People who get to know me notice two things about me immediately: that I love gadgets of all kinds and that I love comic books. Working at Small Dog Electronics allows me to scratch the itch for all the latest gadgets and tech (even if I can’t always afford the ones I really want).
Lately, I’ve been searching for a new way to merge my love of gadgetry and tech with my love for comics. My long quest has come to an end thanks to the iPad. All the major comic publishers (Marvel, DC, Dark Horse, etc.) have apps on the iTunes App Store that give readers access to digital versions of their print comics. Needless to say, these versions look AMAZING!
Comics, however, is an app that gives you access to the catalogs of the all the major publishers as well as independent, artist-owned publishers with titles that have digital editions. There are categories for every type of genre from superheroes to horror to science fiction to manga. Flipping the pages is as easy as in any ebook.
But for users like me who have vast archives of digital comics already stored on their hard drives, there is another app called ARCreader that allows you to import multiple file types using the library manager. Using this app, I can walk around with 1000 different comics titles on my iPad. I can read an entire storyline from The Walking Dead before the AMC show comes on each week and measure the differences.
Being a comic book geek has never been this easy. All of these apps are free downloads in the iTunes App Store, and prices for titles range from free to $4.99.