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Friday 10 June 2011

A new way of sharing stories


Okay, Castle of Lost Souls part one is coming up on Monday as promised - and that's the original White Dwarf version, remember. And to entertain you over the weekend, here's a look at the cool new comics reader widget from Graphic.ly, which allows users to share around their comics.

"Just like a YouTube video, you can now embed the comic wherever you want," writes Graphic.ly president Micah Baldwin. "Put it on your blog. Include it in a story."

If you like this, click over to Graphic.ly, give us a rating, and take a look at the hundreds of other comic books they have on offer. No, I don't own shares.

5 comments:

  1. To be honest, it's too clunky, like every other flash comic reader I've seen.

    I'd rather just look at image files.

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  2. The Graphicly reader isn't Flash but HTML, Megazver. In fact there is the option just to scroll through whole-page images or to select a guided panel-by-panel view, that's up to the user's preference. Did you look at our own Mirabilis comic reader for iPad, btw?

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  3. Love the story. I am going to have to buy the other episodes.
    But.
    A new way of sharing stories?
    It's a comic. A very nice comic, well drawn and with a cracking tale. But it's a comic. On a computer.
    The mechanism behind it is of little or no interest to the reader (IMHO) in the same way that the comic reader (unless a complete geek) isn't interested in the print process.
    By the way, is there a bundle option where you can buy them all at once?

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  4. I don't know about you, Mike, but in the days of print there was no way I'd put my prized comics into somebody else's hands. Not after I lent out my Hellblazer collection and got it back with the covers all scrunched up!

    Glad you like the story. The iPad app (search for "Mirabilis - Year of Wonders" in the App Store) should have a bundle option in the next update, if our coder can figure out how to charge for [remaining issues you don't yet have] that is :)

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  5. Who was the bastard who scrunched up your Hellblazer covers? I'd like to... hold on, wait a minute....

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