A few months ago Aspen
announced that it was going digital. I know people are tired of the digital discussion,
but it's important to the future of comics. Well Aspen has announced that its
now on, not one, but two different platforms and one of them being our personal
favorite around the digital news room here at Player Affinity.
The first platform is iVerse, which caught a lot of early adaptors to the
digital platform. Aspen will also be participating in iVerse and Diamond's
Digital retailer incentive program that launched earlier this year. Here's a
blurb from Aspen themselves:
“Aspen is extremely pleased to be partnering up with iVerse
Media to bring our growing library of titles to their awesome platform, “said
Aspen Editor-In-Chief Vince Hernandez. “We look forward to providing
brand new as well as popular existing Aspen content for their customers, who
can expect the same level of quality we’re known for on all our future digital
releases with iVerse.” 
Here are the books
that are available from iVerse and Aspen right now!
Executive
Assistant: Iris Preview FREE
Executive Assistant: Iris #0 FREE
Executive Assistant: Iris #1 $1.99
Executive Assistant: Iris #2 $1.99
Fathom Vol.1 #0 FREE
Fathom Vol.1 #1 $1.99
Fathom Vol.1 #2 $1.99
Shrugged Preview FREE
Shrugged #0 FREE
Shrugged #1 $1.99
Shrugged #2 $1.99
Titles are available now in the Comics + Application for iOS. For more
information visit: http://comicspl.us
The next bit of digital Aspen news is that they've also partnered up with
Graphicly which If you've been checking out our reviews, you may have noticed
their nifty widget at the bottom of several of our reviews. Now you're probably
expecting the same batch of books, but you're wrong... they have more titles!
So you can get everything above, but you can also get their flagship Michael
Turner books Soul Fire and Fathom!
Graphicly is teaming up with Aspen Comics this summer to bring the publishers’
growing catalogue of books to their impressive digital platform. Aspen will be
releasing an initial wave of different titles on the Graphicly app, highlighted
by the first volumes of both of their two popular flagship series: Michael Turner’s
Fathom and Soulfire.
“We can’t think of a better way to kick off summer than by bringing Aspen
Comics to Graphicly,” said Micah Baldwin, CEO of Graphicly. “We’re stoked to
bring such an expansive library like the one Aspen Comics has to offer, and
make it even easier for Aspen and their creators to connect with their fans”
The full list of Aspen titles available in the first wave includes single
issues and complete volume sets of the following popular series:
Aspen Extended Edition (1-2)
Executive Assistant: Iris Volume One
Fathom: “Against All Odds” (Single Issue)
Fathom: Dawn of War
Fathom: Volume One
Fathom: Cannon Hawke
Fathom: Kiani Volume One
Michael Turner Tribute Edition (Single Issue)
Shrugged Volume One
Soulfire Volume One
Titles are available now on Graphicly.com as well as through the Graphicly
applications for the Apple iPhone, iPad and Android devices.
“The encouragement for the next issue of Lady Mechanika, and the patience of both the fans and retailers in this regard
cannot be understated. We’re so thankful that everyone understood that the
situation for the delay was unplanned and definitely unintended. We’re well aware
of the importance of delivering the series on time and apologize for any
inconvenience caused by the delay. But, we’re also thrilled to be able to
provide, in our opinion, an amazing issue #2 that we are extremely proud of,
and I think that people will really be pleased with the final product.”
Well guess what? We've read the second issue and even though parts of it are a
bit chatty I have to say I enjoyed it. The art is killer and it's great to see
a writer/artist creator owned book on the market of such high quality. The book
will be out July 13th, but you can expect a review much sooner than that...
like later today probably. Until then you get to check out the awesome covers,
so enjoy!
