In an e mail despatched to customers, and a discover posted on the official web site, Darkish Horse Comics have introduced that they’re shutting down Darkish Horse Digital (DHD) as of at the moment, February 24, 2025, with comics not obtainable for buy on the platform. The e-mail and an FAQ elaborates the desktop model can be “ultimately retired,” however proceed to “be obtainable at the least by summer time, 2025,” whereas iOS readers must obtain any books they purchased from it, and its sister app Vegetation vs. Zombies Comics:
Gross sales by the DHD web site, and the Darkish Horse Comics and Vegetation vs. Zombies Comics apps for iOS, ended on that date. Customers can proceed to log in to the web site (digital.darkhorse.com) and skim the comics of their bookshelves.
Efficient March 31, 2025, the Darkish Horse Comics and Vegetation vs. Zombies Comics apps for iOS, will not be supported. Customers are inspired to obtain books of their bookshelves by March 30, 2025. The flexibility to obtain books to your gadget can’t be assured after that date. For entry by the web site, customers with out DHD accounts ought to create one and sync it to the app by March 30, 2025.
Whether or not you might be new to Darkish Horse Digital or have been with us for years, we admire your assist and remorse the inconvenience this can trigger. We all know you might have questions on this disappointing information. Extra info, together with our refund coverage and phrases of service, will be discovered on our FAQ web page.
Launched in 2011, Darkish Horse Digital was one of many oldest still-existing indie digital comics storefronts, even promoting digital copies of Dynamite’s titles at one level. The choice comes a 12 months after the Android model of DHD was shut down, and really shortly after the writer’s workers was hit by lay-offs.
By the way, the choice means digital copies of Darkish Horse’s comics based mostly on Neil Gaiman‘s works are not obtainable for buy, reinforcing the corporate’s determination to chop ties with him within the wake of the sexual assault allegations about him earlier this 12 months; nonetheless, it’s extremely unlikely that performed any function on this announcement to finish their platform.
