Wednesday and Thursday were pretty big days for digital comics – First, IDW Publishing landed on Barnes & Nobles' new Nook Tablet with over 15 of their hottest titles, then Marvel released the new Marvel Comics app 3.0 and Dark Horse announced they'd be delivering all of their titles day & date digitally the same day as print. Yea, all of that happened in two days... Head past the break for the lowdown on all of this digital comics madness!
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IDW Publishing
The Nook Tablet is Barnes & Nobles recent replacement for their popular Nook Color eReader. It runs a custom version of Google's Android OS and gives users access to TV, movies, games, apps, e-mail and best of all full color comics books. To make things even better, IDW recently struck a new deal with the big-time book seller, bringing titles such as Locke & Key, True Blood and Bloom County to the tablet. You can check out the full list of IDW comics now available on the Nook Tablet below.
• Bloom County: The Complete Digital Library Volume 1 1980-1981
• Bloom County: The Complete Digital Library Volume 2 1982
• Bloom County: The Complete Digital Library Volume 3 1983
• Code Word: Geronimo
• Doctor Who: Fugitive
• Doctor Who: Tessaract
• Doctor Who: Agent Provocateur
• Doctor Who: The Forgotten
• Doctor Who: Through Time and Space
• Doctor Who: Fairy Tale
• Dead Space
• Dragon Age
• G.I. JOE: Hearts & Minds
• The Last Unicorn
• Little Adventures in Oz Vol. 1
• Locke & Key Vol. 1: Welcome to Lovecraft
• Locke & Key Vol. 2: Head Games
• Locke & Key Vol. 3: Crown of Shadows
• Locke & Key Vol. 4: Keys to the Kingdom
• The Murder of King Tut
• Mystery Society
• Parker: The Hunter
• Parker: The Outfit
• The Rocketeer: The Complete Adventures
• Star Trek: Countdown
• Star Trek: The Movie Adaptation
• Star Trek: Nero
• Star Trek: Spock Reflections
• TRANSFORMERS 3: Dark of the Moon Movie Adaptation
• True Blood Vol.1: All Together Now
• Witch & Wizard: Battle for Shadowland
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Marvel Comics
The Marvel Comics app gives users access to the publisher's massive library of digital titles anytime, anywhere on iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch. Now Marvel has updated the app to version 3.0 and brought a new interface, broader search and browse functions, improved performance and stability, easier purchase and download management, a new reader, background downloading and faster load times overall. Those of you who loved ComiXology's recent upgrade to version 3.0 will probably have the same feelings for Marvel's new app. It really is a great update, so grab your iOS device and check it out.
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Dark Horse
Dark Horse originally launched their digital comics app earlier this year and has seen great success with new readers jumping in on the fun everyday. To show the same support fans have shown them in the digital space they announced on Thursday that every single one of their title will be available digitally the same day print issues hit the local comic shop beginning December 14th! Dark Horse Digital is available on Android devices as well as Apple's iOS devies and you can head over to digital.darkhorse.com for all the info.
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