DC, Image, and Dark Horse all had announcements to make in the digital realm this week.
DC will offer three of its top All In titles to its DC GO! vertical-scroll webcomics platform. Absolute Batman, by Scott Snyder and Nick Dragotta, Absolute Wonder Woman, by Kelly Thompson and Hayden Sherman, and Absolute Superman,by Jason Aaron and Rafa Sandoval, will all be available as webtoons, available to paid subscribers to the DC Universe Infinite digital service; the first chapter of each will also be available for free, without a subscription.
DC GO! is a webcomics collection within the DCUI that presents original and legacy comics as vertical-scroll webtoons; the service offers both original titles, such as Harley Quinn in Paradise and Nothing Butt Nightwing, and reformatted legacy titles, including All-Star Superman, Batman: Court of Owls, and Supergirl: Woman of Tomorrow.
DC launched its All In and Absolute initiatives in October 2024 (see “DC to Launch ‘Absolute Universe’”).
Image Comics has signed on to a new digital comics app, Sweet Shop, which will launch in summer 2025. Unlike most new digital comics platforms, Sweet Shop offers in-app purchases and DRM-free PDFs, rather than an all-you-can-read subscription plan, and it will support left-to-right, right-to-left, and vertical-scroll reading. The platform will also have a retailer affiliate program. Image’s Sweet Shop titles will include James Tynion IV and Michael Walsh’s just-announced Exquisite Corpses (see “James Tynion IV, Michael Walsh, and 10 Artists to Construct ‘Exquisite Corpses’”), as well as comics from Ghost Machine (see “ComicsPRO: Ghost Machine Announces Two Titles”) and longer-running series such as Transformers, Spawn, Invincible, and The Walking Dead.
Dark Horse shut down purchases on its digital comics platform, as well as its Plants vs. Zombies comic app, on February 24, 2025, with no warning. The website and apps are still available for reading previously purchased comics, but they will not be supported after March 31, 2025, and readers were advised to download their comics before March 30.
Dark Horse announced its digital comics platform in 2010 (see “Dark Horse Goes Its Own Way on Digital”), although it didn’t go live until the following year (see “Mike Richardson & Matt Parkinson”).
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