Throughout Monday, (comiXology Support) was tweeting away, trying to extinguish intense fanboy blowback worthy of the Red Lantern Corps.

The response was so huge, and so many people started trying to download comics simultaneously, that few were able to download anything because the comiXology servers (which work fine about, oh, 99-percent of the time) weren’t prepared for the traffic.

When Marvel announced Sunday at SXSW that more than 700 No.-1 issues of its comics would be free to download on comiXology or the comiXology-fueled Marvel app (including the recently released Marvel NOW titles) through Tuesday, well, they might as well have had a picture of Mary Jane saying, “Face it, Tiger - you just hit the jackpot.”Īll of a sudden, if there was a Marvel title (especially one of the newer Marvel NOW titles) that you wanted to try out but didn’t because there are only so many four-dollar comics you can buy on a budget, it was there for the taking.īut when folks started downloading, soon nothing happened. IF YOU’RE WONDERING whether digital comic books are now just as essential to fanboys as bags and boards and long white storage boxes, look no further than the day that Marvel “broke” the Internet.

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