Do you do Digital Comics, do you?

[CConn]

...yeah.

I just wanted to get a poll going to actually see how many people here are moving into digital comics, and how many are still hardcopy only.

Please answer openly and honestly and here's hoping you don't get mocked by your peers.

 

[Primal Slayer]

Im a digital. Way easier for me to keep track of everything. Though every now and then I like me some physical copies.

 

[SuperFerret]

Physical only. I prefer to get something when I pay for it.

 

[CConn]

I've gone totally digital for a few reasons:

1. Much easier to organize and store. Instead of a dozen boxes, I just have one nifty-looking iPad. AND I can bring them anywhere with my iPhone.

2. With new DC Comics dropping to 2 bucks after a month, it'll prove to be much cheaper for me than print comics.

3. It's yet another reason to drop nearly all of Marvel's 3.99 price point comics.

4. It's a stupid reason...but it's kinda cool to get all of the variant covers. For free. Even second and third printing covers are automatically added once they're released.

 

[hippie_hunter]

I'm a very old fashioned guy. I just don't like digital copies of anything really.

 

[Hush]

I'll never go digital, never. I hate the idea of reading on a computer screen or a tablet. I like to hold books in my hand, same reason I don't just buy digital copies of movies or shows I like to hold the disc. I have Netflix but that is as far as I will go digitally streaming any type of media.

 

[CConn]

I'm kinda surprised that there's a couple of you who hate digital in general. I mean, the concept of buying an actual CD is like unheard of with my group of friends, family, enemies, etc.

 

[Hush]

I actually just bought the new Yellow Card CD and Glee Volume 1. Sometimes they put tracks on CD's you just can't get through iTunes.

 

[SuperFerret]

Music is different.

 

[BLACKVULCAN]

Never ever will i go digital!. they will have to pry a real comic book from my cold dead hands one day!
I love to feel up.. uh.. put my hands on stuff!I love the tactile feeling and forget all this cyber, digital virtual stuff! Like coke nothing beats the "Real thing" baby!"
..... and wouldn't nuclear powered lawn mowers melt down and cause us to turn into radioactive mutant Gardeners?? forget that!

 

[RyanJ]

I'm pure print for the time being. I have no specific aversion to all digital though. There are a few reasons I haven't changed over. One, I don't have a device I'd find comfortable reading them on. My iPhone is too small and reading them on the computer would just feel weird. If I ever get an iPad or similar tablet I might go digital. Two, I like to support the comic shop I go to. The owner has been good to me over the years and has earned my loyalty. I'd kind of feel like I was shafting him if I switched. Three, I like getting a physical copy of media when I pay for it. I'm not dead set on this though. I can't remember the last time I bought a music CD and streaming movies is nice. There are plenty that I buy that I want to have though. However, when I look in the back closet that my comics are piling up in sometimes I wish they were all gone and I had them all stored on an iPad. I have a few long boxes but there's a couple years worth just stacked up on the floor next to them (all bagged and boarded though).

When it comes down to it, it would be hard to switch over completely just because I've been collecting comics ever since I can remember. But as an adult now it would be nice to clear out the space that they're taking up and to be able to have them on the go.

 

[wiegeabo]

I plan on going digital, but I'm not sure which application to use.

 

[Superman 1265]

I'm never going digital.

 

[CConn]

Music is different.

Thanks for offering a detailed and intelligent reply to my post. I know understand your position entirely purely due to your insightful and thought provoking comments.

 

[Byrd Man]

I'm 100% digital. I wouldn't mind getting hard copies of the books, but the closest comic book shop is an 80 mile drive one way. It's just way more easier and convenient for me to do digital than it is to order subscriptions. I'm getting way more DC comics now than I ever have.

 

[SuperFerret]

Details involve too much typing at once, and I'm against walls of text.

Music (and movies and tv shows) are basically intangible and the physical disc and/or video are inconsequential to the experience. Putting the words and images of a book onto something as different from a page as a screen is a very severe change and one that I find to be a negative change.

 

[ThDWgeek]

I've not gone digital for a few reasons. One is that it wouldn't really be that much more convenient for me, as I haven't got an iPad or anything to put them on, so it wouldn't really make sense for me to have digital copies on the PC in my room where I've got enough space for physical copies anyway. The second reason is that I prefer to get a physical copy, especially seeing how holding an actual comic book is a rarity for me, so it's a bit special for me if I get an actual issue.

 

[PWN3R]

I know the poll mentions the word "buy" but for all of the digital comic book supporters here, how many of you are actually paying for them versus torrenting them?

 

[Anubis]

I've gotten used to reading Digital....it's actually kinda cool.


If I ever get my money right, I'm gonna go full digital.

 

[CConn]

Details involve too much typing at once, and I'm against walls of text.

Music (and movies and tv shows) are basically intangible and the physical disc and/or video are inconsequential to the experience. Putting the words and images of a book onto something as different from a page as a screen is a very severe change and one that I find to be a negative change.

Oooh. So you think music and movies are different from books, comics, etc.

That I get. Honestly, while I don't really read prose anymore, I don't quite get how people have so readily given up books for the kindle. I mean, that feel of the page against your fingers, that smell as you turn the pages...that can't be replicated.

I get where you're coming from with that.

That aside, for me, paper comics are and have always been as much a pain in the ass as they are enjoyable. Bags and boards and alphabetizied organization...they're all awful. So the disadvantages outweighed the advantages.

 

[hippie_hunter]

I'm kinda surprised that there's a couple of you who hate digital in general. I mean, the concept of buying an actual CD is like unheard of with my group of friends, family, enemies, etc.

I don't hate digital. As a matter in fact, whenever I buy a blu-ray I make sure that it comes with a digital copy so that I can give it to my sister. I buy the digital versions of games on my PS3 and Wii. I buy a few songs on iTunes despite my preference for CDs.

I just have a preference for physical. But I don't shun digital.

 

[C. Lee]

I've never even checked into the digital comics. I don't have an Ipad or Iphone or Ianything....I'm not saying that I will never have anything do do with them (the way things are going, at some time in the near future it may be the only way to read comics anyway)....but at this time I like hard copy in my hand.

 

[CConn]

I actually just bought the new Yellow Card CD and Glee Volume 1. Sometimes they put tracks on CD's you just can't get through iTunes.

I read my wife your post, and she said something I can't repeat.

 

[twylight]

Did she say his man-card should be revoked for the Glee CD?

*hides her new Yellowcard CD behind her back*

 

[Hush]

I read my wife your post, and she said something I can't repeat.

PM Me I'm genuinely curious.

Did she say his man-card should be revoked for the Glee CD?

*hides her new Yellowcard CD behind her back*

I was a Jock in high school who read comics and was on show choir, I relate with the show. Plus its great for me and my GF to watch together. My Man card is plenty safe i'll have you know.