@3: Sheddup! It's annoying when anyone gets that sort of "star" treatment. I'm glad it's a local, but it's still boring as hell. I like my techies to be geeks, not lady gaga.
Re: DC, who gives a damn? Their comics could be printed on silk with ink made from precious stones suspended in the finest champagne, and I still wouldn't read them. Even with their relaunch they're everything wrong and regressive in comics.
I would argue that it is the pane, not the page, that is the basic element of a comic you need to fit onto a screen, and comics are already constrained in many ways by the size of the paper-pages they are printed on. Yes, some comic elements do span panes or fill whole paper-pages, but in e-format that's what gestures are for to zoom and unzoom. The seven-inch format will constrain comics in new and different ways, but not necessarily in worse ways. And e-comics will also ultimately offer things that paper-comics cannot.
Also Bezos is a libertarian douchebag.
They wouldn't let anyone play with it for long because it wasn't complete and polished. It's not like they're going to do that forever.