It’s hard now to evoke what a sea change it was, June 23, 2010. Dual articles by Laura Hudson on ComicsAlliance led with “The wait is over” and “finally” at DC’s announcement that they would begin to distribute digital comics, with “day and date” release of their newest issues. My own reaction piece called it “a date like June 1938 when Superman first appeared — a date after which comics were never the same again.” (Don’t laugh — a bunch of you were equally breathless!)

Some of my concerns at the time, if not original, were prescient; I wondered aloud what might happen if Comixology went out of business? Other qualms have long since been resolved — the then-small backlist has ballooned to thousands of comics; digital trades, not included in the June announcement, had arrived by that October. Nowadays, “day and date” collections are available just the same as their single issue counterparts.

Mostly.