Sequential: fantastic comics viewer for OS X
by Jay Hathaway Mar 12th 2009 at 2:00PM
On top of being fast and crash-free, Sequential is also just plain pretty. It displays EXIF data for photos in nice, Leopard-style bezels, and has all the resizing options you could want for either photos or comics pages. Navigating entire folders is no problem, and there are even next folder / previous folder controls. There's also a slideshow mode, which might not be that useful for reading the latest manga, but comes in handy for batches of photos. Bottom line: if you read comics digitally, Sequential is well worth the download.
So, just how good at time waster games are you? Think you've got the stuff? Well, The World's Hardest Game 2.0 doesn't think you do.
Yes, amazingly, it's possible to have a sequel to a game called "The World's Hardest Game". It doesn't seem logically possible, since if the first one was actually the world's hardest, how could another one come along and share the moniker? It made me doubt the name in the first place. That is, until I tried the game.
The mechanics of the game are very simple. You are a small red square, ...
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Xenetic said 3:31PM on 3-12-2009
I've had sequential for some time now. I never thought to use it as a comic book reader. Now that I've tried it, it's nice, but I still prefer Simple Comic by a long shot.
Being able to view 2 pages side by side (useful for widescreen monitors), autosaving page positions in cbz/cbrs when the program quits, an expose like view for every page in the comic, and other really nice features make Simple Comic my viewer of choice.
Sequential is still really nice, but a far better image viewer than comic reader for me
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Quikboy said 9:58PM on 3-12-2009
I'm more surprised that there's actually digital comics out there. I wasn't aware of that. Where do you go to find the best digital comics?
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Jay Hathaway said 9:08PM on 3-12-2009
For the latest stuff, you probably have to check certain sources of dubious legality, but there's a collection of Golden Age stuff that's fallen into the public domain here: http://www.goldenagecomics.co.uk/
Corey Doctorow's comics are all Creative Commons licensed, and R. Stevens released the whole Diesel Sweeties archive digitally.
I think we'll see a lot more iTunes-style paid downloads of high-quality CBR and CBZ files from the big comics companies in the near future.
Quikboy said 9:59PM on 3-12-2009
Thanks Jay! :)
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macewan said 9:40AM on 3-13-2009
@Xenetic, thanks for that suggestion.
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DarkeSword said 12:43PM on 3-14-2009
Now all we need is the big publishers offering a digital alternative to printed comics.
Not that I'm complaining; I love picking up my stack every week. But it'd be nice to have a legal way of digitally browsing back issues instead of tracking down out-of-print expensive trades.
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Lovezune said 12:48AM on 5-12-2009
I think we'll see a lot more iTunes-style paid downloads of high-quality CBR and CBZ files from the big comics companies in the near future.
http://www.vcao.net
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