The Punisher Co-Creator Gerry Conway Says That ‘Amazon Wrecked ComiXology’

Briefly: If you’re a regular user of the iOS ComiXology app, you’ve likely already realized that the latest update stinks.

If the fact that you can no longer buy books within the app wasn’t bad enough, the realization that so much of the functionality that made the app great (and addictive) in the first place is now nowhere to be found will likely have you searching (and failing to find) a worthy alternative.

Gerry Conway, the comic book writer most famous for killing Gwen Stacy AND co-creating the Punisher, has written an excellent guest column on ComicBook.com about just how terrible Amazon’s move is, and what it means for the industry. Here’s a small excerpt:

And so, as we could have predicted, Amazon wrecks Comixology.

What has it been, less than a month since Jeff Bezos bought the most promising tool for renewing the mass distribution of comics in the digital era? I’ll give the man this: he’s moved faster to undermine an existing technology for the benefit of his own company than General Motors did when it sabotaged Los Angeles’s public transit Red Line for the benefit of the bus fleet they wanted to sell the City of Angels. Job well done, Jeff.

Be sure to head over to ComicBook.com for the full article. It’s well worth it.

Have you used the new app yet? Are you ready to give up digital comics? Sound out below.

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