Oh and pay twice the price.
You can see why it never really caught on.
Well, yesterday, 2000AD launched it's first Apple App, for the iPad and iPhone And made 2000AD avalailable to download from the Apple Newsstand, on day-and-date digital terms, at £1.99 or $2.99 a copy, compared to a £2.25 or $5 print price.
However the[...]
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London-based start up DeepComix from DeepApps appears to have perfected the art and have released a free App to give us a hands on demonstration.
If you don't have an iPhone or iPad, here's how it looks.
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I wondered when this would come.
I saw this first with The Thrill Electric (still available as a free App)[...]
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Josh Viola of Leviathan Games has created The Bane Of Yoto, a digital comic for the iPhone 4 and iPads, using tilt controls to alter the way you see different levels on the page The background and foreground of the panel turn as you twist the page.
It basically gives the illustration a three dimensionality in[...]
We've all become familiar with the X-O Manowar "talking" posters and cover, using the iPhone to create a talking narrative from the central character.
And while I've been a bit silly, some have been sillier But how original is this idea?
This is a campaign for Reporters Without Borders Press ads in which the reader can scan[...]
This is the Valiant promo for the talking X-O Manowar poster, that uses a QR Code to launch a video on an smartphone, becoming the mouth of the character;
One, Viz Magazine, the latest issues, digitally captured verbatim for £2.49 an issue on iPad and iPhone Or a newly released Viz Strip Teaser, which contains just the comic strips, for £1.49 And October 2011's edition free, with the Fat Slags getting involved in fake psychic readings, Sid The Sexist trying to recreate Carry On[...]
Courtesy of the bizarrely-named Obama Pacman, here is a look at the iPod/iPhone dock, with built-in taser, inspired by Batman.
As for how it works, here is what Armstar has to say about it:
The user determines they need to activate the arc device, then pull out the safety pin The user then presses their fingers against[...]
What a nice, intuitive piece of programming I thought.
Looks like ComiXology thought so too.
It's one of the new features in the ComiXology Comics 3.0 App, a brand new build just launched for the iPhone and iPad.
Completely redesigned application
Near instant launching
Separate "Purchases" area that displays all owned comics
New series groupings in[...]
While the iPad may have introduced man to full screen digtal comics reading, as Jim Lee pointed out, many still enjoy the guided reading experience,
Bleeding Cool reported this morning on the early availability of Ultimate Comics Thor #2 on the iPhone and iPad – followed by its sudden withdrawal and disappearance from the reader app from those who had paid to download it.
Said purchasers have just received the following letter;
Thank you for your recent purchase of Ultimate Comics Thor[...]