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ComiXology Continues To Crash – But Some Free Gems If You Can Get Through

Published Mon, 11 Mar 2013 04:55:33 -0500

Last updated Mon, 11 Mar 2013 05:58:26 -0500

So, @bleedingcool, your bit re: @marvel releasing 700 free #1 issues today at @comixology should instead say Marvel did a DNS attack on 'em.

— Jason Tippitt (@TippittJason) March 11, 2013

It's a good point.

Thanks to all for your patience. @comixology team is working non-stop. If you get a "download error" your purchase has been recorded. — David Steinberger (@stonemtn) March 11, 2013

So, yes, buying anything from ComiXology is a bit of a pain right now, let alone the Marvel 700 free issue ones, as everyone tries to download what they can. Here are a few tips – before the East Coast office crowd wakes up.

I chose the wrong day to forget my comixology password.

— Heidi MacDonald (@Comixace) March 11, 2013

If you can use the ComiXology website, use the website. It may be slow and crash worthy, if you are trying to download everything, but it's the easiest way to select all 700 issues in batches of 40 or so. Doing it on an App means selecting them individually. And then they don't work.

I feel for the Comixology support folks, working late into the night to get servers up and running again.

— Chris Roberson (@chris_roberson) March 11, 2013

Watch out for X-Men: Messiah Complex #1 – for whatever reason, even though this is listed in among the free comics, it comes through at $1.99.

@brianmbendis Stupidest idea ever. No one thought that it would overload servers making it impossible 2 download? More than 2 days r needed. — Troy Robbins (@troyrobbins) March 11, 2013

Although the idea behind the free first issues will be to encourage people to buy second issues, there are a lot of done-in-one comics, and even some stand alone graphic novels. Spider-Man: Hooky and Spider-Man: Parallel lives say. One shots include A-Babies VS X-Babies. the Avengers Origins one shots and the like. Lots of annuals too. And of course the Orson Scott Card Ender's Game comics in the "Acclaimed and Noteworthy" section. Yes, I know. But they're free.

On the one hand, I understand & appreciate why comixology has gone tits up over night. On the other hand, they knew this was coming, surely? — David Wynne (@davidwynne) March 11, 2013

Might I suggest Marvel and ComiXology institute a Done-In-One button, so everyone who wants all 700 comics can register that order for all of them, and get them delivered at a later date? Unless anyone else has any other solutions?

If everybody trying to access the @marvel comics on @comixology could just stop for 5 minutes, I'd be *really* greateful! :D

— Alex Young (@xanderten50) March 11, 2013

Actually that might work. Could everyone just… stop?

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