I really want to like comics, despite not liking half the ones I read.

I think I'll get these, though god knows what I'll read them on.

Yeah. I read the intro to Saga on my phone and whilst I liked it, it did need to be bigger.

Yeah. I read the intro to Saga on my phone and whilst I liked it, it did need to be bigger.

Still, I have a PC and the wife has an iPad, so I shall read on one of those.

I bought an iPad mini specifically to read comics on. Until Amazon release a full-colour 8" eInk Kindle, it's the best way.

I bought an iPad mini specifically to read comics on. Until Amazon release a full-colour 8" eInk Kindle, it's the best way.

I had a go at reading comics on ex-Mrs B's Nexus 7 and it was a good experience but it's better again on the Nexus 10 I felt so I reckon a full size iPad would be better than than the mini.

I tried reading some Marvel comics on my (2 year old) ipad and I wish it was bigger. I imagine if the comics were created for an ipad then it would be fine, if they are comic book size, then surely you want/need a comic book sized screen to read them on?

Malc

9.7-inch (diagonal) LED-backlit glossy widescreen Multi-Touch display with IPS technology
1024-by-768-pixel resolution at 132 pixels per inch (ppi)

A quick google shows that most comics seem to be 10.5 inches high by 7 inches wide.

Retina display
9.7-inch (diagonal) LED-backlit Multi-Touch display with IPS technology
2048-by-1536 resolution at 264 pixels per inch (ppi)
Fingerprint-resistant oleophobic coating

Fair enough. In reality though all I can say is that the experience of reading comics on my Nexus 10, which I think has a slightly bigger screen than an iPad to be fair, is lovely and much nicer for my money than a paper comic book. I certainly don't feel you're losing anything and it's not important the screen size is exactly the same as the original paper page size which is presumably a pretty arbitrary size as it goes.

The problem was that I was wanting to zoom in at points to read some of the text, and then you would get a double page spread etc.

Like I say if it was made for a 10" screen then it would be fine, but as (the ones I have read anyway) they are made for something almost twice as big it was annoying for me. Annoying enough for me to want a tablet the size of an encyclopedia at home! An open one at that!

Malc

I take it all back, just loaded the marvel unlimited app and it now zooms in on each panel!

The browser based app did all that the very first time I tried it years ago, guided reading mode they called it, and I really didn't like it. I felt all the zooming and panning made it hard to get immersed in the story and I much preferred to just see the page and scroll, if need be, myself.

Comixology does this very well indeed. In fact it makes using any other client very annoying for me.

I prefer to just see the whole page at once and read it exactly as you would if you had the printed version in front of you, which the size of the screen on my Nexus 10 allows. Also some of the stuff I've seen (JH Williams' stuff on Batwoman a while back for example) has really interesting non-standard layouts with art built into the full page which you wouldn't get the full effect of if you weren't looking at the whole thing. Mind you, not that I've got the option anyway being a filthy pirate and all.

I HAS THESE.

Now, what app should I use to read them, and what format should I use? I have various tablets and shit.

Hmm, that's Apple only and I have a crappy iPad 1.

A Kindle Fire, an 8" Samsung Galaxy Tab 3, a 10" Galaxy Tab 2, and a Samsung Note 3. And a PC, but the chances of me reading comics on that when Counter Strike is taunting me to improve my KDR is slim.

My personal choice is either CBR or CBZ (they're essentially the same, though historically CBZ has been more reliable)

You are aware that CBR files are .RAR archive files of the images which have been renamed from .RAR to .CBR
And that CBZ files are just .ZIP archive files of the images which have been renamed from .ZIP ro .CBZ

You can rename either back , open them in your favourite archive program and grab the actual images if you want :-)

I use ComicZeal

Ditto.

I've bought and installed ComicZeal. For some of the comics I've put on my IPad it puts them into a collection, others (from the same series) are put in outside a collection.

Any idea what I need to do so that comics from the same series go into a collection? I had a look at file names can't see anything obvious.

Does this help at all:

https://comiczeal.tenderapp.com/kb/orga ... nto-series

I've been reading Fables, quite a new and often dark take on all the fairy tale characters.

Also Crossed Badlands, a zombie type comic, not for the faint hearted!

This Humble Bundle thing is going to end up costing me a fortune if it gets me into buying loads more comics. Curse you, Bamba!

The only problem is they get read so quickly!

On a related note, if you weren't already aware, the latest game by Travellers Tales (the studio that did the recent Walking Dead game) is 'The Wolf Among Us' which is a murder mystery set in the Fables universe with Bigby Wolf as the main character. I've played two of the three currently available chapters and really enjoyed it.

Well, yeah, that's the reason why I tend to pirate them because the 'bang for your buck' is incredibly low. I understand why they cost what they cost but for the amount of time it takes me to read a single issue or trade it's just not worth it to me. I would actually pay a relatively high amount of money a month for a proper 'all you can eat' deal (i.e. Netflix for comics) but paying for individual issues or trades would cost a stupid amount and I'm just not going to do it.

Not for comics (yet)