Digital Comics Store Update (24th November 2010)

Sitting inside, watching the snow outside the window. Its so calming.
Strange to think that something like a little snow, can create trubble somewhere, and elsewhere not.

The good old questions:
Release in Scandinavia/rest of EU?
Comics reader for PS3
And Crossregion gifting?

More companies joining is always a good thing. Would Boom! be kind enough to put their rather excellent Darkwing Duck comic on the store or do they need Disney’s permission?

No snow over here but I will join the question que of post 1.

Would love to have this service available on Portugal! Damn.

and I’ll be joining the question queue of post 1 too.

Are you still in talks with SCEE and/or publishers or are you having a tea party?

Here are two Videoes I took at same spot, One at fall, and one early winter,
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lv_qmXvWBvA
to
http://www.youtube.c om/watch?v=zgjS9jcekWQ

(one or both links will probably break, by getting a space in it, just copy the whole part and remove the space)

Nice to see how nature changes.
No complaining on video quality, its a PSP camera.

Do we have any manga on here yet? You should contact all the manga publishers theres a ton to be had.

So even though it’s a month late, Boom! are finally on the store, but I have to say, three issues of 28 Days Later is a shockingly poor way for a new publisher the size Boom! to launch! I’m not at all surprised though given the fact that it’s iVerse that are handling the Boom! releases

The press release from Boom that was released on the 7th October not only said they would be releasing before the end of October, but “in partnership with iVerse Media, has committed to make their entire frontlist and backlist catalog of comics available on the SONY PSP in the coming months.”
http://www.comicbookresources.com/?page=article&id=28737

It’s going to take a hell of alot longer than a few months to do that if this launch is anything to go by.

has it really been almost a year since the comic store launched?
it’s been a wild ride.
here’s to many more years as good as this one, throughout the rest of europe and on ps3 too.

I have to ask again, just where exactly are all these comics? I’ve searched the playstation store and pretty much every menu and option but can’t find a single mention of comics or a comic store? Where are we supposed to find and download these things?

oh yeah, almost forgot, well, i did forget, but i remembered now.

do you know if the dc universe comic will be on the store?

oh and it’d be cool if marvel release the tron comic on the store as well, any news on that front?

Can we run the EU comic reader on a Japanese PSP yet?

No, thought not. >:-(

Hi Pauline,
Thanks for getting 28 Days Later, that is one of the comics I asked about!

Since you are getting Ultimate Iron Man – will you eventually be getting other Ultimate lines – Spiderman, Fantastic Four, The Ultimates, etc?

Hi Pauline,

I asked over a month ago about the possibility of there being anymore Sonic the Hedgehog comics past the first 4. Has Archie made any comments on whether they’re adding anymore. Seems a shame to just add four and be done with it.

Thanks!!

If you are SCEE who or what’s delaying the release in other EU countries?

@ StefNighthawk

Another interesting question that I myself would like to know as well…??

Well maybe you want to ask the guys over @ SCEE to make proper psn subscriptions.I bet there will be enough people willing to pay for services and extra stores.. If that is the problem..

Cause getting a online store up and running what are the things you got to keep in mind..

Server Space
Download/upload speed
Server Maintenance

If just for once someone came up here and explained to us what is taking so long maybe we would understand.

“I know – we need a comic-shaped cake with one candle soon.
Thank you, here’s to that!”

Before I forget it ain’t no celebration without the rest of Europe!!

From the Q&A no date yet but at least a bit more about what is happening… Apperently it is pretty difficult to launch new stores no matter what the stores will contain/sell..

4.When will the service be released to the rest of EU and North America?

We have a date but it’s still not 100% confirmed so I don’t want to promise anything. As you know we were originally expecting these new stores at the beginning of the year. However it seems that switching on a store is more complicated than it seems! We do have some very exciting local publishers lined up for the EU and our plan is to also release our English catalogue where the licence allows.