A World of Only Digital Comic Books
When comic books are only digital, what happens to collectors? – MSN How To Geek
Was this written by AI?
Physical media as a whole is fading away to be overtaken by digital versions that offer more convenience and easier access..."
Have you been in a Barnes and Noble lately?
For someone like me, who wants to read comics but not necessarily collect them, this shift to digital has been great. There's no way I could actually afford the first issue of Spider-Man after all...."
What? There's a million reprints of Amazing Fantasy #15 out there in books and even cheap facsimile editions. Oh, but you're saying "Spider-Man #1" - - do you mean Amazing Spider-Man #1? Can an AI even know what it means? And the original Steve Ditko Spider-Man, by the way, is online at achive.org
In a digital-only comic future, is there any place for collectors? One option is for comic companies to do specific collector's edition prints of comics. The same way that we now get fancy collectible 4K UHD Blu-ray releases..."
"Fancy" gives the game away, this is a generated AI article musing about physical media going extinct and people existing in an "all digital world," something an AI, if it could have a personality, would probably desire as much as Skynet does.
Though there is a "biography" of this writer in the article (I suspect the person who wrote the prompts for the AI to generate the article, though there's no actual name given) but it is rather generic though placed in a foreign country. But, there's nothing in the article which covers the truly important issues, like when will someone (maybe an AI!) come up with a foolproof mylar sleeve that once you slide your CGC 3.0 copy of whatever into it, it will be cleansed and straightened and flattened, and when you pull it back out its now a 9.8.
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Original Page October 30, 2025