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iPhone vs. Comics

Tuesday, August 26th, 2008 at 10:03 am by Jami

This is a demonstration of PJ Holden’s Muderdrome iPhone App. I love the way you can scrub to the lineart from the finished colored page. Brilliant app for the App Store, right? Wrong. Apparently, as awesome as the Muderdrome app is, the content apparently violates Apple’s standards of decency. Apple refuses to carry Murderdrome at the App Store. Suck. I hope they release a jailbroken version of the comic because it’s just so awesome.

There’s another group, iVerse Comics, that’s taking a different approach. Instead of creating stand alone apps for every comic, they’ve created a comic reader. Individual comics would be served up through the app.

Creators can set their own price for their comic. They also retain all rights to their work. I imagine the comics served would all be subject to Apple’s decency standards, but it may be a little easier to get some more edgy content through iVerse.

Of course, there’s always ClickWheel. Their comics are formated for Video iPods and play as movies rather than static pages that you navigate through.

Of the three delivery methods, I think the Murderdrome application features the most sexy. The text is easy to read and scrubbing through to see the sketch, lineart, and final colors is just friggin brilliant. I hope that Infurious releases more comics this way. They’ll probably have to be apps that run on jailbroken iPhones. But the sexy must be shared!

[Via Infurious and iVerse Comics by way of Lying in the Gutters]

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4 Responses to “iPhone vs. Comics”

  1. AvatarDavid
    Posted: Aug 26th, 2008 at 1:29 pm
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    not a big fan of comics in digital format, but this is ridiculously great.

  2. AvatarTaellosse
    Posted: Aug 26th, 2008 at 2:28 pm
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    Why would the comics served through iVerse have to meet Apple’s decency standards? I can play porn in Quicktime if I want, and they have no say in the matter.

  3. AvatarJami
    Posted: Aug 26th, 2008 at 2:37 pm
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    @Taellosse, This is true. The app itself doesn’t have any objectionable content so that should be the end of it. iVerse could totally be the answer for Muderdrome. I do like their app better, but if getting the comic out is the important thing, iVerse seems like a good solution.

    I was wondering how people would watch teh pronz on their iTouch.

  4. AvatarTaellosse
    Posted: Aug 27th, 2008 at 2:42 pm
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    I’m quite sure people already do watch plenty of teh pr0n on iPhones and iPod touches. There’s several applications available, both free and for moneys that can convert a whole host of standard movie formats into the format that iPods use. Such applications are content-neutral, of course, as is the software on the iPod and iPhone, so it’s easy enough to get X-rated content on one, if that is your desire.

    And, of course, still pictures are even easier, since the things can read jpegs and gifs without anything funky done to them.

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