I don't expect Sony to beat the pricing of the $.25 bin at your local comic shop. Personally, I don't even expect Marvel to match the pricing of some of their DVD releases. But if I can finally get the convenience of not having to go to a dickhead ran comic shop on a seemingly random schedule just to follow a book or to, I may go back to US comics instead of purely manga.

I hope they don't price these stupid. I really like the flow of the reader and I like the convenience. The only negatives I see are no DC and the price (if they decide to overprice it).

@Silent Protagonist
Definately agreed on the whole Marvel writing happening in circles. Always been that way. But I admittedly find Marvel characters significantly more compelling. Plus I've been wanting to read the Civil War saga but I'm not about to hunt down all 193 comics. So Marvel did one of their DVDs for that and sold it for $90, which I would have grabbed no problem. Except those bastards made it limited edition and it now goes for around $200 on the secondary market. Considering I paid $40 for 40+ years of scanned Uncanny X-men issues, $200 for Civil War is too much.

But that goes to my point. Marvel writing hasn't evolved much. BUT as early as 1996, Marvel was hinting at putting comics online. It was a major push by Dreamcasts launch. Marvel was even one of the early supporters of digital inking and coloring techniques (which they heavily abused for a bit but eventually scaled it back). Technology wise, I can see why Marvel is prepared and DC, as per usual, is caught with their pants down. I don't think it's a matter of DC Comic not WANTING to be part of this, it's more of a matter of DC Comics being afraid of this. After all, in their mind, and I've heard it said many times from insiders, they're afraid digital distribution will kill their published copies sales. Further from the truth. DC has lost a lot of my money, personally, because comics are a BITCH to follow. So I switched to Manga...