I once called myself a comic collector, and a while back (toward the end of the Dreamwave era) it just got too much for me and I quit completely, cold turkey. I stopped buying & reading comics altogether.
But when IDW went digital, I picked it back up again (freed from having to be careful with the crease, packaging, storing...). I went back and read All Hail Megatron (really liked it). I read it all on the ipad -- with a screen about big enough to stand-in for real comic pages. (It's not quite as big as a real comic, but with the easy zooming, it's really not too bad.)
With the advent of IDW's new software partner, comiXology, reading on something much smaller, like my phone (mine's an android - which wasn't previously supported at all), became an option. (They have a special viewing mode for small screens like that, which shows you panel-at-a-time, not page-at-a-time.) At first, I was thinking, "well, that's obviously dumb and hokey." Then, I re-read a comic with it, and I thought "that's actually, surprisingly not bad, for a phone."
Then I picked up the on-going series, starting at the beginning of Chaos, and I just finished Chaos. I read about half of these issues on my phone, despite having ready access to my ipad. (Admittedly, I recently got a new phone. It's awesome, and I'm generally in love with it.) It's weird. I honestly don't know which comic reading experience I prefer, even though the phone screen is so much smaller. The panel-at-a-time mode is really neat. It makes you appreciate each panel more, where seeing the whole page, it's sometimes too easy to fly through the panels too fast, and under-appreciate them. The panel mode has a way of sucking you in, that I really wasn't expecting.
It kind of makes me wonder what it's might be like to read in panel mode on something a bit bigger, like the new Kindle...
Has anyone else tried reading on the comixology app? Am I all alone? What are your experiences?
) and the monthly cash saved could be applied to actual living expenses.
