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)

http://marvel.com/comics/unlimited

Ten bucks a month.

Definitely read Saga from the bundle. It's awesome.

I am in need of recommendations too. Am considering buying a story arc of some description from the Marvel Universe, but it annoys me that every single one seems to start the blurb with "Following the shocking events of Blah blah Blah..."

Deadpool, obv.

Hit me up if you'd like to know "a good shop".

any Vol 1 from the New 52 is a good place to start with for DC.

Be careful here, the New 52 is mostly utter, utter shite. There's a couple of series that are decent* and some that much later on became okay** but there's so much jaw-droppingly bad shit in there I honestly don't know what the fuck they're doing.

*The Batman stuff mostly, and Brian Azzarello's weird mythical take on Wonder Woman continues to be very good.
**Jeff Lemire has pretty much quietly rebooted Green Arrow all over again to make it into something that's not completely embarrassing to read and the current Swamp Thing run's not bad.

My recommendation would be not to necessarily look at certain characters/teams because the quality is incredibly variable depending on who's doing the writing at any given time. I think your best bet is to look at the best writers and see what they've done you might fancy. A couple of picks for writers to look for be Warren Ellis and Keiron Gillen; there's very little the two of them have done that isn't well worth reading.

If you're willing to go back a bit, Warren Ellis' Transmetropolitan series is completely stand alone and is just brilliant stuff from start to finish, but most of his own stuff is well worth reading. Super-hero wise he's done acclaimed runs on Iron Man, Thunderbolts (the issue where Norman Osborn finally completes his slow backslide from hero-of-the-hour to violent psychopath is honestly one of the funniest things I've ever read), and his original run on The Authority is top stuff.

Keiron Gillen started out with his own series Phonogram, a very British melding of magic and music that's well worth checking out. Since then he's done very good stuff with S.W.O.R.D., X-Men, Iron Man and Young Avengers. The best thing though is definitely his long run on Journey Into Mystery, which is a sort of Thor spin-off that he used to rehabilitate the character of Loki. It's funny and touching and just excellent all round.

Be careful here, the New 52 is mostly utter, utter shite.

I read the two Saga volumes from the bundle last night, they were great More like that please!

Deadpool, obv.

Hit me up if you'd like to know "a good shop".

A couple of picks for writers to look for be Warren Ellis and Keiron Gillen; there's very little the two of them have done that isn't well worth reading.

Thanks Bamba. The only problem I have is the same as Curio, the whole dropping into the middle of an established series, which I imagine will only be worse if I cherry pick particular writers unless I look at their standalone stuff?

Marvel's Civil War works as a standalone title, even though it references earlier stuff.

Other than the stuff already mentioned I'd single out Mark Waid's run on Daredevil and the Matt Fraction/David Aja Hawkeye, which are both all sorts of awesome.

I'm a seasoned shopper, but send it over

My current list of "shit to read"

y : the last man
preacher
batman : year one
100 bullets
superman : red son
Marvel : 1602
Fables
x-men - days of future past
Astonishing X-men
Planetary
Powers
Invincible
Deadpool
Spiderman : Brand New Day
Transmetropolitan

There are some good webcomics too, but that's probably something for another thread.

Hit me up if you'd like to know "a good shop".

Those of you that read Civil War, how did you go about what issues to include? I followed the reading order in this link and wondered if there are any other issues I need to include before I start reading.

Also, I've got a fuck-ton of stuff lying around and am happy to make any of it available for anyone who wants it. I've got an exhaustive list at home (on a spreadsheet of course), what's the best way to make that list available?

Publically shared google doc?