Worst… issue… ever!Ĭomics by Comixology’s issue-browsing interface lets you buy comics by tapping the button in the top-right corner.By offering the ability to buy comics from within the Comics app, you’ve got to wonder ifĬomic Book Guy might need to consider closing The Android’s Dungeon and looking for a new line of work. It’s relatively easy to jump back and forth between the two views, though I wish Iconology would make toggling between the two modes simpler than it is now. (The comic-reader appĬomicZeal does a great job presenting comics in this fashion.) Comics succeeds there because, at any point, you can drop out of reading a comic in guided mode and instead read it in the more standard iPhone style of pinching, zooming, and panning. By controlling zoom levels and masking out the content outside the panel, Comics provides a reading experience that’s essentially guiding your eye from panel to panel as the artist and writer intended.įor a lot of comics fans, that’ll be a non-starter, because the joy of reading comics is often allowing your eye to roam around a page. When you tap to advance to the next panel, the app shifts your display to the next panel (or zooms in or pans across a single panel), but you actually see the view change as it tracks across the comic page.

Each page of the comics available on Comics has been invisibly marked up by Iconology, so that the app knows the proper panel sequence. By default, you can tap through a comic panel by panel, but the underlying full page still exists.

Iconology’s approach with Comics provides the best of both worlds. IVerse Reader solved the ease-of-use issue by ditching the traditional comic page entirely, chopping each panel up into iPhone-sized bits. The most obvious approach to navigating is to treat each page as a single image and allow you to pinch and tap to navigate around the page, which can be a lot of work. A panel from Invincible #1, zoomed and masked automatically by the Comics app.Because the iPhone’s screen is so small, navigating around a comic page can be difficult.

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