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[nomoment]

http://newsarama.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=19670

TOPICS Entertainment announces the release on November 1 of the newest in its very successful line of classic Marvel Comics published in CD-ROM format. The new title, 40 Years of the Amazing Spider-Man, will collect more than 40 years’ worth of Spider-Man comic books, from his debut in Amazing Fantasy #15 (March 1963), as well as every monthly issue of Amazing Spider-Man - issues #1 through 500 (December 2003.) All 501 complete full-color issues of Marvel Comics’ flagship character – more than 16,000 pages of comic books – will be available on 11 CD-ROMs, digitally-scanned from the original paper comic books, for a suggested retail price of only $49.99.

 

[Manick Joe]

SOLD!

 

[bjork]

Nice.

 

[Matlock]

My pants just exploded.

 

[Bigfoot]

Cool... but 11 CDs? Why not do it on 1 DVD, and give you the option to read them on your TV?

 

[Jim Bowie]

Cool... but 11 CDs? Why not do it on 1 DVD, and give you the option to read them on your TV?

Because they still want some people to buy it. If they had that feature, we'd all have heart attacks and die.

For a minute, I thought they were making a huge fucking book.

 

[Dan]

Even I might grab that. Question though, aren't there going to be story arcs not completed in that set since they were carried by different Spider-Man lines? You know, like a four issue series where #1 was in Amazing and #2 was in Spectacular, etc. Right?

 

[Willco]

This is quite possibly the smartest thing Marvel has ever done. Imagine, having an entire archive of Amazing Spider-Man at the click of a button.

Putting it on a DVD might save us the cost of buying 11 discs, but nobody is going to read comics on their television.

 

[G4life98]

I have been waiting for all comic companies to start doing this, I wonder if they are going to release their whole catalog on disc...now they need to setup an online delivery system to sell newer issues.

 

[Jim Bowie]

They should call the series "Instant Comic Authority."

 

[nomoment]

Even I might grab that. Question though, aren't there going to be story arcs not completed in that set since they were carried by different Spider-Man lines? You know, like a four issue series where #1 was in Amazing and #2 was in Spectacular, etc. Right?

This really only affects Spider-Man books from the 90s, which I don't know why anybody would want to read in the first place!

 

[Willco]

This really only affects Spider-Man books from the 90s, which I don't know why anybody would want to read in the first place!

MAYBE FANS? DON'T HATE, YOU COMIC NAZI.

 

[Error Macro]

Digitally scanned, huh? Wow, I'm glad they didn't use analog scanners to scan the pages.

 

[Rorschach]

Fuck digital.

 

[miyuru]

Putting it on a DVD might save us the cost of buying 11 discs, but nobody is going to read comics on their television.

I doubt there'd be a price difference (if at least for the cheaper) either way, unless you're referring to cost as hassle related to 11 CDs.

 

[robochimp]

This would seem to be extremely prone to piracy.

 

[Naked Snake]

This would seem to be extremely prone to piracy.

Yes it will be on bittorrent faster than you can say TAKE A PICTURE

 

[nomoment]

MAYBE FANS? DON'T HATE, YOU COMIC NAZI.

Being a comic nazi is a lifestyle I can dig.