Marvel Unlimited — the corporate’s all-you-can-read subscription comics service — is getting overhauled as we speak with a brand new brand, an up to date app, a extra streamlined design, improved search, and extra.

And as a part of the relaunch, Marvel can also be asserting an addition to the service: “Infinity Comics,” a brand new line of unique comics which were particularly designed for the vertical kind issue of a contemporary smartphone, with scrolling panels that fill the whole width of a telephone or pill display.

Marvel is investing massive on Infinity Comics, too. It’ll launch with 27 comics obtainable as we speak, with plans for over 100 by the top of the 12 months. Infinity Comics will likely be unique to Marvel Unlimited subscribers, however they’ll be totally in-universe (which means that anybody who desires to maintain up on the complete adventures of Marvel’s superheroes will wish to be certain to examine them out).

There are some massive names hooked up to the mission, together with the Jonathan Hickman-led X-Men Unlimited and Skottie Young’s Giant-Size Little Marvels. Infinity Comics may even function new Captain America, Black Widow, Amazing Fantasy, Deadpool, Shang-Chi, and Venom / Carnage comics, with plans to roll out new points on a weekly foundation. For now, Infinity Comics are solely obtainable on the Marvel Unlimited apps on iOS and Android, though the corporate plans so as to add an online reader for subscribers sooner or later, too.

While Infinity Comics are the most important change, Marvel Unlimited can also be getting a contemporary design to go together with it. The design is an nearly Netflix-style look that contains a massive marquee for main occasions and tie-ins, scrolling carousels of beneficial content material, storylines, characters, and creators, and new studying guides for guiding newcomers to comics or for following a crossover occasion. The Marvel Insider loyalty program can also be now built-in into the app, the place members can earn factors for beginning (and ending) comics.

The relaunched app additionally goals to make searching and following comics and creators simpler and extra fulfilling. Starting as we speak, subscribers will be capable of domestically obtain an infinite variety of comics, as an alternative of the earlier restrict of simply 12 points. Users may even be capable of save a complete collection or run of points to their libraries with one faucet, as an alternative of getting to laboriously save particular person points.

Another main addition is the power to observe particular comics, creators, or characters. If you’re a fan of Al Ewing’s Immortal Hulk line, for instance, you’ll be capable of observe Ewing and get notified every time he has new books out on the app. Or if you wish to sustain with each Spider-Man comedian, you’ll be capable of observe the character and simply discover every time there’s a brand new e-book obtainable.

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As of as we speak, Marvel Unlimited options over 29,000 comics and prices $9.99 a month or $69 a 12 months, which makes it a fairly whole lot for Marvel followers seeking to learn completely each Marvel comedian. That mentioned, regardless of the relaunch, Marvel continues to be maintaining the service’s largest caveat: it operates on a three-month delay from when comics are first printed in print and digital to after they’re obtainable for subscribers within the app.

In addition to the redesign, Marvel Unlimited is together with a brand new subscription tier. The “annual plus” subscription prices $99 12 months and has a number of further perks, together with membership kits, guarantees of in-person occasion invitations, and a 10-percent low cost code at Disney’s on-line store.