In December 2013 it was announced that eBay was teaming up with comiXology to launch a digital comic book store. There was to be a test launch of the service in Europe at some point in this year, as well as eBay moving into selling other goods like music and movies.

I honestly had forgotten about the service completely, and didn’t give it much of a thought since that launch until I noticed today someone clicked to check it out. I decided to follow-up, not having a clue what the link was for, and came to a screen that the service was down/on hold, or in their own words, “out saving the world.”

I decided to dig a bit, and it looks like the service has been down since about April 2014, which is around the same time period it was announced that Amazon was purchasing comiXology. For all the reporting on that purchase, it looks like it’s impact on the eBay/comiXology deal was overlooked….. doh! I guess we’ll see if it returns again in some updated form.