A Report From the Acacacacademy: Comixology Unlimited: The Trial Period

So . . . a 30-Day Free Trial, huh? You pretty much can't go wrong with that, right? So I decided that today was the day to give it a shot.

The sign-up was very easy. I clicked a button on the main page to take me to Comixology Unlimited, then clicked a button to verify my payment method, and I was in.

And I knew right where I wanted to start. I found Starstruck--the IDW collection of the previously published 13 issues--and got down to it. And I have to say, it didn't take more than the first image for me to see that Michael William Kaluta's art looked absolutely breathtaking in this format. And that is not a word I tend to use, brahs and tahs. It was also lovely to be able to enlarge the panels to examine the finer details . . . and MWK's art can stand up to that kind of scrutiny. With the backlit computer screen, comic book art really intensifies. The colors become so much more vivid and nuanced. It's just freaking beautiful.

Day One: Starstruck Volume 1 and Adventure Time Volume 1
Day Two: still reading Starstruck, finished AT 1 and downloaded Adventure Time Volume 2
I also did some browsing to see what there was to see and came up with this preliminary list of 

Things on Comixology Unlimited That I Want to Read:

The Shadow 1941: Hitler's Astrologer
The Shadow Vol. 1: Fire of Creation
Love and Rockets: New Stories 1 and 2
Love and Rockets: The Love Bunglers
Maggie the Mechanic: The Love and Rockets Library - Locas Book 1
Heartbreak Soup: The Love and Rockets Library - Palomar Book 1
The Incal Vol. 1: The Black Incal
The Metabarons Vol. 1: Othon
Wytches Vol. 1
Copperhead Vol. 1: A New Sheriff In Town
Bitch Planet Vol. 1: Extraordinary Machine
Archie 1 -6
MIND MGMT Vol. 1: The Manager
Krazy and Ignatz: 1916-1918 - Love in a Kestle or Love in a Hut
Krazy and Ignatz: 1919-1921 - Benevolent Brick
Krazy and Ignatz: 1922-1924 - Drim of Love
Krazy and Ignatz: 1925-1926 - There is a Heppy Land Furfur A-waay
Krazy and Ignatz: 1939-1940 - A Brick Stuffed with Moombins
Jim
Gast
Chilling Adventures of Sabrina Vol. 1

Pretty good starting list, hmmm? I also decided that I wanted to keep track of how many comic book pages I read on Comixology, so I'm going to do a running total of that at the bottom of this page.

Day Three: Still reading S and AT2, but I did have a look at Frank Thorne's Red Sonja Artist Edition, which was interesting. I wish that there were more Artist Editions here, but it looks like this is the only one.

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