I've been overwhelmed with deadlines and whatnot, so I didn't get the chance to say how much I enjoyed 52. Well, it's been a while since I read it and probably nobody is interested, so I'll just say that from now on I'll gladly read any recommendation by ATDrake. And my kid is obsessed with Tiny Titans, so that makes two of us. I am sure my toddler will join the club in a few years.
I am having a great time getting to know the DC Universe. I've read some awesome comics: All-Star Superman, DC: The New Frontier, Batman: Year 100...
Unfortunately, Comixology has retired its Windows app and now us Windows users (I can't be the only one, right?) will have to content ourselves with their "great web experience". Apparently they announced this in September, but I only found out recently because the 4-year-old tablet I was using to read my comics from Comixology finally bit the dust, so I went ahead and reinstalled their awful app on my Surface hoping this time it would work a little bit longer. I wish I had known before that Batman sale. I wasn't expecting having to read those comics on my web browser. The app was awful, but at least it allowed me to read offline.
And in my case that "great web experience" gets completely ruined because every single time I go to the next panel or next page the navigation menu shows up. And those arrows are huge and sometimes get in the way of text.
I know this is no big deal, as I'll eventually buy a cheap Android tablet (or, who knows, an iPad), but it really irks me that they treat their customers this poorly.
They offered a $5 credit to their Windows customers, but I guess I didn't qualify because I didn't have the app installed when they made the announcement.
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Of course we don't need convincing, silly.
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The weeklong sale from DC is disappointing in that it's only a handful of collections, and pretty much all of them were on sale in singles form recently. The only new to sale-dom books are a few of the older Green Arrow books.
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It might be disappointing, but in my brief but already painful experience going broke because of Comixology sales, it is the first time I see a sale like this one. When I see collections on sale from either Marvel or DC, it's usually only the first volume of a series or several scattered volumes related to an event or a character (like the current Iron Man sale). I have the impression they use cheap collections to lure people to the rest of the series. This is the first time I see 5 collected editions from the same series on sale at the same time (only the 6th and most recent volume is not discounted). I guess this might be the best chance for a newcomer to catch up.
On the other hand, Image collections are slightly more expensive than single issues when on sale, and they don't seem to offer any bonus material (I wish Image offered better descriptions of their contents; sometimes they don't even mention which issues are included), so I wonder what's the point of these collections. I think I am missing something.
By the way, I just saw that Kieron Gillen (the writer of the excellent The Wicked + The Divine) has written a couple of the Iron Man collections on sale right now. They became more tempting all of a sudden.