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COMICS! |OT| June 2016. The Manhattan Project
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GamerKingFaiz
Member
Over the weekend I went to an Apple store and a Microsoft store to try out the iPad Pro and the Surface Pro 4, respectively.
I ended up ordering the Surface Pro 4 off Amazon (because it was cheaper and no tax), because if I was gonna spend that much money, I might as well get a laptop as well (I've been passively thinking about getting one for the past several months).
It does suck that there's no native app support, so I won't be able to save offline, without using some workarounds, but what made you decide to get the iPad Pro over the Surface Pro 4 (if that was even a consideration for you)?
I love that they finally implemented the ability to continue a Discover series from the comic you are reading in a Discover series. Instead of having to go back and find the next comic in the Discover series.
I've found that website through a Google search or two. What's bad about it, seems like a decent resource.
BrightLightLava
Unconfirmed Member
Katie Kate's the best.
Grizzlyjin
Supersonic, idiotic, disconnecting, not respecting, who would really ever wanna go and top that
I thought the same thing. The Rockford Files inspiration is especially strong during that arc, and I love it.
I see how it is
Lashley
Why does he wear the mask!?
I hate the Royal Mail
Already have a laptop, only use my tablet for comics, so it was a no brainer
Already have a laptop, only use my tablet for comics, so it was a no brainer
Tyrant Rave
Banned
You should finish Batman Inc.
TetraxShards
Member
And yet you have more posts than anyone this month.
Be the change that you wish to see in the world.
I kid I kid. I like this thread more than CBR. But I still use CBR forums because those guys are hardcore about physical collections from all over the world
I only buy American and i don't think you should hold that against someone.
That shade.
I'm going to try and get through some of my backlog this week.
Deadly Class volume 1-3
East of West year 1
Gundam the Origin whole series
Hopefully I can get a little progress done because I have 3 library editions of hellboy and 3 brpd volumes to read at some point as well.
Everybody does.
I'm going to try and get through some of my backlog this week.
Deadly Class volume 1-3
East of West year 1
Gundam the Origin whole series
Hopefully I can get a little progress done because I have 3 library editions of hellboy and 3 brpd volumes to read at some point as well.
Everybody does.
Freezasaurus
Member
I've given up hope of ever clearing my backlog. I buy books faster than I can read them. But I've been making a lot of progress in the last few weeks. Mostly in the manga department, though.
American books printed in Mexico right? or Canada?
That is not what I am saying lol. It is a cool place to see what people buy from other countries and languages.
GamerKingFaiz
Member
What!? Really? I can kinda understand people wanting to play with foreign Magic: The Gathering cards because at least for popular cards you'll know what they do just by recognizing the artwork.
But foreign comics seems really counter intuitive, unless you just want it as a collector's item, I suppose. Do enough people really want foreign comics to make them a collector's item?
You got a problem with AMERICAN collections?
Brian Fellows
Pete Carroll Owns Me
I only go to the Image board over there but everyone in it seems cool enough.
Freezasaurus
Member
Tijuana bibles are really the only comics worth importing.
Luckily i don't read the trades i buy so i just assume they are made in America.
Speaking of trades, i should really get around to finishing Fraction's Hawkeye series, i stopped reading my print issues in favor of waiting on the vol 2 OHC but then never read it leaving me having not read the final four issues of the series. I bet it's good.
Nooo, it is just nice to see what people are into from all over.
soccer manga.
Brian Fellows
Pete Carroll Owns Me
Sounds like an abomination.
billmcdougal
Member
I said I wasnt sure about The Boys, but here I am on volume 6.
Sometimes it feels like it's trying too hard to be dark, violent, and edgy, but there are some pretty interesting politics and characters.
Will need to take a break though to try out the $1 tier humble ghostbusters comic bundle issues to see if it's worth the full purchase.
Sometimes it feels like it's trying too hard to be dark, violent, and edgy, but there are some pretty interesting politics and characters.
Will need to take a break though to try out the $1 tier humble ghostbusters comic bundle issues to see if it's worth the full purchase.
Hawkeye omnibus
Great great great great read! There was a ton of stand out issues that I havent seen done in a marvel book before. I thought I was going to hate the kate solo but ended up loving it. She can easily do a solo book at this point. Madame masque and the other inclusion of avengers/shield was cool too.
The main story was cool and the bros were funny goons. Clints brother was a good inclusion. The clown hit man was legit scary.
The art was good, but the panels and the way the arrows moved arc is the page was lovely.
Kate bishop is now a favorite mine and Clint is cool but never was a fan of him.
5/5
Great great great great read! There was a ton of stand out issues that I havent seen done in a marvel book before. I thought I was going to hate the kate solo but ended up loving it. She can easily do a solo book at this point. Madame masque and the other inclusion of avengers/shield was cool too.
The main story was cool and the bros were funny goons. Clints brother was a good inclusion. The clown hit man was legit scary.
The art was good, but the panels and the way the arrows moved arc is the page was lovely.
Kate bishop is now a favorite mine and Clint is cool but never was a fan of him.
5/5
BrightLightLava
Unconfirmed Member
Nice. And it's only June. 1000 km or bust!
What's a kilometer? Like a football field?
I had an I5/8GB RAM Surface Pro 3 that I bought for largely the same reasons as you, though Comixology actually had a (terrible) app for it at the time. I ended up selling it after less than a year and moving to the iPad Pro on release. The SP3 was kind of the worst of the laptop and tablet worlds; it was a slow, glitchy laptop with poor battery life, and it was also a clunky tablet with no app support. It was ultra frustrating to never know if it would actually wake up from sleep or if I'd end up having to force restart it, and there were a ton of times when I'd go to read comics in bed and then end up spending 20 minutes troubleshooting my tablet before giving up and just going to sleep.
I miss some things about it (i.e. easy access to USB sticks and zero workarounds with file management), but for every one thing it did right, it did ten others very, very wrong. It's possible that the SP4 fixed everything wrong with the 3, but I think I'm back in the iOS fold for the foreseeable future!
About 0,6 miles^^
The 400 km were run between Late may 2015 and today, so its not thaaaat good, but I would never had believed that I could accomplish this.
Haven't people said Sheriff of Babylon is good?
They can use him at DC proper no?
GamerKingFaiz
Member
This is my biggest fear getting the SP4, but I'm hoping for the best. One of the things iOS doesn't seem to be able to do is just annotate on a PDF (using the stylus/pen).
My second use for this SP4 is gonna be to use it for as my character sheet in D&D.
Yup
BrightLightLava
Unconfirmed Member
Not natively, which is a common and annoying thread with iOS in general, but there are apps that do it. PDF Expert is a good one (with an unfortunately ugly icon).
Thought so
Tragicomedy
Member
Planning on it very soon. At least by this weekend.
I'll typically go a week without reading anything in my backlog, then completing 2-3 series in the course of a day or two. It all comes down to how gripping a story is. I read all of American Vampire in a day. All of Locke and Key in two days. There will always be a backlog, but I end up crushing big chunks of it before letting it build back up.
Latest goals are to finish Morrison Batman, finish Snyder Batman, and then hit up all of the TMNT books I purchased (three trades down already). But for some reason I decided to catch up on Ant-Man's adventures in Miami so that's what I read last night.
I read the full run of The Boys on my last stint in Afghanistan. There were a handful of issues where Ennis managed to escape the try-hard parody realm and actually achieve proper satire, but they were far and few between. It wasn't for me. Ennis on the Punisher and Preacher are fantastic, but he loses me elsewhere.
7/13/2016
Thanks!
GamerKingFaiz
Member
Does it preserve the fillable text on a PDF? My D&D character sheet has formulas on it so that when you fill in a certain field it'll automatically fill out other parts of the form.
The guys I talked to at Apple said that the iPads could only draw over copies of the PDF (i.e. it would lose the fillable text layer).
Wouldn't be the first time Apple employees didn't know everything, though I guess my use case is a little bit more of an edge case, though how rare is annotating a fillable PDF?
BrightLightLava
Unconfirmed Member
Ah, I don't know about that. When I've used it, it's been to annotate on top of scripts, so I don't have to worry about that.
TerminalDogma
Member
Deadly Class Major Spoilers from that interview:
Wow, I really didn't think they went and killed Marcus at the end there. Honestly, that kind of puts me off on the book now. I also very much misunderstood the Petra/Billie exchange. Probably need to read the arc again, but I thought Petra figured out that Billie was the one who called and poisoned him for that. She was the one who called? Man, everyone you could root for is just dead? That really does put me in a bad place with this series, even though I loved it. I trust in Remender and Wes enough to follow up with the next arc when it starts, but wow. Kind of turned off of it right now. Anyone else feel that way?
BrightLightLava
Unconfirmed Member
Finch is going to make it really hard to like half of King's Batman.
Tragicomedy
Member
It's the Batman-Namor love child.