I’m not a big Marvel comics fan, though I’ll read them if they’re around (and I quite like Spider-Man), but I do like DC and Vertigo. So reasons to acquire an iPad just increased. See Newsarama.com : DC Does DIGITAL: iPhone, iPad App Premieres on iTunes

And, even with exchange rates, the comics will cost about a third to a half less than their paper equivalents, and as publishers put their back catalogues online we should be able to access issues etc. that never made it to NZ. Not the same as having the paper version, but it’d help some of my research and teaching (really!)