Welcome to Digital ComicsAlliance, your headquarters for digital comics news and recommendations. We're switching gears a little this week and bringing you three of the very best Spider-Man stories in recent memory, with some of the most touching writing and incredibly appealing art you'll ever see out of a Marvel comic.
Creative Team: Brian Azzarello (writer), Eduardo Risso (art), Patricia Mulvihill (colors), Clem Robins (letters)
Platform: ComiXology (iOS, Web, Android)
Price: $1.99
Format: One issue
Why: Azzarello, Risso, and Mulvihill are responsible for one of my favorite comics series of all time--100 Bullets. This is the third stab at Batman as a unit, after Batman: Broken City and the Batman strip in Wednesday Comics. This try isn't as darkly comedic as Broken City or as distilled as their take from Wednesday Comics, but it is the best part of the Flashpoint event. Thomas Wayne is Batman, and that little change makes all the difference. This Batman is meaner and more serious than the one we know and love, with different ways of operating in Gotham and a willingness to put criminals under the ground. Azzarello's script is as enjoyable twisty as usual, with plenty of clever dialogue to chew over, and Risso and Mulvihill do what they do best: beautiful, moody comics featuring people who feel like real life in all its skinny, warty, pouty, sexy, beautiful glory.
Image via CrunchBaseThis is just interesting news. I've never heard of Graphic.ly before today but the prospect of an application for PC's and Macs for reading digital comics - legally. I like the idea. What I don't like is needing multiple platforms for reading them on multiple devices. I with I could get a subscription and read them on anything: PCs, iPhones, iPod Touches, iPads, Android Phones, Macs, PS3s, and PSPs. 
Since comics first moved to the internet, there's been a lot of discussion about how the digital world could potentially change the way people make and read comics. A new iPad and iPhone comic titled "The First Witch" is trying a new experiment: using the screen as a window into the comic book world, where the scene changes as you physically move your device around.
The comic was written and drawn by Karrie Fransman and created by Jonathan Plackett, who explained that the comic "uses the accelerometer in iStuff to create a new reading experience. Tilting the device changes the part of the comic you're looking at, giving the appearance of looking through a window into the scene."
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