Life-long comics fan Patton Oswalt took to Twitter to register his complaints. But as we’ve seen in the past, when a legitimate business makes it harder to give you their money, piracy tends to increase. The volume sold of comics these days is so small that our personal business and purchases matter greatly.

I 100% do not advocate the piracy of comic books. The best place to buy new comics, which made it easy to buy new comics every week has gone the way of the Kindle store. I no longer buy physical copies for a lot of reasons (limited physical space being the main one) and digital is my preferred avenue for consumption. Owned by Amazon, you can sign up for a free account or pay a small monthly subscription fee of 5.99 to get access to an even bigger library and special pricing deals via ComiXology Unlimited. Overall, I think this is bad for the comics industry.

My underpowered Lenovo Duet Chromebook handled loading, sorting, and grouping my 3800 issue library in under 5 minutes, thumbnails downloaded and read/unread status included. I sometimes questioned if I had a good enough tablet because of just how poorly the ComiXology app performed. The app is miles ahead of where it was before.

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