I loathe reading digital comics but, for me, it's the size because I want to view the page layout in the way that the artist intended (all at once), not scrolling across a page awkwardly because I had to zoom in when the image was too small on the screen.

Also the low cost required to read decades worth of otherwise valuable back issues and the ease of storage.

But I disagree about the vibrant colors. I really cannot stand seeing old comics pencilled for the four color process and pulp paper recolored digitally. It often feels jarring to me and doesn't suit the atmosphere and tone of the art. The best pencilers of the pre-gloss comics knew their medium and how to draw for it, and their colorists usually gave each story a lot more attention than some lackey using Photoshop whose going through a hundred issue stretch of books and recoloring each for their digital editions with as much speed as possible. For both of these reasons, pulling the art out of the intended context is almost a sort of violation from my standpoint. Given the choice, I almost always prefer to read those books on the original rough floppy pages.

One major perk of digital, compared to older comics, is that you can read them in a size comparable to how the pages were originally produced (particularly on a laptop or larger ipad). I find that with certain older comics, my 38 year old eyes sometimes struggle with comics that my 13 year old self had no trouble reading.

I always read my Digital Comics on a 22 inch Apple PC and it's a godsend because the text in the digital comics can be adjusted for easy reading. I had that PC for 4 years now and it's a blessing to have. Great Resolution too.

This is a different topic (but digital related) but what do you guys think of the fact that digital sales dropped 10% in 2015?   Interestingly, e-books dropped by a similar amount.  For comics, I could guess that people like subscription services like Marvel Unlimited better, and the analysts suggested Humble Bundle getting into more comics made an impact, but the fact that e-books shared the drop make me think perhaps there's something else going on there.

But what?   I can't imagine too many young readers deciding they like print better (my kids do, but I have something to do with that).  I know for comics alot of people have suggested (when growth levelled off) that people who like digital now have re-bought all they need to, and that was driving the growth.   Could that be it?   Or just that people like trades better/find them easier to buy?

I'm kinda happy (as I kinda hate digital), but I'm also mystified.

I also find it interesting that the total digital 'pie' is about 9% of sales, which people make a big thing about when trying to defend their favorite low-selling titles, when newsstand sales (which everyone discards) are still about 2%.. that's not THAT big a difference, considering the huge difference in perception.

here's the article and stats:

icv2.com/articles/markets/view/34930/comic-graphic-novel-sales-top-1-billion