Marvel launches digital comic books on iTunes
Announced at NYC Comic Con, Marvel Comics will be bringing it’s first “motion comic” to Apple’s iTunes store, thus expanding on the portable comic reading abilities of the iPhone and iPod Touch.
Marvel’s Joe Quesada set the stage by recounting a conversation several years ago with Marvel Publisher Dan Buckley about the potential of digital comics. A video played showing that Joss Whedon and John Cassaday’s “Astonishing X-Men” #1-10 will be adapted into Motion Comics. (See trailer below)
“It’s not quite comics, it’s not quite animation,” Quesada said of the hybrid nature of the project. Cassaday will be “directing” the adaptation. Buckley also added that this “wasn’t handing things off to a production studio and letting them run away with it everyone’s very involved.”
Thought?
February 10th, 2009 at 7:40 pm
Not bad!
February 10th, 2009 at 9:55 pm
I don’t like the idea of a motion comics, I have to say. I have seen the watchmen motion comics – and it was just meh.
I mean, it’s not particularly great animation (just the pages of a comic book), but it’s not really a comic book (you don’t have that feeling when you are turning the pages, occasionaly list few pages back, occasionaly staring on a page with OH MY GOD, THIS IS SO WELL DONE – that happened to me a lot of times wish astonishing x-men)
I don’t know the reason for actually paying for this … make a good animated movie instead, like doomsday or the new frontier, these were awesome.
February 11th, 2009 at 3:30 am
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February 11th, 2009 at 1:50 pm
Looks great!!
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February 12th, 2009 at 6:06 am
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February 13th, 2009 at 7:33 am
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February 14th, 2009 at 11:20 pm
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