I signed up on day 1 and have already paid for the subscription. There were a lot of good freebies (well, not free due to membership) at first. Don’t know about going forward.
First appearances in indie books are like tits on a bull… the only time these really mattered was when Walking Dead was at it’s peak and prime during it’s show…
Looks like the A cover is going up to $4.99 with issue 25. Wouldn’t surprise me to see $4.99 become the default price for all books by the end of the year.
Seems like DC is now leading the pack in raising the cover price as well. They charge $1 more just for the card stock covers… At least Marvel gives you a digital code so you don’t have to manhandle your comics to read them as an option.
DC ditched $2.99 around 2018. They’ve been aggressive with pricing lately, too, and I’ve dropped purchases as a result. But I will say their physical product (paper) looks so much better than what Marvel’s using (I mean Marvel’s regular “meh” paper, not the super-thin garbage they’ve experimented with lately).
I pull mine back enough to not pull off, get the code, push back down and then close comic. After they sit in the longbox for months or years, it’s like you never peeled it off.
My wife and I went to the panel yesterday and here is what they announced on whats coming up and some cool first look (at least to me) of the design work. We also got a limited poster which was cool.