The Source blog for DC Comics has updated for the latest Flashpoint Friday and while they’re touting it as a positive, it’s anything but. With their big new sprawling event for 2011 getting underway way soon with Flashpoint, the company has made notice that all books involved in the series, the core sreies itself, all the miniseries and the Flashpoint issues of Booster Gold will be released via the digital comiXology platform. This is a big positive in that the big event series will be offered in digital form. The problem is that the books will be delayed by four weeks plus a few days as well as they’re going to be offered “four weeks after the print issue comes out. And they’ll be released on Fridays to coincide with THE SOURCE’s Flashpoint Friday.”
So digital comics fans are being treated as second class fans – again. We’ll get to pay full price likely (it’s unlikely these books, even delayed a month, would get the $1.99 price point) and have to wait longer to experience it. In the digital world where things move even faster no less, digital fans will be behind the print world.
“That’s every issue of FLASHPOINT, including all the miniseries, as well, as the FLASHPOINT issues of BOOSTER GOLD. So, for example, the print edition of FLASHPOINT #1 comes out in print on May 11, and will be released digitally on June 10.”
Unsurprisingly, DC Comics does not have the comments section for this particular entry open so fans cannot sound off directly on the blog about it.