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Tom King's Mister Miracle is on sale for $6 atm. https://www.comixology.com/DC-Memorial-Day-Sale/page/21512 I also recommend Warren Ellis' new Wild Storm series.
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What are some other good current DC series?
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May 21, 2019 21:45
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If you want to get current from that sale, the most important thing would be Justice League by Scott Snyder. There's a line-wide 'Year of the Villain' happening now that kicks off there. Also, it's bonkers and fun and looks great. You might want to go through Snyder's Metal and No Justice miniseries for some backstory. Those collections are on sale. Brian Michael Bendis's current Action Comics is good and is about to kick off his first DC event. His 'Superman' series isn't nearly as good. You can skip that. edit: \/ Backing up The Terrifics. Fantastic Four done in the DCU. I also like Christopher Priest's Deathstroke, but if you're looking at things to jump on, that's just a few months away from ending. If we're counting Vertigo, The Dreaming might be my favourite thing going at the moment. There's no trade yet, but singles are in that sale. Teenage Fansub fucked around with this message at 23:42 on May 21, 2019 |
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May 21, 2019 22:44
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I think The Terrifics is a very good book and a lot of fun, but I never see it talked about so it may just be me.
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winter soldier is better than I expected and quite cheap
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https://www.humblebundle.com/books/godzilla-idw-books?utm_source=tumblr&utm_medium=link&utm_campaign=godzilla_announce Godzilla comics! I haven't read most of them, but Half Century War is written and drawn by Stokoe and Godzilla in Hell has him fighting the seven deadly sins. Not sure if those two series alone are worth $15...
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May 29, 2019 19:41
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Amazon is running $0.99 for two months of kindle unlimited again. It's got a lot of the same books as comixology unlimited; good for reading through the first few years of Valiant.
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Comixology is running a buy one get one for free for Marvel comics, while there are 3 others Marvel sales ongoing, including one that ends today.
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Jun 17, 2019 18:55
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I just noticed that Amazon Prime's reading library includes a ton of comics for free. Most of the new Star Wars comics (which have been decent), and a lot of other Marvel and DC Volume 1's.
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Has anyone here ever run into the "Problem displaying page" error in the comixology app? For whatever reason it started happening to all of my downloads. I've tried reinstalling the app, clearing the app cache, reformatting my tablet, etc, but I still get that problem and support hasn't found an answer yet so I'm desperately asking here just in case someone knows a workaround.
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I don't know if it's the exactly same error, but I can't view high def files on my tablet. Don't remember if there's an error or just a blank page. Changing my settings to do low res files fixes that. I have always had that problem, so it's not something that just happened one day.
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Jun 27, 2019 21:07
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I had it download a non-HD comic and that didn't work either, so I turned HD back on, downloaded again, and that worked. I don't know why that fixed it (or maybe it was just a big coincidence??) but I'm glad it did.
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Jun 27, 2019 23:08
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Sandman sale. https://www.comixology.com/comics-sale?list_id=30686 Check out the new Dreaming series. It's one of the best comics going right now.
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Is there a substantive difference between the anniversary Sandman tpbs in that sale and other ones (which I now can’t find on comiXology)? I have the first 4 of the old ones, thinking about getting the rest, as I have now overcome my dislike of the artwork in the first volume and am planning on reading the full series.
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They redid some of the coloring for the absolute edition, but I don't know if that made it into later TPB printings.
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Going by the preview pages, the recolouring is still there in those new trades AND has made it into the digital singles.
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lifg posted:They redid some of the coloring for the absolute edition, but I don't know if that made it into later TPB printings. The TPBs after the Absolutes have the new coloring. Not sure if the anniversary issues have anything besides the cover treatment.
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What are peoples thoughts on digital trades vs digital singles. My library is a mis-match of what ever is available or was on sale.
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I personally like the singles, but I can't articulate why. I think because I get a sense of progress going through the issues that mimics seeing how many pages you've read of a book.
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My thought is that they are both digital
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I like singles cause they take up less room if you DL them one at a time. My tablet's only 8GB, so 1GB+ big collections can be a problem.
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I prefer trades so I don't have to wade through as much stuff when I'm trying to look through any of my poorly organised digital libraries but that preference goes straight out the window when I see something like individual issues going for $2.99 each with a four issue trade clocking in at $17.99. I'll end up going with whatever's cheap and getting a mishmash.
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Mode 7 posted:I prefer trades so I don't have to wade through as much stuff when I'm trying to look through any of my poorly organised digital libraries but that preference goes straight out the window when I see something like individual issues going for $2.99 each with a four issue trade clocking in at $17.99. I'll end up going with whatever's cheap and getting a mishmash. Uthor posted:I personally like the singles, but I can't articulate why. I think because I get a sense of progress going through the issues that mimics seeing how many pages you've read of a book. Teenage Fansub posted:I like singles cause they take up less room if you DL them one at a time. My tablet's only 8GB, so 1GB+ big collections can be a problem. Yeah, I'm in two minds myself, I prefer the single issues most of the times, but the sales seem to be more regular for trades and with higher reductions. I try to keep talking myself out of re-buying books that I already have in one format in another so my library matches.
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Dsmif posted:a mis-match of what ever is on sale. This is the end-all, be-all of my library, with a slight tilt towards collections since they tend to be cheaper if you wait for the right sales.
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Has anyone every asked Comixology to correct sorting issues? I've had some success in the past with smaller publishers, but I've just asked them to look into the sorting of some DC titles and from the sounds of it they have to discuss with DC so may not be corrected.
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What app would people recommend for reading comics on a tablet? It's running android, but I can reflash it with linux if needed. I'm looking for the ability to load comics from a network drive and download/pin them locally for offline reading. Perfect Viewer does the former just fine, but not the latter -- it has a "download" command, but that only works on individual files and just dumps them all into your Downloads directory. My backup plan is to keep using PV + some kind of bullshit with syncthing to automatically sync some specific comic folders to the device, but that's a pain because it means I need to go to the server and change the syncthing configuration every time I want to pin a different set of comics, rather than just selecting them in the viewer.
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The current DC 60% off sale on Comixology stacking with the Sandman sale means you can buy issues of The Dreaming for less than 30 pence, which is cool
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Reminder to everyone to avoid Comixology deals today, since Amazon owns it now. Amazon workers are striking to protest the lovely working conditions, and we shouldn't cross the line.
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ToxicFrog posted:What app would people recommend for reading comics on a tablet? It's running android, but I can reflash it with linux if needed. I'm looking for the ability to load comics from a network drive and download/pin them locally for offline reading. You can sync playlists of comics with Comicrack. It's got a ton of functionality but I always end up just using Perfect Viewer anyway
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Medullah posted:You can sync playlists of comics with Comicrack. It's got a ton of functionality but I always end up just using Perfect Viewer anyway I looked at ComicRack, but it looks like it requires a server and the server only runs on windows, so that's useless to me -- I'm not running upstairs to wake up the gaming desktop every time I want to read a comic.
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Can't you just run the windows program in wine or something
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site posted:Can't you just run the windows program in wine or something I guess I could set up xvfb on the server and run comicrack inside wine inside xvfb or something, but at that point just using syncthing instead starts to look more appealing.
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Does your tablet let you use SD cards?
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ToxicFrog posted:What app would people recommend for reading comics on a tablet? It's running android, but I can reflash it with linux if needed. I'm looking for the ability to load comics from a network drive and download/pin them locally for offline reading. Ubooquity Server (https://vaemendis.net/ubooquity/) on your computer and Kuboo (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.sethchhim.kuboo) on Android. I use this for with Chunky on my iPad and it's amazing.
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ToxicFrog posted:What app would people recommend for reading comics on a tablet? It's running android, but I can reflash it with linux if needed. I'm looking for the ability to load comics from a network drive and download/pin them locally for offline reading. ComiCat will apparently let you do a cloud sync, with like Google cloud, Dropbox, etc, though I'm not sure if it'll do what you're wanting.
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Zachack posted:Does your tablet let you use SD cards? That would be far too easy. It has generous internal storage, but not generous enough. It's honestly kind of poo poo except that it has a very nice screen, and getting a less poo poo tablet with an equivalent-or-better screen would be pretty expensive. ZRM posted:ComiCat will apparently let you do a cloud sync, with like Google cloud, Dropbox, etc, though I'm not sure if it'll do what you're wanting. It won't; there's lots of clients that have a "download your comics from the cloud!" feature, but that would require me to upload them to the cloud first. Dsmif posted:Ubooquity Server (https://vaemendis.net/ubooquity/) on your computer and Kuboo (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.sethchhim.kuboo) on Android. I use this for with Chunky on my iPad and it's amazing. That, on the other hand, looks like it might be exactly what I'm looking for. Thanks! E: No it's not, in fact it has exactly the same problems as Perfect Viewer -- you can only select individual files for download, not entire folders, and if it loses its net connection it also loses all library organization and just kicks you over to the "Downloads" tab, which is a reverse-chronological list of everything it's ever downloaded with no further categorization. It also doesn't support tap-to-turn-page. Ubooquity itself was pleasantly easy to set up and I'll probably keep using it, at least. ToxicFrog fucked around with this message at 14:42 on Jul 17, 2019 |
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I'm not certain if there is an android build but comicglass on ios let's you download folders and saves them as folders... I think. I have it pull from my network hdd. No fancy tagging or much tracking, though. It basically acts like a file system on a pc. It definitely lets you save downloaded files in folders and puts them there while downloading.
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Zachack posted:I'm not certain if there is an android build but comicglass on ios let's you download folders and saves them as folders... I think. I have it pull from my network hdd. No fancy tagging or much tracking, though. It basically acts like a file system on a pc. Yeah, I don't care about tagging and can live without read/unread tracking, the filesystem layout is my metadata. Looks like comicglass is iOS only, though.
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Dsmif posted:Ubooquity Server (https://vaemendis.net/ubooquity/) on your computer and Kuboo (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.sethchhim.kuboo) on Android. I use this for with Chunky on my iPad and it's amazing. Just wanted to say thanks! I've been looking for this exact functionality for literally years (I described it as "Plex for comics". I tried Oobiquity a few years ago and it was nice, but a bit ugly.
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Medullah posted:Just wanted to say thanks! I've been looking for this exact functionality for literally years (I described it as "Plex for comics". I tried Oobiquity a few years ago and it was nice, but a bit ugly. Glad to be of help. I was a bit turned off by the look of ubooquity at first, but you can theme it, including adding folder covers.
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