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Sequential: fantastic comics viewer for OS X
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.
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Subscribe to commentsXeneticMar 12th 2009 3:31PM
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
QuikboyMar 12th 2009 9:58PM
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?
Jay HathawayMar 12th 2009 9:08PM
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.
QuikboyMar 12th 2009 9:59PM
Thanks Jay! :)
macewanMar 13th 2009 9:40AM
@Xenetic, thanks for that suggestion.
DarkeSwordMar 14th 2009 12:43PM
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.
LovezuneMay 12th 2009 12:48AM
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