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Originally Posted by replica145
That's how all digital comics work unfortunately; they use a comics reader. There is no standard for digital comics yet, you're generally locked into wherever you buy them from.
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Technically there are three de facto standards -- CBR, CBZ, and CB7 (with popularity in that order). There are plenty of readers that support some or all of those formats. There are a ton of comics available in these formats, both legal (free, out of copyright, gold and silver age comics and some newer CC-licensed comics) and illegal (everything else). What's missing is DRM for these formats and support from major publishers.
If ebooks today are approximately where digital music was at in ~2005, comics today are approximately where digital music was in 1997-1998 -- mp3 had become the de facto standard because that's what people ripped CDs to and shared via Napster and other places, and the industry was just barely starting to recognize the phenomenon. Maybe by 2020 we'll be able to buy DRM-less CBR or CBZ comics from DC or Marvel. Assuming they're even still around by then.