Some X-Men comics Now, there’s a QR code on the back of the book that hides a “bonus page.” These new hidden pages have sparked a massive debate among comic readers and fans about what counts as bonus content and comic preservation.
If you check online now, you’ll find suggestions that Marvel will lock the last pages of all future comics behind a QR code. This is a pretty crazy claim! like this, some of these tweets has gone semi-viral among comics fans, leading many to believe that this is indeed the case. However, that’s not the whole story, even if the truth remains a controversial mess that leads to There is a lot of debate on the Internet.
earlier this month, Marvel starts doing something different with something new about it X-MenRelated comics. On the last day of July 10th X-Men #1 Written by Jed MacKay and Ryan Stegman, readers see a large QR code on the last page. If you scan this code, you’ll unlock a bonus comic page that teases future events or villains. (in the case of X-Men #1 It reveals more about a new set of bad guys introduced in the comics. X-Men comics.
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Tom Brevoort, vice president and executive editor of Marvel Comics, said that this is not because the comic company cut content from the book, but added some extra content while avoiding spoilers. As he explains in his personal substack.
[The QR code page] It started as a bonus page, an extra page – we didn’t skimp on the content X-Men #1 to do that,” Brevoort said. “It gives us a page whose content we can hide until launch date, thus avoiding any early spoilers.”
The editor also confirmed that Marvel will also create a similar QR code reward page in the future. X-Men Comic launch similar to “‘future’ page in modern Claremont/Lee issue 1” X-Men #1.
So this is not a case Marvel cuts last page from book And hide it behind the QR code——As comic book writers attest– Instead, it’s a bonus page or something additional.
However, some fans disagree. They considered these bonus pages important to the overall story, so these “extra content” were really the final pages of the comic book. this doesn’t help When the comic was first sold, one of the QR code pages was unavailable. I also understand that when people pay for an actual physical comic book to add to their collection, they don’t want to read comic pages on their little phone screens. This is weird and not ideal.
There is good news. According to Brevoort, when the issues are put together for later release (as Marvel always does with comics), the bonus page will be included rather than hidden behind a QR code.
This means that decades from now, people won’t have to count on the URL still being valid to see another page from a physical comic book. Marvel editors even suggested If they reprinted the comic with the QR code page, they might have included that bonus page in the comic because then the spoilers wouldn’t matter anymore.
This sounds happy, and should mean comics preservationists don’t have to print digital pages from websites to preserve history.
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