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Reading Justice League: Generation Lost on an iPod

I'm the target audience for Justice League: Generation Lost on the iPod. I like the JLI characters, and I particularly enjoy Booster Gold and Blue Beetle. There's something about genuinely competent heroes who know at heart that they'll never fully be respected for their work, but do it anyway and have a good time doing it. I also really enjoy Jaime Reyes as the Blue Beetle - when he isn't being taken for a spin by writers who don't get him and therefore write him as a clueless Captain Ethnic, that is. (Ay caramba indeed.) I like Giffen's work and I even think Judd Winick's writing is pretty keen when his work doesn't devolve into PSAs and soap opera. So a giant epic JLI + Jaime Reyes vs. Max Lord fight to the finish? Sign me up. I also think the option of buying comics in a digital format is an inherently good idea. Convenient and you aren't buried under a mountain of paper!

I was psyched.

And yet, and yet, somehow even the awesome of the story couldn't distract me from the vaguely unsatisfactory reading experience. The words "little and twiddly" come to mind. People who see me squinting at my iPod and turning it this way and that probably thought I was crazy or looking at particularly confusing tentacle hentai.

Frankly, I wish just reading it on your computer screen instead of your approved Apple device was an option. Probably it will be, eventually, but I want it now. I like being able to read comics digitally on my full-sized monitor without having to buy a new device. I admit it, I'm spoiled by those Marvel comic archive dvds - forty years of backissues for fifty dollars and you can read it on any computer you like. That's what I crave. If DC sold those, I'd be the the first in line.

And yet, and yet. When I found I had forgotten to pick up Time Masters #1 at the comic shop, I searched my comics app, found it wasn't there and got annoyed. I guess the quick fix really is addictive.

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FYI: You should be able to read anything you buy with the DC app at comixology.com. That's how I've been reading mine.

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