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Evil Inc full page, week of July 28, 2019 — beta-testing a mobile viewing experience!
🕑 Added 2019-08-01 13:59:52 +0000 UTCHere's your exclusive first look at the full-page version of this week's Evil Inc — and this week, it features a new feature... we're beta-testing an improved viewing experience for mobile users.
NOTE: I'm already seeing that Patreon may be displaying the panels in the wrong order for some users. I'll say on top of that with Patreon's Support team.
Patreon now supports posts with multiple images. Creators can now upload several images to the post, which are then opened in a swipeable gallery by mobile users. (Desktop users will have a similar experience, but they'll use arrows to navigate the gallery.)
What that means is that I can now upload a panel-by-panel reading experience for users to navigate through. For desktop users, it's not a big deal. But for those of you reading Evil Inc on mobile devices, this is big.
Here's how it works for mobile users: I'll upload the full page as usual. It will be the first (and perhaps only) image you see on the post. All you have to do is open the post (tap the image) and a gallery will appear on your screen. Path through the posts by swiping your finger sideways across the screen. You will be able to navigate through the comic panel by panel.
Desktop users: Today's panels may look a little out of focus for you. That will be the case for these b&w previews due to the way I prep them. When I replace the preview with the full-color version, I will replace the b&w previews with full-resolution color panels as well.
Note: This feature in all of 48 hours old. I fully expect a few hiccups, and we'll handle them as they arise.
Comments
David Heiligmann
The full page at the end of the gallery has a different panelj referring to how evil Miss Match is, versus how “heroic” Captain Heroic is. Double entendres?
Brad Guigar
That's why I made the full page the first post in the sequence. If you don't like the panel-by-panel reading experience, you can read the full page as usual in its original format and swipe no further.
Stephen King
Grrr! Bloomin' lack of enter = newline functionality.......I'd just like to add that I thought it didn't work as a reading experience - there's not enough story progression to justify a new screen per frame; it felt like a series of 14 anticlimaxes
Brad Guigar
That would be the correct reading, yes. :)
Brad Guigar
Stephen... when you say "same here," are you agreeing with David's comment?
Stephen King
Aye. Same here.
David Heiligmann
On my Ipad Pro, i get full page, then panels in correct order.
Brad Guigar
Help me understand. When you click on the post, it opens up the full page in gallery mode. That gallery image can be clicked on to enlarge it. Are you saying that you clicked on it and enlarged it to full size, and the resulting image was blurry?
Brad Guigar
I'm having a hard time understanding you, Jeff. The main post should be the full page. They're definitely in the right order in the full page. If panels 7 & 8 are in the same order as they appear on the full-page version, then they're in the correct order.
Jeff M
Panels 7 & 8 are switched in order for me, but they’re in the same order as displayed in the main post.
Patrick
Instead of seeing them out of order the mobile version is crisp, but the single image version for desktop is blurry.
Robert Gibson
I liked it ... I didn't see them in wrong order!
Brad Guigar
I'm on the line with Patreon Support, and they say they can't reproduce the error — even though I'm seeing it from my side. Is anyone else seeing the panels out of order?
Kyle Voltti
So am I the only one reading the tracking demons text with Kevin Kliens voice now?
David Heiligmann
This is easier to increase a picture and read the text. Almost looks like preliminary feeling out for a skirmish...
