{"id":91584,"date":"2026-10-09T18:09:10","date_gmt":"2026-10-09T10:09:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=91584"},"modified":"2026-10-09T18:09:10","modified_gmt":"2026-10-09T10:09:10","slug":"hands-on-with-the-new-marvel-comics-app","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=91584","title":{"rendered":"Hands-On With the New Marvel Comics App"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p data-cy=\"paragraph\" class=\"paragraph jsx-2269604527\">Earlier this week, Marvel announced that it was discontinuing the Marvel Unlimited app, only to have it replaced by the new Marvel Comics app, powered by Webtoon. At New York Comic Con I had the chance to go hands-on with the app, and I am struggling to see why it needs to exist. <\/p>\n<p data-cy=\"paragraph\" class=\"paragraph jsx-2269604527\">Just like Marvel Unlimited, the new Marvel Comics app will bring the entire Marvel and Star Wars comics libraries at both of its subscription tiers. On the surface, the big advantage Webtoon has over Unlimited is how quickly new comics will be available \u2014 with the more expensive \u2018Ultimate\u2019 tier getting new issues 30 days after print, rather than Unlimited\u2019s 90 day waiting period. <\/p>\n<p data-cy=\"paragraph\" class=\"paragraph jsx-2269604527\">Webtoon shared a rough roadmap for the app; it\u2019s looking to bring in Disney and Pixar comics, make it easier to create your own custom lists, and create different profiles for all the comics readers in your home \u2013 even kids. But, Webtoon failed to share dates for when any of these improvements are coming, so at least for now, it looks like the bulk of the changes are minor cosmetic ones.<\/p>\n<p><output class=\"box-wrapper jsx-2673806401\" data-cy=\"article-slideshow\"><span data-cy=\"slideshow-view-trigger\"><\/p>\n<div data-cy=\"slideshow-preview\" class=\"jsx-1711207865 slideshow-preview\">\n<h3 class=\"title5 jsx-62124236 jsx-1085005187\" data-cy=\"slideshow-preview-title\">Marvel Comics Powered by Webtoon \u2013 Hands-On Photos<\/h3>\n<div data-cy=\"slideshow-images-container\" class=\"jsx-1711207865 images-container\"><button type=\"button\" data-cy=\"hero-image\" aria-label=\"Open Slideshow\" class=\"jsx-1711207865 hero-image\"><img alt=\"\" aria-hidden=\"true\" decoding=\"async\" role=\"presentation\" class=\"progressive-image jsx-2277167929 image aspect-ratio aspect-ratio-16-9 jsx-2605834259 jsx-2338608387 hover-opacity\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP\/\/\/yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7\" data-cy=\"progressive-image\"\/><\/button><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/output><\/p>\n<p data-cy=\"paragraph\" class=\"paragraph jsx-2269604527\">Webtoon said that its mission in designing this app was to make it faster and easier to use. After all, Unlimited has been around since 2007, and the UI still kind of looks like it\u2019s stuck about a decade in the past. But rather than give Marvel Unlimited a facelift, the decision was made to create a brand new app. And, while the navigation does seem a bit more modernized, the app itself isn\u2019t noticeably faster than Unlimited was. Of course, this could come down to the tablets at the Webtoon booth and spotty convention Wi-Fi, but I couldn\u2019t really feel the difference. <\/p>\n<p data-cy=\"paragraph\" class=\"paragraph jsx-2269604527\">Once you click into an issue, the Marvel Comics app does get a bit more compelling, though. Before you start reading the issue, it\u2019ll bring you into a sort of overview page, where you\u2019ll be able to see the information about the selected issue, but you\u2019ll also be able to slide through other issues in the series on the top of the screen. There\u2019s also a section where you\u2019ll be able to see every reading guide that issue is a part of. <\/p>\n<p data-cy=\"paragraph\" class=\"paragraph jsx-2269604527\">When I\u2019m reading comics on the Unlimited app, I tend to make a beeline straight for reading guides, because I simply don\u2019t have the patience to read entire comics runs that sometimes have hundreds of issues. Marvel Unlimited\u2019s reading guides were excellent, and it seems like they\u2019ve carried over to the Webtoon app. But, again, I only had a few minutes with the app in a crowded booth at NYCC, so I didn\u2019t exactly have time to see if all of my favorite guides were intact. <\/p>\n<p><output class=\"box-wrapper jsx-2673806401\" data-cy=\"article-slideshow\"><span data-cy=\"slideshow-view-trigger\"><\/p>\n<div data-cy=\"slideshow-preview\" class=\"jsx-1711207865 slideshow-preview\">\n<h3 class=\"title5 jsx-62124236 jsx-1085005187\" data-cy=\"slideshow-preview-title\">Marvel Comics &#8220;Next Big Thing&#8221; Panel Art Gallery<\/h3>\n<div data-cy=\"slideshow-images-container\" class=\"jsx-1711207865 images-container\"><button type=\"button\" data-cy=\"hero-image\" aria-label=\"Open Slideshow\" class=\"jsx-1711207865 hero-image\"><img alt=\"Click through to see all of the comic book covers spotlighted at Marvel's Next Big Thing panel at SDCC 2026.\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"progressive-image jsx-2277167929 image aspect-ratio aspect-ratio-16-9 jsx-2605834259 jsx-2338608387 hover-opacity\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP\/\/\/yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7\" data-cy=\"progressive-image\"\/><\/button><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/output><\/p>\n<p data-cy=\"paragraph\" class=\"paragraph jsx-2269604527\">Once you get into an actual comic, though, not much has changed. You can still choose between reading the entire page or reading panel by panel. With the latter option, you can also choose to have it zoom back out when you\u2019re ready to move on to the next page, in order to appreciate all the art on the page, just the way you would in a regular comic. <\/p>\n<p data-cy=\"paragraph\" class=\"paragraph jsx-2269604527\">That\u2019s a great way to read digital comics, but Marvel Unlimited had the exact same options, and it wasn\u2019t hard to set up. As nice as the new UI is, that probably could have been implemented with a hefty update, rather than asking all of the Marvel Unlimited users to move over to a whole new app. The Marvel Comics app will let you move over your library and all of your reading progress, but I can only imagine that there are going to be people who stubbornly won\u2019t make the migration. I just hope it was worth that risk.<\/p>\n<p data-cy=\"paragraph\" class=\"paragraph jsx-2269604527\">The new Marvel Comics app launches November 16 with more than 35,000 digital comics. Marvel Unlimited will sunset as of December 7, 2026.<\/p>\n<p><output class=\"box-wrapper jsx-2673806401\" data-cy=\"author-sign-off\"><\/p>\n<section class=\"author-sign-off\" data-cy=\"author-sign-off\"><span class=\"stack jsx-59817748 jsx-1927875859\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"rounded jsx-444076027 jsx-1730475047 profile-thumb jsx-2141281959 aspect-ratio aspect-ratio-1-1\"><img alt=\"Jacqueline Thomas Avatar\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"progressive-image profile-thumb-img jsx-249361588 jsx-2338608387 expand\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/assets-prd.ignimgs.com\/avatars\/640f55c4f3866b000174a9c6\/RD5zbE5b_400x400-1679594933868.jpg?crop=1%3A1&amp;width=56&amp;format=jpg&amp;auto=webp&amp;quality=80 1x, https:\/\/assets-prd.ignimgs.com\/avatars\/640f55c4f3866b000174a9c6\/RD5zbE5b_400x400-1679594933868.jpg?crop=1%3A1&amp;width=56&amp;dpr=2&amp;format=jpg&amp;auto=webp&amp;quality=80 2x\" data-cy=\"progressive-image\"\/><\/div>\n<p><span class=\"stack jsx-2509706801 jsx-3630940851\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"interface jsx-1132626198 sign-off-text\">\n<p data-cy=\"paragraph\" class=\"paragraph jsx-2269604527\"><em>Jackie Thomas is the Senior Tech Editor at IGN and the PC components queen. She&#8217;s been covering gaming hardware for more than a decade for IGN, TechRadar, Gizmodo, PC Gamer and more. You can follow her\u00a0<\/em><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jackiecobra\" class=\"link jsx-1337145738 jsx-3925284146 underlined\" data-cy=\"styled-link\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer noopener noreferrer\"><em>@Jackiecobra<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/span><\/section>\n<p><\/output><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>\n<center><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ign.com\/articles\/after-going-hands-on-with-the-new-marvel-comics-app-i-still-dont-know-why-unlimited-had-to-die\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article At Source <\/a><br \/>\n<center\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Earlier this week, Marvel announced that it was discontinuing the Marvel Unlimited app, only to have it replaced by the new Marvel Comics app, powered&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":91585,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[524,436,1266,2933],"class_list":["post-91584","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tech-gadgets-reviews","tag-app","tag-comics","tag-handson","tag-marvel","wpcat-32-id"],"brizy_media":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91584","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=91584"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91584\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/91585"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=91584"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=91584"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=91584"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}