Tuesday, June 29, 2010

Importance of the Device

The most important decision that you can make, in terms of digital comics, is what device to use for viewing the comic books. After reading a lot of commentary across message boards and comments written on articles, I have noticed a disturbing trend; a large chunk of people complaining about how digital comics are not a good substitute for print comics have either not tried reading digital comics or they are using a device that isn't well-equipped to give the best experience to the user. Let's go through a few of the devices that are currently comic book enabled (I'm sure the one that I think is best won't surprise anyone):

Monday, June 28, 2010

Digital Revolution?

Ideally, in the near future, I would like to read a vast majority (if not all) of my comic books in a digital format. Currently the best way to do that is through Comixology's Comics iPad app. While Comixology is by far the best venue for your digital comics fix (in terms of quality and quantity), it leaves much to be desired (a fault with which I would rest the majority of the blame on the publisher's shoulders).