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The iPad, Digital Comics and the Lost Generation at Pop Dose

The short-term appeal of Marvel and DC’s digital apps which no one is talking about is how can they bring back readers who, for one reason or another, went cold turkey on comics and haven’t been back to their comic shop in years.  We always talk about the mythical “new reader,” but we hardly ever talk about how do we win back that audience who has disappeared over the years.  I think we just kind of assume that either they’ll be back or they won’t.  That’s where I think the brilliance of DC’s selection of experimenting with Justice League: Generation Lost comes in; it plays almost perfectly to the 35-40 year old potential fan of today who may just notice a bit of their childhood while skimming around, looking for something new to do with their iPad.  It’s not preaching to the converted and it’s not trying to reach the untapped; it’s going after the lapsed.

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I have a friend who I haven't seen in years but he used to be as voracious a comic collector as I was.  But, like so many people, he discovered other things and dropped out of collecting comics somewhere around 1990.  He picked up the occasional book now and again and I know he loved Astro City when he finally discovered it around 2001, but he never got back into comics on any kind of regular basis.  For some reason, I think that the iPad and programs like Comixology are just perfect for him.