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Paranormal Activity, the smash hit from Paramount Pictures, has frightened millions of people worldwide, and now the terror continues at the iTunes App Store with Paranormal Activity: The Search For Katie, A Case Study by Dr. Johann Averys DMN. iPhone and iPod touch users have exclusive access to this digital comic, which begins AFTER the film’s shocking cliff-hanger ending. IDW Publishing’s first digital-exclusive comic follows a brilliant demonologist named Dr. Johann Averys, as he tries to find Katie, the tragic main character of Paranormal Activity.
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Just in time for the holidays comes the greatest way to spread love and cheer for the seasons. Customizable with your own personal message, the Archie Pre-Paid Christmas Card from Archie Comics will give your loved one full access to ArchieDigital.com for a whole year, where they can read hundreds of issues already available and new comics uploaded every Monday – Friday. Any orders made before December 10, 2009 will be eligible to have a printed card sent out from ArchieDigital.com to any destination in the US. The Archie Pre-Paid Christmas Card will be available as a printable eCard with all the same great greeting graphics, personalized message, and full subscription information. Available now on ArchieDigital.com, the Archie Pre-Paid Christmas Card is only $49.95, equal to only $4.16 a month, the same price as the subscription alone. This holiday season, whether old or young, new fan or devoted follower, the Archie Pre-Paid Christmas Card is one gift everyone will love! Visit www.ArchieDigital.com for more details.
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Titan Publishing’s Wallace & Gromit digital comic is taking the iPhone app charts by storm and is currently ranked number one in the UK free books app store, a first for a British comic! The comic has also risen to the number three spot overall in the free apps chart, a cracking feat and no mistake! All four paid for Wallace & Gromit comic apps are currently within the top 20 paid apps in the UK book chart.
With over 170,000 downloads of the Wallace & Gromit free app around the world, it’s not only us Brits who can’t get enough of Aardman’s iconic duo – it’s currently the number one free book download in Australia, New Zealand and Finland!
You can download the first Wallace & Gromit Comic, ‘The W Files’ for free at www.wallaceandgromitcomics.com, and there are four other fantastic Wallace & Gromit comics available at the app store, for just 59p each!
Wallace & Gromit digital comics editor Ned Hartley said: “We’ve been amazed at how well our first app has done – Wallace & Gromit is such a great brand, and iPhone users obviously love them as much as we do!”
Archie is proud to introduce the all-new holiday special Betty & Veronica Christmas Spectacular as its first exclusively digital comic book.
This new special holiday issue is Archie’s next step into the future of comic books. Archie Comics is embracing the digital medium in 2009, partnering with iVerse Media to open its online comic store archiedigital.com and also to release previously printed comics in digital versions for iTunes. The first of these releases, Archie Freshman Year #1, established Archie Comics as a grassroots digital comics leader when it quickly became the most downloaded comic book on iTunes.
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IDW Publishing today announced the launch of its new digital storefronts, available exclusively through the Apple App Store. This free application hosts every IDW comic currently available on the iPhone and iPod Touch, all in one convenient app. IDW Comics offers viewers a great way to enjoy their comics, with new full page and panel-by-panel options, plus familiar display and download functions. The IDW Comics app features ten free comics, currently boasts over 200 comics, and will be updated regularly with new releases.
Titan Publishing is proud to present inventors extraordinaire and Oscar® winners, Wallace & Gromit, as you’ve never seen them before – in comics on your iPhone!
The first batch of comics includes strips written by Dan Abnett (Legion, Nova, The Authority) and Simon Furman (Transformers, Terminator 2 comic), with more to be released in the following weeks!
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The critically-acclaimed Avalon Studios comic series, Aria finally arrives to the iPhone and iPod Touch.
Aria was created by comic book pioneer and founder of Avalon Studios, Brian Haberlin (Witchblade, Spawn, Blackest Night and many others) and celebrated writer, Brian Holguin (Spawn, Kiss: Psycho Circus).
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Marvel Comics (www.marvel.com) is proud to announce the launch of the Marvel Digital Comics Reader 3.0 at www.marvel.com/digitalcomics. The new reader builds on Marvel’s groundbreaking digital comics experience! Featuring the acclaimed Marvel Digital Comics Unlimited library of over 7,000 comic issues, as well as exclusive new series, the Marvel Digital Comics Reader 3.0 cannot be missed by any Marvel fan! The ultimate digital comic Internet destination allows unparalleled access to thousands of titles from Marvel’s historic comic book archives – from the first issues of Amazing Spider-Man, The X-Men, Incredible Hulk, Fantastic Four and other favorites, to unforgettable recent stories! There are hundreds of new heroes, villains and stories right at your fingertips and you’ve never read comics like this before!
Dark Horse Comics has announced Hellboy: Seed of Destruction and Umbrella Academy: Apocalypse Suite are now available for digital download via the iTunes store for viewing on the iPhone and iPod Touch.
The first impressive issues of Hellboy and The Umbrella Academy are now available through the iTunes Store, with subsequent issues available soon. Seed of Destruction is available as four issues at $0.99 each, or as a bundle of all four issues for $3.99. The first issue of Apocalypse Suite is available for free, with issues #2–#6 only $0.99 each, or a bundle of all six issues for $4.99.
If you’re interested in checking out Hellboy or the Umbrella for the first time, 99-cents isn’t a bad way to go.
If you would rather read your comics in electronic form, then you’ll be happy to hear that Boom! Studios has placed Mark Waid’s Irredeemable comic on the iPhone for all to buy. It’s all part of the deal with Comixology – which means you’ll need to buy the $1.99 Comixology app before buying the 99-cent comic.
“In superhero comics, pretty much everyone who’s called upon to put on a cape is, at heart, emotionally equipped for the job. I reject that premise,” said series writer and BOOM! Studios Editor-in-Chief Mark Waid. “IRREDEEMABLE is, in a way, my third and most complex chapter on the cost of superheroics – a pulp adventure tale of horror exploring how the lessons we learn about right and wrong as children can become warped and twisted when challenged by the realities of the adult world.”
The first four issues are available through the Comixology Comics App, now.
Marvel’s Digital Comics Unlimited service just got a tad more interesting with the release of the exclusive three-issue mini-series Wolverine vs. Thor.
From veteran Wolverine scribe Frank Tieri and fan favorite artist Paco Diaz, begins a three part epic in which Logan confronts by an army of his greatest foes—all at the same time! How can Wolvie possibly survive? And will Thor join the fray as friend or foe?
Those who are already subscribed to the service, can check the issue out right here.
Top Cow has announced The Darkness/Pitt #1 is now available for free as a digital download off the Comics by comiXology iPhone application.
“We’re thrilled to be a part of Top Cow’s strategy to get more exposure for The Darkness/Pitt. The long-awaited return of Pitt deserves great exposure to a wide audience, and our patent-pending Guided View really shines with the material,” explained comiXology President David Steinberger, “Many thousands of people now have the opportunity to read the first issue and use Comics by comiXology’s unique in-app connection to retailers to pre-order the next issue.”
If the iPhone/iPod Touch app isn’t your cup of tea, you can also find the issue at the comiXology.com website.
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In a partnership that will echo through the cosmos, Lucasfilm, THQ Wireless, and Dark Horse Comics will release Star Wars™ comics to the iPhone mobile platform for the first time ever!
The selection of Star Wars: The Clone Wars Vol. 1 – Shipyards of Doom, Star Wars: Empire Vol. 1 – Betrayal and Star Wars: Legacy Vol. 1 – Broken represents three of the most important time periods in the history of the Star Wars galaxy. The three collections will span the time between the Clone Wars era, the Classic era and the distant future.
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NBM Publishing is proud to announce partnering with Panelfly, the newly launched iPhone app that’s bringing the best graphic novels direct to you… instantly!
Sony has announced a new feature for PSP owners – comic books!
At gamescom in Cologne, Germany, Sony Computer Entertainment Europe announced the digital reader for PSPTM (PlayStation®Portable), a new service that will allow PSP owners to access a range of media on their PSP. The digital reader service will be launched with Digital Comics this December, putting PSP owners in control of a huge library of Digital Comics from several provider partners including—you guessed it, Marvel!
The Digital Comics service will allow owners to download select titles, which you can then read page by page or frame by frame.
“PSP’s new digital reader offers an unprecedented consumer experience that will extend the world of Marvel from print pages into the hands of fans around the world. We are excited to be part of this launch,” said Ira Rubenstein, executive vice president, global digital media group, Marvel Entertainment.
It’s interesting that Marvel decided to jump on the PSP bandwagon for the next stage of digital comics. On the one hand the screen for the PSP is much larger than what Apple is offering up with its iPhone, but on the other hand, one wonders how many people have a PSP? I still have one, but its been ages since it’s been turned on, and I’m not even sure i know where the damn thing is.
What say you Major Spoilerites? Is Marvel Digital Comics on PSP a good thing or a bad one?
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