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Are the Android Apps for reading CBZs in the OP up-to-date or are there other recommendations? As to Windows readers, I'd definitely recommend taking CdisplayEX out of the list. The creator died like a decade ago and the forks that have been coming out ever since are malware-laden. I've been using YACReader for years on windows and it's the best approximation of OG CDisplay, and I think it has a Chocolatey package if you are into that. https://www.yacreader.com/
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Toshimo posted:Are the Android Apps for reading CBZs in the OP up-to-date or are there other recommendations? I have not kept that up to date nor have I been using Android for CBZs. I hope someone has a recommendation for you. I will update the Windows list. Yeah, I still use CDisplay, but I also had to deal with some crap that it installed a few years ago. I just don't deal with their updates. Still, not worth leaving it there.
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Uthor posted:I have not kept that up to date nor have I been using Android for CBZs. I hope someone has a recommendation for you. This was posted a few months ago: Heavy Metal posted:A couple more tidbits, you can still get a download of a cbz or pdf for a lot of Image comics, via Google play books. On a store page for a book where you click About Book, if it says "this content is DRM free" it allows a download. That's the only way I buy digital comics, as well as 2000AD's online shop which has downloads etc. Anyway, updated the list. It's definitely not something I keep on top of, please let me know if there are recommendations to add or remove.
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Comixology having a dc sale, cheaper than usual, if there is anything one is willing to use Comixology to pick up. https://www.amazon.com/kindle-dbs/comics-store/sales/?ref_=sv_kstore_cmx_2&_encoding=UTF8&slot=desktop-atf-3
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Anyone know if there’s a way to lock stuff out ComiXology? I put it on my kid’s iPad and downloaded a bunch of my old stuff I thought he’d like, but there’s a good amount of R rated stuff in there, can I hide that or set it to not download without a password or something?
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Archiving's gone unfortunately (what happens to stuff you archived?  )
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Opopanax posted:Anyone know if there’s a way to lock stuff out ComiXology? I put it on my kid’s iPad and downloaded a bunch of my old stuff I thought he’d like, but there’s a good amount of R rated stuff in there, can I hide that or set it to not download without a password or something? I just opened up comiXology on my Android phone and got a notification that one can hide individual issues or titles. They're not locked out, but you don't display them.
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Rincewinds posted:Comixology having a dc sale, cheaper than usual, if there is anything one is willing to use Comixology to pick up. Superman: Red Son for $2? Yes please
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Maybe a stupid question but has DC universe gotten any better in the last year or more? I subbed way back when it had movies on it but I was always more interested in the comics side. I'd specifically be interested in the navigation and discovery interfaces. I've had a hankering to read some Neal Adams Batman recently. Marvel Unlimited has kept me a year subscriber for the past few years because their interface is actually pretty decent I find.
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I'm not super experienced with either system, but I've been using them for a book club (ie, being given a list to read). I find it just fine to use, pretty much similar to Marvel Unlimited. Filtering my library seems a little better and I like being able to make my own lists. Doing a search for specific issues is a bit of a pain, I do that on my PC instead of my tablet when I can. I'd guess a big problem with that is looking for a specific, say, Action Comics issue and having to dig through 1,000 issues. One thing that annoys me is it freaking the gently caress out when I'm off network. Doesn't show covers properly, gives an annoying pop-up that I can't always dismiss, but reads just fine once I'm in a book. I mostly use it on an iPad. One thing we've run into is various issues missing. Like, we read Armageddon 2001 and half of the annuals weren't on there. I'm talking about Superman, Batman, Justice League, Action Comics. We read the Eclipso run and the two Eclipso books that bookended it weren't on there. Everything featuring Hawkman was on there, though! Uthor fucked around with this message at 18:50 on Jan 5, 2023 |
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I just got DC Infinite and it's definitely better than the Marvel Unlimited app on Android tablets at least.
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Skwirl posted:I just got DC Infinite and it's definitely better than the Marvel Unlimited app on Android tablets at least. Interesting, how so?
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Neither is great but DCI is definitely easier to use. Marvel did a big update a year or so back that really screwed up their UI
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Still frustrating on both if you want to read an event or won't do chronological reading order, it will just stick to whatever your reading
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DC Universe Infinite question: can you reorder a list that you have created? It seems to be locked in the order that you have added the individual issues. Welp, one of my lists, I added an issue from the wrong "volume" and putting in the correct issue put it at the end of my list. The only fix I see is redoing the list as a whole. It's just a reading list and not a big deal, but it's BUGGING THE HELL OUT OF ME.
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I've never been able to figure out if you could. Their entire interface is awful. My favorite bit of DC infinite is you can download issues, but are unable to access them if you have no internet or phone access. 🙃
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I am able to! I'd tell you how I do it, but I just tap on the screen a bunch until it let's me read my stuff.
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They were published online a while ago and I read the first volume and enjoyed it, I want to get back to it and read the rest...someday. It looks like the version on Humble is the "Complete Elfquest" edition, which is very high resolution but also B&W; most of the comics were originally published in colour, and the (print) Complete edition was published B&W to keep costs down.
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Hear about this Omnibus app thing, apparently Image is joining up with it. And the article says they'll allow the ol' drm-free downloads I enjoy, etc, could be something. https://bleedingcool.com/comics/image-vault-ahoy-valiant-sign-up-to-omnibus-digital-comics-app/
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The creators of Comixology are starting a new digital comics publisher with some, uh, interesting ideas. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/13/business/comic-books-creators-dstlry.html quote:Creators of comic books are “famous for being mistreated by publishers,” said David Steinberger, a co-founder and the chief executive of DSTLRY, a new company that wants to give writers and artists a greater stake for their creative efforts.
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I remember hearing about some digital things being limited and then sold on markets with zero issues! They were protected with cryptography and used as a currency...
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What is the name of the company? Is it some uniquely terrible way of spelling Distillery? Or do you have to say D-S-T-L-R-Y each time.
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How did we get from 'digital is amazing, you never sell out of the thing so everyone can get the album/book/movie they want' to 'gently caress you, only 2000 copies ever minted'? And can Scott Bakula or the new guy please quantum leap back and fix it?
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Yeah but like the artists will make actual comics instead of varients of whatever 4chan fetish poo poo sells and hopefully get the lions share of the money Nft was made with the intention of paying digital artists for work and show it was "owned" by said patron Never intended as a speculation market for garbage avatar art If Mike mignola, sam Keith or Linda Medley wanna make money off of me using this or any other method I'm ok with it. It's not like they destroy the comics or it's self deleting right? ...right?
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quote:The publisher will also offer comics digitally — but only for a limited time. Once the sales window closes, the digital copies will be heavily pirated
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Upsidads posted:Yeah but like the artists will make actual comics instead of varients of whatever 4chan fetish poo poo sells and hopefully get the lions share of the money But since they can reintroduce the comic to be sold doesn’t that either make a speculation market or it does nothing with no in between
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it's """"""not"""""" an nft lolquote:MacDonald: I know you’ve used the term “digital collectibles” in some early PR, which is what they’re calling NFT’s nowadays. So let’s be real clear about this. Are you doing NFTs? https://www.comicsbeat.com/david-steinberger-chip-mosher-explain-dstlry-new-comics-company/
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The Forbes article makes it sound like it's just single issues that are on sale for one-week only and the eventual collections will be regularly available but it's still stupid as gently caress.
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xK1 posted:The Forbes article makes it sound like it's just single issues that are on sale for one-week only and the eventual collections will be regularly available but it's still stupid as gently caress. That reminds me that I need to pick up a half dozen issues from Panel Syndicate that came out the last couple of months...
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Upsidads posted:Yeah but like the artists will make actual comics instead of varients of whatever 4chan fetish poo poo sells and hopefully get the lions share of the money In theory if you are the owner of a copy and die then unless there's some mechanism to recall your, uh, totally-not-NFT then it's gone forever. Or Mignola (or someone who hates Mignola) could buy copies back with a burner account and similarly "destroy" them by using a random email/pass. The only part that is good for creators is the perpetual cut, as in theory if a copy of Hellboyardee goes for $1M over and over again them Mignola keeps winning. But it seems to directly lead to the bad place that NFTs sprinted to which is the completely hosed up art market where the value is a completely arbitrary number because the actual use is a store of wealth. If an artist wants to make money and has an infinitely reproduceable good then the answer is to keep selling that good.
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Upsidads posted:Is it limited time or limited amount? Limited time, they'll sell the single issues as "new" for one week, then after that you have to buy them off other people until the trade comes out.
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unless it has fantastic drm i wonder how long that's gonna last also one week if loving stupid, it's not like physical copies just disappear forever if the shop doesn't sell every copy in the first week site fucked around with this message at 02:14 on Apr 14, 2023 |
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This is a really really loving dumb idea. I want someone to explain what the actual path towards success is for a potential comic creator with this method, you make issue 1 and release it on this platform and what happens after that. Assuming you've captured lightning in a bottle like Lee/Ditko Spider-Man or Kirkman's Walking Dead for a more contemporary example.
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