Dark Horse Digital Gives Away Fifty Free Comics, Adds Dynamite Entertainment

Dark Horse Comics earlier today announced that Dynamite Entertainment will join their digital marketplace, marking the second publisher to join the app, which is one of the only remaining alternatives to ComiXology's near-monopoly in the monthly digital comics marketplace. "We've been looking for ways to expand our digital presence, and this is our first step to building an even more robust library of digital comics," said Dark Horse President Mike Richardson. "We're proud to add Dark Horse Digital to our retail partners selling our digital titles to their audience. Our wide range of titles, from Vampirella to Battlestar Galactica, Grimm, The Shadow, Red Sonja, and many of our other Dynamite titles, are a perfect fit for the large audience who purchase Dark Horse titles. We're thrilled to work with Mike and his team at Dark Horse Digital on this new endeavor and excited about new opportunities to come," added Nick Barrucci, Dynamite Entertainment's CEO and publisher. They also borrowed a page from Marvel's playbook, offering fifty free first issues from many of its best-selling series will be available for the next forty-eight hours (promotion ends Friday, April 26, at 9 a.m. PST). Learning from Marvel's ComiXology-crashing mistake, though, they've banded the freebies together in a bundle, meaning that each transaction is just for one item and it's less likely to break the system. Free issues include Beasts of Burden, The Black Beetle: No Way Out, Criminal Macabre and more.