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Monday Runaround – Terrorists, Condoms And Nooks

Published Mon, 28 Nov 2011 04:10:15 -0600

NookVsFireWatch: Which is better for reading comics? Nook or Fire?

"Unlike the Fire, the Nook Tablet can pinch to zoom in those spots of artwork that require closer inspection or pieces of text that are just too small to read with the page at full-size. However, the Fire's panel-by-panel reading method is really the ideal way to experience a comic on a screen with limited screen space. With the Nook, you regularly find yourself pinching to get a closer look and scrolling around like mad to make it around the page. Once you flip the page, the whole thing pops back into place."

TerrorWatch: More comic books across the world turn to fighting terrorists.

"in a bid to reach out to a wider audience, Indian War Comics released titles depicting the life, bravery and martyrdom of the heroes who lost their lives. The books include — Braveheart of Mumbai — 26/11 (Major Sandeep Unnikrishnan, AC), The True Maratha (Col. N. J Nair, AC, KC) and Yeh Dil Maange More (Capt. Vikram Batra, PVC) and more are slated to release in this series. To ensure that these real-life stories reach out to the younger lot, they were even launched for the tablet."

CondomWatch: In the light of rising HIV+ figures, Israel turns to the comics.

The AIDS Comic Exhibition, geared toward raising awareness among Israel's youth, will focus mostly on the importance of safe sex and of breaking the stigma often directed at people living with the HIV virus. The exhibit will remain on display at the Dizengoff Center in Tel Aviv until January 1, 2012, and will feature the works of some of Israel's top comic artists, including Zeev Angelmeir, Michele Kishke, Uri Fink and Nimrod Reshef.

ComicSansWatch: Hating Comic Sans…

"That's what should happen to people who insist on polluting their school reports/newsletters/restaurant signs/gravestones/etc/etc with Comic Sans. They should be forced to the edge of life; outside of civilised society. They should be branded as the pariahs they are (in Comic Sans, just for the sake of irony) until they accept and acknowledge that they don't know their arse from their elbow. That or they should be shot."

GuyWatch: Every Monday I write and draw a cartoon for the Guido Fawkes blog. The creator of which has just been summoned to Parliament. It's on the news and everything, I feel like I'm a tiny bit player in a major BBC political drama.

This is Computo the Comic Link Conqueror speaking. I come for your women. But for now I merely collate comic-related bits and pieces online. One day I will rule. Until that day, read on.

They say I am a work in progress. The fools.

Disney Releases Marvel App – NYTimes.com

Seeking an opportunity to reach digitally curious children, on Monday the publishing arm of the Walt Disney Company will release its first app based on a Marvel Comics character, a children's book app featuring Spider-Man.

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