Bringing Comics to the Small Screen

As someone who loves to read comics in magazine format, I've been dreading the transition to digital comics for a while now. My anxiety stems from the belief that as publishers switch to digital comics they will release comics in digital only, phasing out the magazine format, only offering trades for fans who prefer print. Despite my fears, comic book publishers NEED to make their comics available digitally.

On Sunday, Marvel--one of the biggest and most successful comic book publishers--began a partnership with Panelfly to bring their comics to the iPhone.

Through the iPhone app, you can read many new Marvel comics as well as older ones like the first issues of Spider-Man, X-Men and Ironman. Personally, I've downloaded Panelfly, Comic Reader Mobi, iVerse, ClickWheel and The Comics by ComiXology and the latter was definitely the best reader of the bunch. It's the easiest to use and if you haven't been looking forward to reading your comics on a small screen like me, the ComiXology app might help you warm up to the idea.

Now, it's just a waiting game before DC Comics jumps on board and I can start reading Batman on my iTouch.