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"Thrillbent has announced an online store with DRM-free digital comics. The platform will make its first wave of titles free for download without the controversial digital rights management controls.   Mark Waid and Peter Krause&amp;#039;s Insufferable will be available on a &amp;#039;pay what you will&amp;#039; basis similar to Brian K Vaughan and Marcos Martin&amp;#039;s The Private Eye. &amp;quot;Digital comics distributors like comiXology and iVerse continue to be great and valuable partners to us and their cloud-based platforms are a great option for many comics fans,&amp;quot; said Thrillbent co-founder Waid. &amp;quot;But we hear constantly from readers who prefer to own and collect the comics and files they buy, and we&amp;#039;re happy to oblige.&amp;quot; Downloads of Pax Arena and The Walking Pandas/The Panda Show will include both English and French language versions.   Collections of Arcanum, The Damnation of Charlie Wormwood, Pax Arena, The Eighth Seal, Luther, Moth City and Aw Yeah Comics! will also be available from today (July 30). The PDFs will include &amp;quot;exclusive web-linked bonus content designed specifically for each comic, including clickable footnotes, behind-the-scenes glimpses and more&amp;quot;. Thrillbent follows in the footsteps of Image Comics, which unveiled its own DRM-free downloads earlier this month. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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