Build an independent companion that creates issue-level reading paths from a reader's favorite characters, films, eras, completed stories, and available subscriptions. Start with editor-built paths and a paid personalized reading-plan service, then productize list creation, progress tracking, community publishing, and links that open available issues in supported catalogs.

Low-cost digital subscriptions have removed the access barrier while making discovery and sequencing more difficult. The same navigation and guidance complaints appear across recent reviews and in newcomer discussions, including one review noting that the problem persisted for years.