The biggest digital storefront for comics just announced a new flat-rate service that lets users read through thousands of stories for $6/month.
Comixology Unlimited gathers together back-catalog offerings from Image, Boom!, IDW, Dark Horse and other publishers under one banner. DC and Marvel are conspicuous in their absence, but the latter already has a similar service in the form of Marvel Unlimited. (DC has yet to get with the program…) The press release sent out today includes an initial list of titles:
- Adventure Time by Ryan North, Braden Lamb, Shelli Paroline and various (BOOM! Studios)
- Aliens by Mark Verheiden, Sam Kieth, Peter Milligan and various (Dark Horse Comics)
- Archie by Mark Waid and Fiona Staples (Archie Comics)
- Attack on Titan by Hajime Isayama (Kodansha Comics)
- Atomic Robo by Brian Clevinger and Scott Wegener (Tesladyne)
- Bitch Planet by Kelly Sue DeConnick and Valentine De Landro (Image Comics)
- Bloodshot by Duane Swierczynski, Manuel Garcia and Arturo Lozzi (Valiant Entertainment)
- The Boys by Garth Ennis and Darick Robertson (Dynamite Entertainment)
- Buffy the Vampire Slayer by Joss Whedon and various (Dark Horse Comics)
- Chew by John Layman and Rob Guillory (Image Comics)
- The Complete Peanuts by Charles Schulz (Fantagraphics Books)
- Conan the Barbarian by Brian Wood and Becky Cloonan (Dark Horse Comics)
- Fairy Tail by Hiro Mashima (Kodansha Comics)
- Fatale by Ed Brubaker and Sean Phillips (Image Comics)
- Ghostbusters by Erik Burnham, Dan Schoening, and various (IDW Publishing)
- G.I. Joe by Chuck Dixon, Robert Atkins and various (IDW Publishing)
- Grimm Fairy Tales by Ralph Tedesco, Joe Tyler and various (Zenescope Entertainment)
- Godzilla by Duane Swierczynski, Arthur Adams, Simon Gane and various (IDW Publishing)
- Hellboy by Mike Mignola (Dark Horse Comics)
- Hip Hop Family Tree by Ed Piskor (Fantagraphics Books)
- The Incal by Alexandro Jodorowsky and Moebius (Humanoids)
- Lazarus by Greg Rucka and Michael Lark (Image Comics)
- Letter 44 by Charles Soule and Alberto Alburquerque (Oni Press)
- Lone Wolf and Cub by Kazuo Koike and Goseki Kojima (Dark Horse Comics)
- Love and Rockets by Jaime and Gilbert Hernandez (Fantagraphics Books)
- Locke & Key by Joe Hill and Gabriel Rodriguez (IDW Publishing)
- Lumberjanes by Shannon Watters, Grace Ellis, Noelle Stevenson and Brooke Allen (BOOM! Studios)
- My Little Pony by Katie Cook and Andy Price (IDW Publishing)
- Outcast by Robert Kirkman and Paul Azaceta (Image Comics)
- Pretty Deadly by Kelly Sue DeConnick and Emma Rios (Image Comics)
- Princeless by Jeremy Whitley and various (Action Lab Entertainment)
- Red Sonja by by Gail Simone, Jenny Frison, and Walter Geovanni (Dynamite Entertainment)
- Saga by Brian K. Vaughan and Fiona Staples (Image Comics)
- Serenity by Joss Whedon, Brett Matthews and Will Conrad (Dark Horse Comics)
- Scott Pilgrim by Bryan Lee O’Malley (Oni Press)
- Sex Criminals by Matt Fraction and Chip Zdarsky (Image Comics)
- Spawn by Todd McFarlane (Image Comics)
- Star Trek by Mike Johnson, Stephen Molnar, Joe Corroney and various (IDW Publishing)
- Poorcraft: The Funnybook Fundamentals of Living Well on Less by C. Spike Trotman and (Iron Circus Comics)
- Transformers by John Barber, Andrew Griffith, Marcelo Matere and various (IDW Publishing)
- The Umbrella Academy by Gerard Way and Gabriel Bá (Dark Horse Comics)
- Usagi Yojimbo by Stan Sakai (Dark Horse Comics)
- The Walking Dead by Robert Kirkman, Tony Moore and Charlie Adlard (Image Comics)
- The Wicked + The Divine by Kieron Gillen and Jamie McKelvie (Image Comics)
- Wonderland by Raven Gregory and Sheldon Goh (Zenescope Entertainment)
- Wuvable Oaf by Ed Luce (Fantagraphics)
- X-O Manowar by Robert Venditti and Cary Nord(Valiant Entertainment)
The press release doesn’t specify as to how wide the gap will be between new releases and the most recent installment of ongoing titles on the service. But it seems safe to assume that, as with Marvel Unlimited’s eight-month gap, publishers participating in Comixology Unlimited won’t curate titles all the way up to their freshest offerings. Nevertheless, this is already an impressive selection of series which makes some of the best titles being published today available to try for a very good price.