Now for something completely different. Or, well, a little different. It's still about comic books, don't you worry. Only this time it isn't a new series that good announced at San Diego, or a property that was making the leap into sequential art - nope, this time it was the big reveal of something that could change the entire comics industry for the better, and it's all about an app. Specifically Comixology, the premiere online store and platform for buying digital comics for you computer, phone and tablet. The company have been going through some growing pains as of late, thanks to being bought out by Amazon in April of this year, which removed the option of purchasing comics on Apple devices. Which perhaps made it all surprising when Comixology took to Comic-Con to tell the world that they'd be taking the progressive step of offering non-DRM downloads of comic books in the future, so long as publishers were cool with that. DRM stands for Digital Rights Management, and is the much-derided encoding that stops you from sharing eBooks, games, audio and video files with your mates. In most cases you buy, say, a game and download it. You can't then stick it on a memory stick and lend it to a mate - it's tied to your computer, and your computer alone. A state of play that suggests you don't actually own the products you buy. You just sort of rent them, and are totally under the whim of whoever rented it to you, who could rescind your right to the products whenever they wanted. The DRM debate is still raging in everything from publishers of books to software so fo Comixology to take this step is a big deal, allowing you to own comic book files that you can do basically anything with. Well, only ones put out by Image Comics, Dynamite Entertainment, Zenescope Entertainment, MonkeyBrain Comics, Thrillbent, and Top Shelf Productions so far. Step in the right direction, though!