Marvel Comics or The New Yorker: Choose Your Binge-Reading Bargain
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If you're looking to escape summer's swelter by binge-reading about alternate universes, bizarre worlds, and fascinating people you've never heard about and didn't think could exist in real life, man, are you in luck!
Not one but two binge-reading bonanzas have recently made their debut. First, The New Yorker announced that it is opening the entirety of its archives to all, free of charge, for the entire summer, to celebrate the makeover of its website. (Normally, much of the archive is accessible only for paid subscribers.)
Then, in a deal coinciding with this week's Comic-Con International in San Diego, Marvel Comics is offering a special "Marvel Unlimited" package, with one month's access to more than 15,000 digital comics for just 99¢. (New subscribers must use the promo code SDCC14 when signing up for the service, which usually runs $9.99 per month or $69 per year.)
What might you read? Wired suggests that Marvel subscribers should check out some of the Infinite Comics that have been specially designed for the digital experience, such as the six-issue Captain America: The Winter Soldier (inspiration for the recent film). Meanwhile, BuzzFeed, Vox, Digg, and Slate are among the many publications that have weighed in with recommendations for New Yorker reading while the archive door is wide open.
The suggested free New Yorker readings from Business Insider are heavy on gripping but grisly tales of war, genocide, and evil, such as Seymour Hersh's "Torture at Abu Ghraib" and Hannah Arendt's "Eichmann in Jerusalem," the latter about the trial of the infamous Nazi officer Adolph Eichmann. After reading some of these stories, it might be time to turn one's attention back over to Captain America.