Sunday
Jun132010
ipad and comics
Sun, June 13, 2010 at 4:34 PM
about a year ago i had a marvel subscription to check out what the big deal was for digital comics. the reader was ok, but it seemed to me that some panels were being missed. not a big deal because you could work around it.
what annoyed me the most was the lack of comic availability. yeah it's great to read iron man #146 and hulk #382. but #1 of anything forget it... just today i see they actually had hulk #1 for free. which is nice kind of offsets the 36 issues total they had for the hulk character. that's 36 out of 300+ issues.
the marvel app for the ipad is great, and the comics are a great price, but i'll have to be patient if i want to pick up an entire series that's anything over 10 issues.
just the other day the comicbooklover app for the ipad was just updated. it's a free app and only in version .04 alpha (or something like that) but i would have no problem paying $9.99 for the app right now. they've improved the transfer to the ipad process and the reading experience. i have a ton of digital comics (my hard copies are safely stored away).
there are other ipad comic apps, but support for the cbr/cbz is non-existent.
what annoyed me the most was the lack of comic availability. yeah it's great to read iron man #146 and hulk #382. but #1 of anything forget it... just today i see they actually had hulk #1 for free. which is nice kind of offsets the 36 issues total they had for the hulk character. that's 36 out of 300+ issues.
the marvel app for the ipad is great, and the comics are a great price, but i'll have to be patient if i want to pick up an entire series that's anything over 10 issues.
just the other day the comicbooklover app for the ipad was just updated. it's a free app and only in version .04 alpha (or something like that) but i would have no problem paying $9.99 for the app right now. they've improved the transfer to the ipad process and the reading experience. i have a ton of digital comics (my hard copies are safely stored away).
there are other ipad comic apps, but support for the cbr/cbz is non-existent.
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