This morning Marvel announced that it will not be releasing any comics digitally. Well, there goes my pre-order I put in last night at Marvel's digital store for one comic to test it out. I got my confirmation that the order was placed but nothing else.
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03-31-2020, 09:50 AM #1Latverian ambassador
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Marvel Announces plans for April 1st Comics
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03-31-2020, 09:56 AM #2Lazy Struggler
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Same. Rip..
Yikes, my grammar has gone to ****. Rip
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03-31-2020, 10:01 AM #3Latverian ambassador
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Funny thing is they have no news about this at Marvel.com but then I always thought their home page could be improved in that regard.
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03-31-2020, 10:19 AM #4Ultimate Member
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hopefully freelancers will still get paid for the work they have done and are doing currently.
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03-31-2020, 10:42 AM #5Latverian ambassador
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As far as I can tell, they are still doing the work. I know the author of the Doctor Doom series Christopher Cantwell tweeted that he turned in the script for issue #10. I do worry about the companies themselves. Their revenue stream is being diminished and they have staff to pay. At least Marvel has Disney to hopefully keep them afloat and they just raised some cash by selling off some debt securities.
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03-31-2020, 12:04 PM #6insulin4all
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I'm willing to cut Marvel (and DC, as well as all other publishers) a lot of slack on this. These are unprecedented circumstances and the length of time before it's cleared up is unknown. Certainly our thoughts are for the best for creators and staff members, but in a world where even the big companies are unsure what's going on, it's going to be tough to find the best course of action. For example, while it may be possible to produce digital versions of comics during the COVD-19 break, eventually digital and print will need to synchronize again. Questions may exist as to Diamond's capacity and how many weeks' worth of books can be handled at a time. My layman's guess is that April 1st books (seriously, could there be a better release date for this ****?) will be released on a future Wednesday when businesses and public behavior is back to normal. Diamond's capacity and readiness to get back is a big factor. Different states' rules about "non-essential businesses" like LCS reopening may very well vary.
Back issues and trades are pretty much my options here. And fan-fic. By the way, there are solicitations for CBR forums in the sticky section of the Marvel and DC forums which may be fun to look at. And actually buy in a digital sense.
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