Iverse Media. Comics. Anywhere.

I’ve tried a lot of comic readers for iPhone and have been unhappy with what I’ve seen.  Largely, my dissatisfaction with those apps grows from a poorly imagined transition from print comic to PDA.  Much of what I’ve seen fails to consider the differences in medium and the specifics challenges of a digital handheld device.  That is until iVerse Media came along with its comic reader application.

Instead of scanning entire pages and having the reader zoom in and zoom out, iVerse Media scans each panel rendering huge on the handheld detailed action.  Comics in iVerse, then, read very much like a comic strip.  I love it!

Further, the greater attention to panel detail provides a much different experience than the print page.  I find that with comics I have already read in the floppies, I am discerning more detail and catching things I didn’t see the first time in the iVerse application.

I first started using the iVerse app back in November of last year shortly before I met iVerse Media founder and cheerleader, Michael Murphey, at Wizard World Texas.  I spoke to Michael recently about his application and the future of digital comics… Read the rest of this entry »