#comickaze

I'm thrilled to announce the triumphant release of Comickaze v1.3, jam-packed with new features, tweaks and improvements, and bug fixes.

Dark Mode

Comickaze now supports Mojave and Catalina's Dark Mode and system-wide accent colors (Purple is pictured above). The reader window was ahead of the curve here, always being dark, but now your eyes won't be blinded by the light when choosing your next comic (which, by the way, is easier than ever with new controls to skip to the next and previous comics right from the reader!).

Touch Bar

Since getting a MacBook Pro with Touch Bar, I've been looking forward to adding custom controls for it to Comickaze. Hopefully when reading on the go, it makes your life a little easier.

Language meta-data

I heard from some of you multi-linguists out there that you'd like to track which languages your comics are in.

Comic fingerprinting

Comickaze is now smarter about detecting duplicate comics as you add new ones to your library. This feature looks at the contents of the comic, so different filenames won't fool it.

Undo support removed

Unfortunately, Undo/Redo had become a major source of crashes in Comickaze, and for the time being I've removed undo/redo support. I'd like to bring this back. If this matters to you, let me know the situtations in which you'd like Undo/Redo to be supported, and I'll work to get it put back in a future release

SO much more

There are a lot more improvements and fixes in this release, which you can read more about (as always) on the release notes page.

The most important change in this version is that it restores Mojave and Catalina compatibility to the Send Feedback menu item that broke with the last release.

In addition, it adds a cool new feature for any of you with folders of images that you'd like to read as comics (thanks to Mark for the suggestion!). Use the File -> Find Comic Files… menu item, and then check the new Find image directories box, and they will be turned into CBZ files on import.

Check out some comic news and reviews from around the web in our morning roundup #comics #comicbooks

It’s a new week and one where we get to wrap up this year and start a new one! While we prep our “best of” lists and more, here’s some comic news and reviews from around the web in our morning roundup.

Newsarama – How Mile High Comics Changed Comic Book Distribution – An interesting read.

ICv2 – R.I.P. Robert Scott of Comickaze – Our thoughts are with his friends and family.

The Beat…

This release fixes a whole bunch of user-reported issues. The bulk of them were reported using Comickaze's built-in issue reporter (which has been included for a while) that pops up automatically1 when it fails to open a comic file:

When you send in an issue this way, I get a copy of the file and I'm able to take a look at what's going wrong when opening it. That led to the following discoveries, addressed in v1.2.6:

Some of you read comics that have images in Google's WEBP format instead of more typical JPG images

Many of you double-click on issues ot open them in Comickaze, which should have worked, but gave an error each time, which is now fixed

Some of you have password-protected PDF comics or CBZ files created with the Deflate64 algorithm, which Comickaze doesn't support, but it wasn't telling you that, and now it does

These, and a couple other user-reported issues have been addressed in this release. So keep the reports coming!