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Choosing Good IPad Comics

As A Matter Of Fact, rather than shying outside from the much expected device, Marvel and Apple seem to be quite in sync with their designs for iPad comics. For one, unlike their issues on the iPhone and similar mobile devices, Marvel has chose to make their iPad comics ready through one branded app designed in coincidence with the mobile comics platform comiXology. And for Apple's function, the tech giant has been promoting the new Marvel app as a major part of the device's in store launch with Marvel featured on the company's web site and in their iTunes-driven app store as well as in advanced inspections before the iPad that went on sale on Saturday.

The fantastic issue out there is that the iPad comics market is broken. If you purchase a comic in one app, you can't remove it to a different app, or to your background. Some comics are available exclusively in one app - for example, all of Robert Kirkman's comics are only to Comixology. There's no universally accepted format for legitimate comic files. (There are, however, large comics formats: they're the CBR and CBZ files used on the BitTorrent sites.)

I've heard from a bunch of old comics fans who are emotional about reconnecting to comics via the iPad, but they're turned off by the confusion about which app they had better exercise to purchase comics. I'll give Marvel credit here: If you're a Marvel fan, you are able to just beat with the Marvel app and be quite happy. (But you'll miss out on a cluster of other modern comics.)

In the meantime, iVerse and Comixology are the big movers when it comes to iPad comics. Not only do both companies offer their own reader apps-iVerse and Comics, respectively-but their technology powers several publisher- or brand-specific comic apps. iVerse's reader is also the power behind the Star Trek, Transformers, and IDW apps; the much-hyped Marvel Comics app is a custom version of Comixology's app.
But even if the iPad is a wonderful comic-reading twist, and the iPad comics apps are all utterly good, the whole thing falls down if there are no comics to read. There's both good news and bad news on this front.

Return to CBR in the days and weeks in front for more on the players in the burgeoning iPad comics market and the future of digital comics as a whole.

Learn more about iPad comics. Stop by Jeny Adam's site where you can find out all about iPad comics and what it can do for you.