CBR: Pipeline - Nov 30, 2010

[CBR News]

Augie read "The Walking Dead" digitally this week and has some thoughts on how reading the zombie survival epic on an iPhone affected the storytelling. Also, it doesn't get much prettier than a Jim Lee art book!


Full article here.

[Thad]

Remember those experimental "Madman" issues that Mike Allred did last year? One entire issue was virtually one long panel from page 1 through 22. Imagine getting through that in Guided View.

On the other hand, on a sufficiently large screen and using a simple horizontal scrollbar, the experience would be BETTER than the version that had to split that panel up across 22 pages.

[mjharwood]

Augie read "The Walking Dead" digitally this week and has some thoughts on how reading the zombie survival epic on an iPhone affected the storytelling.

Have to say that I read my comics through Comixology on the iPad, and (as you can imagine) didn't run into the issues mentioned. It works wonderfully for full page spreads, and even 2-pagers are readable most of the time. My wife reads Sandman and Fables (and a few Zuda comics) on her iPod Touch, and hasn't had much issue with the guided view, but she's also not "one of us"...

[adamthered]

I was giving a little extra attention to the Jim Lee book at Barnes & Noble about two weeks ago (about 60 minutes worth of attention).

It truly is a gorgeous book but I'm really disappointed that they didn't include his Marvel career as well. It seems rather incomplete without Alpha Flight, Punisher and X-Men work.

[Pyramid]

I was giving a little extra attention to the Jim Lee book at Barnes & Noble about two weeks ago (about 60 minutes worth of attention).

It truly is a gorgeous book but I'm really disappointed that they didn't include his Marvel career as well. It seems rather incomplete without Alpha Flight, Punisher and X-Men work.

I agree but as long as Jim is co-publisher of DC, Marvel will not give him anything else to get a royalty off of. That's probably why there is no Marvel Jim Lee stuff on Comixology. Speaking of which, I hate guided view. I don't need my hand held and it seems like cheap animation which is why I turn the thing off.

[dancj]

Augie - I'm guessing you have an iPhone 4. I tried out a couple of free comics on my 3GS and if you turn of the (highly irritating) automatic panel rotation some of the text becomes quite unreadable at the lower resolution.

Either that or it's just that Walking Dead has a more consistent panel size and shape.

[Lexor7]

iPad is definitely the way to go. I'm not a big fan of guided view making iPad, for me, is the perfect way to enjoy digital comics.

[mjharwood]

I agree but as long as Jim is co-publisher of DC, Marvel will not give him anything else to get a royalty off of. That's probably why there is no Marvel Jim Lee stuff on Comixology.

Interestingly enough, Jim Lee's X-Men series is now in Marvel's comics app by Comixology... weird timing.