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Thanks for that info. Also tangentially Fantagraphics related is that the Dark Horse sale at Comixology has Usagi Yojimbo Saga trades (500+ pages) on sale for 2.99 which is the lowest ever. Buy all of them! Also, does volume 8 finish the Dark Horse run?
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# ? Apr 1, 2020 03:32 |
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# ? May 21, 2024 16:19 |
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hadji murad posted:Thanks for that info. UY Saga vol 8 goes through volume 31 of the trade paperbacks, so volumes 32 and 33 are not currently in a Saga version trade as far as I can tell.
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# ? Apr 1, 2020 13:55 |
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https://twitter.com/Newsarama/status/1245429223487148035
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# ? Apr 1, 2020 20:25 |
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There are 4 other marvel sales already running, including Doctor Aphra, so you can get them even cheaper, if you buy them now as 3 of them are ending today.
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# ? Apr 2, 2020 17:09 |
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Bunch of free Marvel trades on Comixology: AVENGERS VS. X-MEN CIVIL WAR AMAZING SPIDER-MAN: RED GOBLIN BLACK PANTHER BY TA-NEHISI COATES VOL. 1 THANOS WINS BY DONNY CATES X-MEN MILESTONES: DARK PHOENIX SAGA AVENGERS: KREE/SKRULL WAR AVENGERS BY JASON AARON VOL. 1: THE FINAL HOST FANTASTIC FOUR VOL. 1: FOUREVER BLACK WIDOW VOL. 1: S.H.I.E.L.D.'S MOST WANTED CAPTAIN AMERICA: WINTER SOLDIER ULTIMATE CAPTAIN MARVEL VOL. 1: HIGHER, FURTHER, FASTER, MORE (list pasted from link)
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# ? Apr 2, 2020 20:12 |
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Thanks a ton for this heads up. Some good poo poo in there.
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# ? Apr 3, 2020 08:48 |
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Dark Horse has a bunch of stuff half off right now, too.
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# ? Apr 3, 2020 17:37 |
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That B1G1 stacked with the New Mutants sale and I was able to get the first two New Mutants Epic Collections (about 40 issues total) for $8+tax. That'll do me well in quarantine.
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# ? Apr 5, 2020 00:31 |
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Baby Proof posted:Comixology links: You two are legends, thank you both!
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# ? Apr 5, 2020 05:29 |
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Last(second last?) day of the Marvel sale, they can be combined with sales on Avengers and Fantastic Four, both new and classic collections.
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# ? Apr 6, 2020 18:10 |
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https://www.humblebundle.com/books/creator-spotlight-on-jonathan-hickman-image-comics-books I recommend every single thing in this Bundle except for Transhuman (which sucked) and Dying & Dead (which I haven't read).
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# ? Apr 8, 2020 19:10 |
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Uthor posted:https://www.humblebundle.com/books/creator-spotlight-on-jonathan-hickman-image-comics-books This is my first PDF/CBR download since getting an iPad. What's the best way to read these comics? I don't care which format I read as long as it is 1) full screen, 2) rotates for widescreen pages, and 3) swipes between pages. I plan on using OneDrive/downloading the files to the device, so I don't need any library management.
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# ? Apr 8, 2020 21:54 |
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Uthor posted:This is my first PDF/CBR download since getting an iPad. What's the best way to read these comics? I don't care which format I read as long as it is 1) full screen, 2) rotates for widescreen pages, and 3) swipes between pages. I plan on using OneDrive/downloading the files to the device, so I don't need any library management. Chunky is the best one Ive found. Does all that plus integrates with onedrive/dropbox etc. Isnt free though.
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# ? Apr 8, 2020 22:32 |
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Sweet, looks great, seems to be free unless you need the pro features.
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# ? Apr 8, 2020 22:58 |
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Christ's sakes I just spent like $70 buying east of west and Manhattan projects during the comixology sales
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# ? Apr 9, 2020 00:21 |
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I own almost everything Hickman has written for Image in trades, so I've spent way more than that! Just love having the digital copies and the two things I hadn't gotten yet.
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# ? Apr 9, 2020 00:23 |
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I got everything but the last trade of EoW and this costs a little more than that will be, plus some new stuff I haven't read, so I'm not hugely upset, just mildly annoyed
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# ? Apr 9, 2020 00:31 |
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Waiting for the last trade of EoW is killing me.
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# ? Apr 9, 2020 00:44 |
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i really tried to get into pax romana and the nightly news but just couldnt the nightly news especially does not seem to be suited to reading digitally because all the various text boxes are tiny but that also seems like something that would be exacerbated when reading on smaller print pages, so i dunno how hickman got away with it back in the day
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# ? Apr 9, 2020 01:02 |
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No joke Nightly News is probably* my favorite Hickman thing and the reason I read most everything he puts out. But I read it in trade paperback, do can't comment on how it is digital. *HoX/PoX may have beaten it out.
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# ? Apr 9, 2020 01:29 |
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I hadn’t noticed Black Monday Murders is in it too. One of my favourite books from the past few years. Definitely worth a read.
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# ? Apr 9, 2020 07:25 |
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https://m.comixology.com/comics-sal...UkixsdXxR2aHTw0 Mignola sale. You can get the four main Hellboy omnibuses for $30.
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# ? Apr 11, 2020 21:32 |
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New Panel Syndicate release. Friday by Brubaker, Martin, and Vicente. http://panelsyndicate.com/comics/friday
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# ? Apr 15, 2020 20:08 |
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2000AD is doing a five-book $10 charity bundle2000AD posted:The titles included in this bundle are: https://www.drivethrucomics.com/product/309925/Doctors-Without-Borders-2000-AD-Collection-BUNDLE?src=salepage
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# ? Apr 22, 2020 18:38 |
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ANy recommended app for Humble bundle purchases? I seem to remember that the Humble Bundle app used to be easier to use.
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# ? Apr 26, 2020 19:27 |
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Rincewinds posted:ANy recommended app for Humble bundle purchases? I seem to remember that the Humble Bundle app used to be easier to use. I got this answer for reading on an iPad and am really happy with it (see a few posts above). Alan G posted:Chunky is the best one Ive found. Does all that plus integrates with onedrive/dropbox etc. Isnt free though. On Android, I always read the PDFs through one of the PDF apps (Google Docs, Adobe). Windows I use CDisplayEX for CBRs (pay attention to the installer cause it tries to add some AdWare). For storing and organizing, I just use Windows folders for each title and "title 001", "title 002", etc for the file names. I even do "title 001-006" for collections sometimes. I'm pretty basic with that. (I basically do the same thing for all my media) For getting stuff to my devices, OneDrive or Dropbox. Nothing fancy. Move the stuff I wanna read at the moment. Again, I'm a basic bitch.
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# ? Apr 26, 2020 19:36 |
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This has to be the most expensive DC sale in a long time. First issues of trades were 5.99 and now the same or 5.99. And when I first looked some singles were .99 but they moved them back to 1.99. Not to mention they have everything at 4.99 several time’s a year. I just don’t get it.
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# ? Apr 28, 2020 16:28 |
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You can get 193 issues of The Walking Dead for $18. https://www.humblebundle.com/books/walking-dead-image-comicsskybound-entertainment-books I grew bored of the series a few hardcovers in (was borrowing them from a friend), but am tempted anyway...
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# ? Apr 29, 2020 19:15 |
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Uthor posted:You can get 193 issues of The Walking Dead for $18. The first omnibus of 48 issues is one of my favorite things. It goes through collapse of the prison. Such a great run.
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# ? Apr 29, 2020 19:18 |
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Uthor posted:You can get 193 issues of The Walking Dead for $18. Looks like that's the complete series, including the Negan mini story they did with those Image+ comics a while ago. I already have it all in hard cover, but $18 for everything is drat tempting.
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# ? Apr 29, 2020 19:25 |
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Hoopla also has all of The Walking Dead for free if your library offers it.
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# ? Apr 29, 2020 20:39 |
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BPRD plague of frogs volume 1 too
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# ? May 5, 2020 12:58 |
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Uthor posted:On Android, I always read the PDFs through one of the PDF apps (Google Docs, Adobe). I spent a while taffing around with sync-to-device + local reading, but the problem I had was that comics are large enough, and my tablet has little enough storage, that I was constantly shuffling files around, which was annoying. Then I tried serving them over HTTP or SSHFS and using a reader that supported network fetches, but didn't like any of the reader software I tried. Eventually I installed ubooquity on my home server, and just started reading in the browser, both on my laptop and my tablet; it lacks some of the features cdisplay has, but has the virtue of working everywhere with no further loving around and keeping my read status in sync no matter what device I'm reading on. I also hacked together a userJS for it to make the UI a bit nicer -- show read/unread status of books without opening them, show status for directories, and slightly better controls in the actual book reading UI.
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# ? May 5, 2020 16:27 |
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ToxicFrog posted:I spent a while taffing around with sync-to-device + local reading, but the problem I had was that comics are large enough, and my tablet has little enough storage, that I was constantly shuffling files around, which was annoying. Then I tried serving them over HTTP or SSHFS and using a reader that supported network fetches, but didn't like any of the reader software I tried. The guy who made Chunky Comic Reader is working on a new reader that reads comics from the cloud (Google Drive/OneDrive/Ubooquity/etc...) by default and allows you to download if required. It's only in beta testing at the moment, but it looks good. It was sitting in development hell for a while, but he's recently returned to it so I'm hoping it will be released soon. Where do you place the userJS? Does it work with other themes?
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# ? May 5, 2020 20:37 |
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I use Kuboo to read comics from my desktop, it works pretty well. My dream app is something like Plex for comics, tracking what's read and unread, gathers metadata, etc. Since Humble Bundle does comics I've gotten a lot of miscellaneous junk that's a pain to organize.
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# ? May 5, 2020 22:23 |
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Dsmif posted:The guy who made Chunky Comic Reader is working on a new reader that reads comics from the cloud (Google Drive/OneDrive/Ubooquity/etc...) by default and allows you to download if required. It's only in beta testing at the moment, but it looks good. It was sitting in development hell for a while, but he's recently returned to it so I'm hoping it will be released soon. It should work with any theme, but I've only really tested it with the Grey theme since that's what I use. Themes are just images and CSS, though, and the script relies entirely on element classes/IDs/types and doesn't care about the styles or what images are in use. As for where you put it -- if your browser has userJS support (either directly, like older versions of Opera, or through an extension like Violentmonkey for Chrome or Firefox), just paste it into that and edit the header to replace @include https://my.ubooquity.server/comics/* with the URL of your server. If you use multiple ubooq servers add an @include line for each one of them. If you can't use userJS in the browser, you'll have to inject it server-side. I have a NixOS configuration for doing that with nginx here, and I can post the generated nginx.conf fragment if you need it. A quick rundown of the features: Reading - the progress bar is replaced with a slider you can use to jump around in the book - you can fast-exit the book by tapping right twice (at the end) or left twice (at the start) rather than opening the menu Bookshelf (all of these features require "save reading progress on server" turned on, they don't work with local storage) - The "read/download" interstitial is gone; click on a book cover to open it or the title to download it - Individual books will display a page count and 📕 icon if you haven't started reading them, a pages read/total count and 📖 icon if you have, and a check mark if they're finished - Directories you haven't viewed (since installing the script) will display ?📁 - Directories you have viewed will display a file count and 📁 if you haven't read any books in them, books read/total and 📂 if you've read some books in them, and a file count and check mark if you've read all the books in them. - "reload" and "mark all read" (or "mark all unread" if you've read everything in that directory) buttons added at the top Known Issues - no support for locally-stored read progress - directory progress just shows ? for unvisited directories even when it knows how many books are inside - directory progress doesn't distinguish between "you've not opened any of the books in this folder" and "you've opened some but haven't finished any" - if a directory has multiple pages it only shows you the status for the most recently viewed page rather than for the entire directory; this can be mitigated by setting "# of comics per bookshelf page" to a high number in the admin control panel - it takes a moment to load when viewing the bookshelf, since it needs to make 1-2 extra queries to the server for each book on the shelf Medullah posted:I use Kuboo to read comics from my desktop, it works pretty well. My dream app is something like Plex for comics, tracking what's read and unread, gathers metadata, etc. Since Humble Bundle does comics I've gotten a lot of miscellaneous junk that's a pain to organize. Yeah, Ubooq is the closest I've found for that but it doesn't do any sort of metadata fetching or help you organize your stuff, it just serves a directory tree. I've hacked together a bunch of shell scripts to help organize comics as I get them but it's not a great solution and very specific to my setup.
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# ? May 6, 2020 00:29 |
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The Kins posted:A ton of Dark Horse books and trades are free on Amazon and Comixology right now, with no announcement or indication of whether it's intentional or a glitch. Here's a list I swiped from BleedingCool/OzBargain and added an entry to, there might even be more out there. Dark Horse yesterday, Marvel today. More free trades on Amazon and Comixology right now: Secret Invasion Planet Hulk Black Panther by Ta-Nehisi Coates Vol. 2 Collection Fantastic Four Visionaries - John Byrne Vol. 1 Spider-Man Masterworks Vol. 1 Secret Wars Ms. Marvel Vol. 1: No Normal Captain America Vol. 1: Winter in America Venom by Donny Cates Vol. 1: Rex
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ToxicFrog posted:I've hacked together a bunch of shell scripts to help organize comics as I get them but it's not a great solution and very specific to my setup. I did the same! https://github.com/jmcguire/dotfiles/blob/master/bin/rename_comics.sh https://github.com/jmcguire/dotfiles/blob/master/bin/organize_comics.pl
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