{"id":2862,"date":"2011-02-01T21:42:28","date_gmt":"2011-02-01T21:42:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=2862"},"modified":"2011-02-01T21:42:28","modified_gmt":"2011-02-01T21:42:28","slug":"boom_pow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=2862","title":{"rendered":"Boom! Pow!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Having decided that I don&#8217;t spend nearly enough time on the computer already, I signed up for an annual subscription to <a href=\"http:\/\/marvel.com\/digital_comics\/\">Marvel&#8217;s digital comics service<\/a>. I&#8217;ve only used it for a couple days, but I feel comfortable making a couple critical assessments. First, the interface is quite good. It&#8217;s easy to switch between panel and page views with a mouse click. Flipping through pages is smooth and, once you&#8217;ve finished reading an issue, Marvel provides a convenient link to the next issue in the series. <\/p>\n<p>Second, there are significant gaps in Marvel&#8217;s digital library. Big event series like <i>The Dark Tower<\/i> are completely missing while other series have gaping holes that span several years. It&#8217;s reminiscent of the early years of iTunes when its music collection was spotty. Marvel is constantly expanding its digital offerings and those gaps will eventually be filled in. And there&#8217;s plenty of content already available to justify a subscription price of less than $60.<\/p>\n<p>Now, back to reading <i>Runaways<\/i>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Having decided that I don&#8217;t spend nearly enough time on the computer already, I signed up for an annual subscription to Marvel&#8217;s digital comics service. I&#8217;ve only used it for a couple days, but I feel comfortable making a couple critical assessments. First, the interface is quite good. It&#8217;s easy to switch between panel and <a href='https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=2862' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sfsi_plus_gutenberg_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_show_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_type":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_alignemt":"","sfsi_plus_gutenburg_max_per_row":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2862","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","category-1-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s9Iwau-boom_pow","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2862","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2862"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2862\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2862"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2862"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2862"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}