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GOOD TIMES ON METH: Mar 17, 2006; Fun Shoe

Does anyone use a Fire 8 tablet for reading .cbz files? Is the screen size ok or do you have to do a lot of scrolling per page?

# ? Mar 7, 2017 23:01

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# ? Apr 27, 2024 15:03

Uthor: Jul 9, 2006; Gummy Bear Heaven ... It's where I go when the world is too mean.

What's the resolution on it?

I have an Asus with an 8" screen and 2048 x 1536 resolution. It's fine for reading most single pages of comics without zooming in. If the file resolution sucks or if it's an old book with lots of words, I need to zoom in a tad.

I'm 50/50 for zooming in on two page spreads.

Some people read in landscape mode and zoom to width, then just scroll down. That's about the width of a regular comic book.

# ? Mar 8, 2017 00:12

Teenage Fansub: Jan 28, 2006

Just make sure Comixology supports HD comics on it.

# ? Mar 8, 2017 00:22

Zachack: Jun 1, 2000

GOOD TIMES ON METH posted:

Does anyone use a Fire 8 tablet for reading .cbz files? Is the screen size ok or do you have to do a lot of scrolling per page?

Regular or HD 8? I took my HD on vacation and got by fine. It's not my ideal (aka my dead Note 12.2 or fantasy Surface) but the HD was sharp enough to read with little scrolling/zooming.

# ? Mar 8, 2017 04:55

GOOD TIMES ON METH: Mar 17, 2006; Fun Shoe

Thanks for the replies, I think I'll hold on pulling the trigger on a Fire and see if I can find something used somewhere over 8". The 1280 x 800 resolution scares me a bit, even though I'm sure it is pretty usable in practice.

# ? Mar 8, 2017 14:43

Uthor: Jul 9, 2006; Gummy Bear Heaven ... It's where I go when the world is too mean.

Invincible sale.

https://m.comixology.com/Invincible...ble_collections

# ? Mar 9, 2017 23:10

Rirse: May 7, 2006; by R. Guyovich

There is a Giant Size Man Thing sale on Comixology.

https://www.comixology.com/Man-Thing-Sale/page/14355?ref=c2l0ZS9pbmRleC9kZXNrdG9wL3NtYWxsQ2Fyb3VzZWw

# ? Mar 10, 2017 05:05

Teenage Fansub: Jan 28, 2006

Love me some giant size man things.

# ? Mar 10, 2017 05:33

bobkatt013: Oct 8, 2006; Youâre telling me Peter Parker is ...... Spider-man!?

It is Gerber's entire run?

# ? Mar 10, 2017 05:52

Opopanax: Aug 8, 2007; I HEX YE!!!

Teenage Fansub posted:

Love me some giant size man things.

Comic's good, too

# ? Mar 10, 2017 06:02

Teenage Fansub: Jan 28, 2006

Marvel's got a BOGO sale on for some reason.
https://www.comixology.com/Marvel-Buy-One-Get-One-Modern/page/14351?ref=c2l0ZS9pbmRleC9kZXNrdG9wL2xhcmdlQ2Fyb3VzZWw

# ? Mar 10, 2017 06:58

hadji murad: Apr 18, 2006

Awesome, seems to work on everything!

# ? Mar 10, 2017 09:11

Lily Catts: Oct 17, 2012; Show me the way to you
(Heavy Metal)

I literally have no more to spare after spending so much on comic sales last month. I think I'm lucky this time.

# ? Mar 10, 2017 11:17

Uthor: Jul 9, 2006; Gummy Bear Heaven ... It's where I go when the world is too mean.

Aw, yiss.

# ? Mar 10, 2017 16:25

Uthor: Jul 9, 2006; Gummy Bear Heaven ... It's where I go when the world is too mean.

Does Marvel still discount books after a year or so? I'm a little surprised by how many issues are still costing $3.99.

# ? Mar 11, 2017 20:00

Rirse: May 7, 2006; by R. Guyovich

Is the complete Man Thing worth the ten bucks with the current Marvel promo?

# ? Mar 12, 2017 20:36

Teenage Fansub: Jan 28, 2006

Marvel Knights sale, which stacks with BOGO (add 'MARVEL' as a code at checkout.)
https://www.comixology.com/Marvel-Knights-Sale/page/14368?ref=c2l0ZS9pbmRleC9kZXNrdG9wL3NtYWxsQ2Fyb3VzZWw

# ? Mar 13, 2017 14:27

Scuba Trooper: Feb 25, 2006

Any recommendations for this sale?

# ? Mar 13, 2017 18:14

Uncle Boogeyman: Jul 22, 2007

Rirse posted:

Is the complete Man Thing worth the ten bucks with the current Marvel promo?

Absolutely.

# ? Mar 13, 2017 18:24

Rirse: May 7, 2006; by R. Guyovich

Uncle Boogeyman posted:

Absolutely.

Looks like that sale is over now, so oh well.

[edit]

There is a Iron Fist sale. Looks like it stacks with the MARVEL promo for the next hour, so anything worth grabbing from it?

Rirse fucked around with this message at 03:48 on Mar 14, 2017

# ? Mar 13, 2017 19:57

Doctor Spaceman: Jul 6, 2010; "Everyone's entitled to their point of view, but that's seriously a weird one."

Rirse posted:

Looks like that sale is over now, so oh well.

[edit]

There is a Iron Fist sale. Looks like it stacks with the MARVEL promo for the next hour, so anything worth grabbing from it?

Brubaker / Fraction's Immortal Iron Fist run, at the very least.

Doctor Spaceman fucked around with this message at 05:02 on Mar 14, 2017

# ? Mar 14, 2017 04:45

Rirse: May 7, 2006; by R. Guyovich

Doctor Spaceman posted:

Brubacker / Fraction's Immortal Iron Fist run, at the very least.

Cool, I grabbed them. I already had volume 1 for free when they gave it out a few months ago, so I grabbed Volume 2 and 3 which those runs were in.

# ? Mar 14, 2017 05:00

Gaz-L: Jan 28, 2009

There's also an Unlimited free month code up: RAND.

# ? Mar 14, 2017 15:51

Sarchasm: Apr 14, 2002; So that explains why he did not answer. He had no mouth to answer with. There is nothing left of him but his ears.

Gaz-L posted:

There's also an Unlimited free month code up: RAND.

Any really spectacular stuff from the past five years or so that I should check out while it's free?

# ? Mar 14, 2017 17:08

zoux: Apr 28, 2006

Everything by Kieron Gillen.

# ? Mar 14, 2017 17:11

Mr Hootington: Jul 24, 2008

Gaz-L posted:

There's also an Unlimited free month code up: RAND.

Unfortunately with this promotional code, you have to write and draw the comics yourself.

# ? Mar 14, 2017 18:06

Lobok: Jul 13, 2006; Say Watt?

Mr Hootington posted:

Unfortunately with this promotional code, you have to write and draw the comics yourself.

Well I know who I'm writing mine about.

# ? Mar 14, 2017 18:14

Medullah: Aug 14, 2003; FEAR MY SHARK ROCKET IT REALLY SUCKS AND BLOWS

guess it's a good deal.

# ? Mar 14, 2017 23:08

Teenage Fansub: Jan 28, 2006

Sarchasm posted:

Any really spectacular stuff from the past five years or so that I should check out while it's free?

Jonathan Hickman's Avengers/New-Avengers/Infinity/Secret Wars
Mark Waid's Daredevil
Jason Aaron's Thor: God of Thunder, Thor, Thors, Mighty Thor
Tom King's The Vision

# ? Mar 14, 2017 23:33

Scuba Trooper: Feb 25, 2006

Where the hell is the DC sale?

# ? Mar 15, 2017 01:05

Doctor Spaceman: Jul 6, 2010; "Everyone's entitled to their point of view, but that's seriously a weird one."

Sarchasm posted:

Any really spectacular stuff from the past five years or so that I should check out while it's free?

All of what Teenage Fansub said, plus Hawkeye, Ms Marvel, Squirrel Girl, Patsy Walker, Ellis' Moon Knight.

# ? Mar 15, 2017 01:09

Teenage Fansub: Jan 28, 2006

hup posted:

Where the hell is the DC sale?

There's a Batwoman sale on the sales page, but no banner yet.
https://www.comixology.com/comics-sale?list_id=15893&lang=1
Get Detective Comics #854 through Batwoman #23, Annual #1, then pick up again at Detective #934, which is her Rebirth team series.
Avoid Marc Andreyko's bit except for the Annual.

# ? Mar 15, 2017 02:23

Scuba Trooper: Feb 25, 2006

Nice. How's bombshells?

# ? Mar 15, 2017 04:26

Uthor: Jul 9, 2006; Gummy Bear Heaven ... It's where I go when the world is too mean.

All the reviews I've seen for it are great. I read the first arc or two and liked it, but didn't keep up (like I didn't keep up with most of the other DC digital first properties).

# ? Mar 15, 2017 04:32

OhFunny: Jun 26, 2013; EXTREMELY PISSED AT THE DNC

Check your emails.

Comixology is handing out 30% off promo codes for orders of $15 and more. Good for everything released on March 14th and before.

Doesn't stack with sales unfortunately.

# ? Mar 21, 2017 03:39

Doctor Spaceman: Jul 6, 2010; "Everyone's entitled to their point of view, but that's seriously a weird one."

Yup, I got one.

Offer expires in a week or so.

# ? Mar 21, 2017 03:41

Rirse: May 7, 2006; by R. Guyovich

OhFunny posted:

Check your emails.

Comixology is handing out 30% off promo codes for orders of $15 and more. Good for everything released on March 14th and before.

Doesn't stack with sales unfortunately.

Ugh, two of the books I was going to get were released last week, so I can't even use the coupon to get the newest Ms Marvel and US Avengers. Also didn't they just have a House of M sale a few weeks ago?

# ? Mar 21, 2017 04:15