Doesnt have the same feel. I mean, years later are you going to leave behind some physical collectables as keepsakes? or a usb stick full of digital data?. .....

I think it's more about the experience. With physical it's about hunting copies more than the content; I'm pretty sure collectors care about story, even with that in mind.

With digital it's more about the inside of the comic than anything else. And there's lots in between.

I could be wrong. I usually am when trying to understand people.

Kinda became a necessity to me since hardback copies of the series I follow (Über and several rare ones) don't come to Spain so buying them on www.thetopwebcomics and tossing them on my tablet is the only solution I got...

When digital cost about the same compare to physical, I don't see the point.

Waiting to see if able to buy hundreds of digital in one bundle at much reduced price.

I am slightly split, but also know where my passion lies, which is with Jim Holdaway originals.

I totally love Steve Bell and Dave Brown for their cutting political cartoons - but the pricing seems to be for the eventual insulted politicans' buy-out for the toilet wall.

I would not say 275 sterling is cheap for Jim Holdaway original panel - a daily strip - but fair: his art is so supreme that pleasure of seeing the depth and sophistication of his pen and ink is so great that one knows it is worth it.

Ever since I started earning wages, because I am a Modesty Blaise fan from age elven or so - I have had the latent dream of owning an original Holdaway.

I have to admit though it was a München retrospective of Karl Friedrich Schinkel - whom is a master of graphical design - the original of die Zauberflöte opera stage set design, and Eisernes Kreuz are his.

I saw the iconic starry dome encircling the Queen of the Night, @original - and I knew no-one could no longer buy such work, at normal means. But there was Holdaway...


Should this seem a bit long-winded, it means: please do not be financially abused. You do not have quite that passion - yet, of maybe not ever.

But in case you find such admiration - true love of visual style - be It 275 sterling or +1000 USD, or even five bucks or unfordable - you'd welcome the prospect of seeing a given work every day.

I have such true love, and all power to Jim Holdaway.

Personally i still prefer reading a physical comic/manga over reading a digital copy on a screen anythime, the feel is just different. However, if 1 is looking @ long-term storage digital is the preferred choice. That being said, with proper care a physical copy shd still be able last a few decades easily. Of cos, that's not mentioning only physical copies can appreciate in value for those looking to sell them yrs later as well so i guess physical copy is still the way to go for me.

I understand that, but the game itself would still be the same. Sure, games as a whole changed somewhat once disk space got big enough. It's certainly a lot more comfortable to have everything you want installed without having to put a disc in when you want to play, or change diskettes or CD's during gameplay.

I'm guessing you're talking about physical extras, not the games themselves, and I agree that was a nice bonus in games that had them, but it's not really the game itself that's different, and certainly just buying a game on DVD won't give you much these days.

The games itself may have not changed much, but so are the comics. The difference is that one's installed within hand reach and not within a server's reach, the other can be viewed on a screen or though printed material.

And yes, those extras as well added more value to the game. There is a big difference between buying a game extra-less and buying a game and being invested into the game even if you were not playing it itself. Of course these days must have been long gone eh? With corporations not even bothering to put the entire content on discs and not asking you to download the rest, or giving you a disc that's basically still telling you to download the whole game, what will bring them to create material to get you invested long before the game itself is actually opened? All of these days are lost.

I think they're crap

I don't think very highly of digital comics. Not because they aren't physical, but because they are generally either DRM'd to a reader device or in an irritating format like PDF.

Offer me a set of high quality pages-as-separate-images and then I can get behind digital comics.

There's a much bigger difference with comics. They look different, feel different, smell different when they're digital.

Games, they're exactly the same. Whether they originate on a disc or a server, that's just how you get them into your PC. You don't play the disc or the server, you play a copy on your hard drive, and the way that copy look and plays depends on your hardware, not on how you got the game. (There are also games streamed from the cloud, which are indeed somewhat different, but that's rather rare and I assume we're not talking about this.)

I really like them, mostly because they've made comics far easier for me. When I was kid in the 90's we had relatively good selection of different kinds of comics published in Finland, but most of the magazine always were niche and didn't survive that long.

The longest running comic here is Donald Duck, which doesn't only have a weekly magazine, it has these "pocket books" with about 250 pages, that are always in publication and I think at the moment go somewhere in issue 400 I think.

Now, while I do like Donald Duck, the other kinds of comics are pretty hard to find around here, and if you do find them they're pirced pretty steeply thanks to import costs, so these days I read pretty much all else digitally. It's more convenient and the selection just simply is far better than it ever was even on the peak of Finnish comic book publishing.

Digital comics... The only way i could read the back catalog of some comics was through digital a while back. Managed to read most of Spawn's comics, at least until it stopped making sense around comic... #200?

That said, $2 per comic for a digital copy seems a little high in my opinion.

Also something to consider. For $20 or $40 at some gaming stores they will have archived comics in black and white in a big book. I think 20 years worth of spiderman comicbooks were easily available 15 years ago. Seemed like good value to me :P

Today I just found out there is this Spawn comic series that sell for 1 dollar per issue, if you go digital and it is older then 3 months

https://imagecomics.com/comics/release-archive/series/spawn

I am tempted, but putting $250 upfront for the whole series is heavy for me, and feel missing something if I just get in part

Agreed, $250 is too much. I'd say $50 at most personally. Although I ended up getting ahold of the comics long before they officially went digital releases (to my knowledge). It's not good legal advice, but if you want you can pay them what you think they deserve, and then just download the rest.