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Hi,

Last night while playing my favourite MMORPG, one of my guild mates told me there was a website that sells online access to comic books for an annual/monthly fee. He mentioned Marvel but hinted at other comics.

Is there an official site where this is legal?
I'd like to start reading up on Deadpool (got issue #1 as a gift with a PC magazine some time ago), the myriad X-Men, and other comic books (DC as well as Marvel), but I don't have access to the paper issues, our country doesn't get them and delivery and customs fees on websites like Amazon are prohibitive.

I occasionally buy some mangas, or other comics when I travel to France, but most western comics aren't available in their original language and I'd prefer to start reading from the start of whatever story arc is currently running.

You can just check large torrent sites for batches of comic books. Personally, I've found comics ranging from Deadpool to Spiderman to She Hulk in the past month. And, like mentioned, onemanga is great for manga.

At that price I'ldconsider joining up too. There are plenty of oldcomics I'ld like to read and it's cheaper than buying them, although offcourse you don't have a real copy.

Well, status update.

I subscribed, the price is as stated, no hidden fees or other shenanigans. It IS automatically recurring unless you say stop, so I set up a reminder for March 2010 in order to stop it if I want to.

The reader is a flash thingy that I haven't tried to mess with yet, so I'm not totally sure if I can save something on my hard drive or not. It will be reserved for the best stuff I read and it IS allowed in the TOS I digitally signed to make a copy for myself. I just haven't fiddled with it yet.

I am now reading New Avengers #13. I read the 12 before it and they're all picture perfect.

I read a couple of old ones, like the first Daredevil, and MAN were puns and one-liners corny (or they are corny by today's standards). The scan quality isn't bad, I suppose the grainy pictures come from the old paper.

They don't have everything, Daredevil for example, 1 through 41, then 47, 81, 102, 131, 132, 146, 158 through 191, 215, 216, 217, etc...
If you're thinking about it and want some specific issue, ask me in this thread, I'll check what's available and what's not.

I do believe they're adding more and more scans, but I can't be sure if they'll put everything or if some issues are truly lost forever.


All in all, I don't regret the impulsive 1 year subscription yet, a monthly fee of $10 is available as well, but considering that I'll recuperate those 60 bucks with a few more books, it's a good purchase.

If you choose the view mode "Single Page", you only have to go up and down, the size is readable without zooming, and you only have to go left and right on those 2 page special pages, which aren't too numerous.

I am starting to get annoyed a bit, though.

There are holes in some of the story lines I'd like to see filled. I didn't find the death of Captain America, which I suppose is there but hidden in some esoteric fashion. The whole Civil War is not fully covered, 2/7 in one series, 7/11 in another, etc...

Still I did get more than my money's worth already. I've perused the Amazing Spiderman, the New Avengers, Ironman, and some other series, with a lot more to go.

Anyone knows of a nice storyline for me to check?

I'll try it out, thanks for the tip!

As for storylines, I liked the Onslaught series, but again, it doesn't seem complete. Older storylines that are better include "Age of Apocalypse", "Inferno", "Executioner's Song".

Unfortunately, they don't seem to be gathered in one handy series, or aren't complete. It's hard to dig through all the X-men comics to find exactly the ones you need to read to get the whole storyline, especially if all Marvel comics are involved.

You could google a storyline, find all the numbers of the comics involved and look them up on that Marvel site. It would be well worth it for several storylines.

Quite true, most crossovers really influence just about all series, it can be extremely confusing to not read all of them just to know what all the changes are.

As for that Wolverine 75, you need the giant first X-Men episode to get the full details on what exactly happened. I can recommend it, it's a very good one.

I can tell you what happened too though.

It was a pretty brutal change which indeed just seemed to come out of nowhere. It reminds me of the changes that followed the first "Secret Wars" crossover quite a bit before Wolverine 75. Most in particular for Spiderman ofcourse, although there were some changes for the X-Men too.