I live in rural NM, and getting physical comics is a trek. I used to use Comixology, but missed physical books so much I opened a comic and game shop in my small town. The comic side of things failed, my game sales were financing the comics. So after just over a year i cancelled my comic account to focus on the games.
Since then Amazon took over comixology and moved shopping for comics onto Amazon, which after three days of trying to find titles I have decided to explore other avenues.
I know when I was selling comic books marvel had their own app, do all of the publishers have those? Or is Amazon the only name in the game?
I am looking to catch up on Dynamite’s Red Sonya, Marvel’s Conan, Elfquest, anything X-Force, X-23, and probably Firefly. I have not read a comic since my last order came into the shop in January 2020. The news of the new X-23 series is what started to pull me back in again, I did manage to get a subscription to that on Amazon.
Do you have a library in your area?
Have you gone and gotten a library card?
If so, then you might be able to use Hoopla to have access to more comic book publishers.
Related to the other comments, I read Marvel and DC up until I switched to Hellboy of Dark Horse Comics having wanted to read more indie comics that I currently enjoy now, although I still read physical comics of the Big Two that they have.
They have LOTS of comics with up to six borrows per month enabling you to find what you want.
Maybe you also like manga that they have too?
Because they recently added manga to their repertoire of readable materials although I’ve mainly used Hoopla for reading comics.
I will look into hoopla. But absolutely not a fan of manga.
I totally get that. Manga comes from a country (Japan) with different values than ours.
The same goes for anime, another topic.