Marvel Comics just announced that they're starting to sell comics over the iPhone for as low as 99¢ each. Frustratingly, they're only issuing back issues of comics. I don't understand why they wouldn't make their comics available in multiple formats on the day of publication. I suppose they're worried about cannibalizing their own business, but the iPhone is a much larger market than just people who go into comic book stores—in theory, they could expand their readership by exponential levels, and it would cut down on digital comic piracy (which is a much larger problem than prose book piracy at the moment). It's easier to pay a buck than go through the hassle of torrenting a comic.

In other comics news, Salman Rushdie is thinking about writing a comic book.