read funnies on the raw iPad ’s retina screen is about to get a lot better . New comics from Marvel , DC , Image , and other major laughable publisher are all useable in retina - grade resolution , and back issues and indie strip should espouse case very shortly .
The bulk of the retina comic strip come fromComixology’sfreshly update apps , which power Marvel , DC , Image and other publishing firm . About 125 matter are useable in the “ CMX - HD ” data format to begin , covering every issue released last hebdomad , and every issuance released from this point on will also be in HD . Comixology and the publishers are also beginning work on making their entire back catalogs available in retina within a few month , hopefully .
Graphicly , the primary competitor to Comixology in digital comics , has its retina app submit and is just waiting on favourable reception from Apple . It also offers Newsstand subscriptions for several mirthful title that let publishing house push young issue directly to users ; those are already updated to provide HD downloads .
As for actually getting the newfangled file , the Comixology apps will recognise if you ’re using a young iPad , and mechanically bid to re - download any already - purchase comics in the novel HD data formatting . Graphicly did n’t say specifically how its would process , but expect something alike .
The CMX - HD format files are a little more than twice the sizing of current files . Graphicly has stress image timbre over size all along , but you may expect a noticeable size bump from their stuff as well . Which could be raspy on your iPad ’s storage — peculiarly since new iPad users wo n’t be able to download non - HD data formatting issuing . But then , Comixology and Graphicly had both been transmit files at higher - than - iPad-2 firmness for a while , which is why there was a obtrusive bump in image timber immediately on the new iPad . So it ’s not like you had tops small-scale file to start with . Retina resolution should improve the quality even further on full - size , and wipe out pixelation on zooming in .
Comics already await really , really good on the newfangled iPad , so we ’re reasonably emotional about toil into even purdier books from here on .
Update : Looks like DC ’s app is n’t updated just yet , so Marvel ’s the only major publisher that ’s live with retina so far . We were told that DC and the other publishers would be up today , too , but we ’ve reached out to seek to see if something went ill-timed .
Here ’s a sample side - by - side of the old and new resolution , whizz along in on a dialog box . Click for the full size of it . ( imitate the uniform resource locator of the expand variant into another tab for the full - full sizing . )
And here ’s another from Marvel :
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