on your portable color screens!
Jim Yoho is the owner of In Genre, Wausau Comics, and JAY Entertainment and he maintains the site as well as adding the occasional article or review of his own. He often goes by Merin online, from way back in the BBS days of dial-up modems even.
Having enjoyed writing reviews and postings for other sites he decided to start his own where he combined his creative urges to write and create web comics (such as Episode Fun and Alistair & Arthur) with his long-held desire to bring together and organize talented people for joint projects. The end result is that you get the Wausau Comics site - articles and reviews of genre entertainment at In Genre plus some web comics and links to the works of other Contributors, too! 
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