Heroes are phoning it in
by: Average Joe 2 years, 3 months, 4 days, 4 hours, 16 minutes ago 1
Email Article Print ArticleNew article talks about the digital age of superheroes and comic books, and how this new medium might help reach an all new audience.
Lufguy sent in a link to this article that talks about the new digital age of comic books, and how it may affect the market, and potentially bring in a new group of readers who might be familiar with films based on comic books, but not the original source material.
For an industry struggling to translate the box office numbers of comic book movies into new readers of the source material they’re based on, it could be a new means to reach a youth culture that spends a lot of time playing video games and using cell phones.
"Technology is going towards your pocket - literally,” said Fahim Niaz, a product manager at e frontier, a Japanese software company that works with manga companies. “The revolution started with the ipod and the video iPod. It’s only a natural progression that you’ll see that in comic books."
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I can see this pocket tech reaching out to folks who have to have the latest in tech. There may also be a 3 year old who will, one day, buy all his comics on his phone and wonder why his Dad bothered with paper.
Of course, a lot of good tech began quickly and disappeared just as quickly.