For years, Marvel Unlimited was borderline-unusable and reprints were expensive and hard to come by. But for a long time, pirating comics was the best and sometimes only way to access many older comics. Because I was a destitute grad student and the first iteration of Marvel Unlimited was terrible, I also pirated comics.Īs someone who deeply loves comics and very much wants to give money to the awesome people who make them, I have always felt guilty about piracy.

And indulge I did, starting a pull list at my favorite store, checking out every superhero comics collection the library had to offer, and subscribing to the first iteration of Marvel Unlimited. It wasn’t until the early 2000s, amid the birth of digital comics and a move to a city with multiple comic book stores, that I started to properly indulge my love of cape comics. The proprietor did his best but was clearly out of his depth offering reading recommendations to a 13-year-old girl accompanied by her mother, who wanted Superman comics with romance-y Lois and Clark content but was far too shy to say that. Growing up in rural Ontario in the ’90s, there was only one comic book store within an hour’s drive, and the few times I visited it, the experience wasn’t encouraging. Or maybe it’s more accurate to say I badly wanted to love them.

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