John’s Comments (group member since Apr 03, 2022)

John’s comments from the I Read Comic Books group.

Ed wrote: "You are correct, it is more than just "Europe Comics". But until the digital revolution most of these were not available in English. Even if they were translated into other European languages, Engl..."

I noticed that Humanoids comics have been on offer from the likes of HumbleBundle recently. I picked up a lot of their output and some of it is fantastic.
There is , I find, more emphasis on the art than on charcter or story in many of their publications though when the artists are as good as Moebius that clearly isn't an issue!

Mike wrote: "This may be a loaded topic, but I'm curious to hear what you all think about the comiXology shutdown and move to Amazon. How's your experience been? What are your thoughts on the new app? What abou..."

I logged in to my laptop today to read BArry Windsor Smith's Monsters. Its very intricate and detailed and I was expecting to be able to zoom in on panels as before.
My laptop has a flippable 13" screen and was a great way to enjoy comics.

Sadly our friends in Amazon have removed all the useful features from the Comixology reading app on Windows and replaced it with the Kindle Cloud Reader. You have two reading choices - double page or single page.
Utterly useless.