Amazon Messing Up Reading Comics is the Most 2022 Thing to Happen Yet.

Nope 2022 is not giving what the kids refer to as, “what it’s supposed to give.” A rapper that changed my whole taste in music has devolved into a stalker ex-husband, gas is climbing towards five dollars a gallon, Atlanta is ending later this year…And now Amazon has ruined my comic book reading experience. For the last few years, Comixology spared me a trudge across town to one of the only comic shops in said town worth visiting in search of my weekly haul. I never have to pre-order, the website never runs out of copies because it’s all digital and I saved physical space while still getting to collect comics. It was my slow ease into converting to digital comics. Comixology has become an electronic ‘trudge across town’ in its own right. After fifteen years and over two hundred million downloads, Amazon did the only thing they could possibly do: they made a good thing bad. Last week, the platform released an update that essentially integrated it into a “Kindle Comics” Amazon page. See below:

Sure, there’s still all of the trademark signage of the original, but it’s still more or less an Amazon page. The Comixology reader has been replaced by a basic Kindle equivalent, far less specialized for reading comics than its predecessor. Lemme Downgrade You To say that this update was a catastrophic downgrade for the platform is a fighting words level insult to the phrase ‘catastrophe’. Even if you forget about how confounding the new site-slash-app is to navigate or how basic and …