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You know, I totally love Warren Ellis and his writing (for the most part, there are some duds) - and he makes an excellent point here. But it would been great
by shawnc 14y ago
You know, I totally love Warren Ellis and his writing (for the most part, there are some duds) - and he makes an excellent point here.
But it would been great if he took those five minutes to create a visual example of how he thought it could be better. Because even as he explai a it I can't quite picture how a cropping of the cover would actually be better.
As a comic lover and buyer - a thumbnail version of a full cover seems more enticing to me than a cropped one. It's what I'm used to (moving from print) and I can tap it to view info and a larger cover. I can't picture how a cropped version would be better. Possibly a shot from inside the comic but sometimes covers are part of the fun.
- dmorgan 14y agoHe's not talking about adding cropping. He is talking about optimizing the cover image for Comixology cover display. What he said, is that even with (i.e _despite_) cropping, the iD cover images still look better than the comic covers ("It’s not a great way to display their covers. And it’s obviously a little bit reduced here. They cropped the damn covers into squares themselves, so the logo is truncated in almost all images."). So, what he asks for is larger legible titles, the heroes showing better in the small thumbnail display, etc, instead of a plain shrank version of the actual cover.