News & updates

These top-10s are created by you all, the users of the CLZ app and software, as they’re based on how often these comics already appear on your wish lists in the CLZ Cloud, even before release!

Coming up soon, yet another huge update for your CLZ Books app! This is something we have been working on for many months. And now we are finally so close to release that I can disclose what is coming up:

New in CLZ Book 10.2: Automatic book values and retail prices!

With this new update, our CLZ Core online book database will provide book value/pricing information for used books, plus retail prices.

In more details, this is what will be new in version 10.2:

Get values for your books, based on average selling prices of the books on various online used book stores.
The old “Current Value” field will be renamed to “My Value” and will let you either OVERRIDE the automatically provided value, or just fill in a value for books that did not get an automatic value.
Get automatic retail prices in the Retail Price field (previously named “Cover Price”).
Use the new Update Values screen to regularly update your book entries with up-to-date Value and Retail Price information.
Optionally use the Retail Price as a “fallback value”, when an automatic Value is not available.
See Value statistics and totals in the Statistics screen
Sort your book list by Value

Will I get values for all my books?

With close to 40 million books in our CLZ Core database, we will not be able to provide a value for all books in your collection. In particular, books without ISBN will not get values, as our value system is purely based on ISBN lookups.

Currently, our Core and Cloud statistics show that CLZ Books users will get a value for around 83% of their books, on average. Your mileage may vary, for example, if you own mostly mainstream US books with ISBN, your percentage may be closer to 90%. If you own mostly antique books, or only books in the Polish language, your coverage will probably be much lower.
The coverage of books with a value may slightly improve over time, as we are still gathering value information for less popular books.

Automatic values will be a premium feature, available for subscribers only

The “Automatic Values” feature will be the first “premium” online feature for CLZ Books. This means that it will only be available for users with an active paid subscription.

In particular, this means that this feature will not be available for users who are still using the app in “grandfathered” mode (as they purchased the app before it became a subscription app). Of course, grandfathered users who DO want access to this feature are welcome to get a paid CLZ Books subscription)

ETA ??

Coming up within a few weeks. I will send out a Sneak Preview email with more screenshots once we are closer to the final user interface.

This version has a couple of behind-the-scenes maintenance changes.

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Comics! Get your comics! Fresh off the press!

Yes, we know the sequels are not received well. But Marvel is doing something really cool with Star Wars: Legacy of Vader #2. Charles Soule has you going back to the origin of Vader through the eyes of Kylo Ren. By having him go back to places Vader has visited in the past. You’re visiting Tatooine once again with pirates on Rancor’s and a member of the Hutt family! Great fun!
For DC this week we want to put the spotlight on a few classics that have been reprinted. Swamp Thing, Vol. 2 #37, Batman #31, Batman Adventures #12 are all getting facsimiles, which of these are you picking up?

Time is having a crisis. Mingling in the red-light district, you can find actual cavemen, medieval knights, and cyborg soldiers on leave from World War IV. Victorian debutantes amble their way into cell phone stores, confused and bewildered (what is a data plan?). On their way to work, bleary-eyed commuters get trapped in time-loops, assaulted by alternate-reality versions of themselves, and try to avoid post-apocalyptic wastelands. And LOOK: the 3:15 bus just took a wrong turn… into the neolithic era. That’s Assorted Crisis Events #1 for you in a nutshell!. Deniz Camp and Eric Zawadzki along with Jordie Bellaire are giving you an ongoing, zig-zagging anthology series about the compromised clicks of our clocks-full of one-shot stories both beautiful and ugly, tragic and redemptive, surreal and somehow all too familiar.

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These top-10s are created by you all, the users of the CLZ app and software, as they’re based on how often these comics already appear on your wish lists in the CLZ Cloud, even before release!

Fixed:

Fixed: various crashes related to the recent performance improvements

Fixed:

Fixed: various crashes related to the recent performance improvements

Fixed:

The bottom collection tabs were invisible

Fixed:

The bottom collection tabs were invisible

android collection tabs

What’s New:

Optimized startup process for a quicker launch
Improved Sync with CLZ Cloud: Smoother and faster, especially with image downloads

Fixed:

Add Comics screen could crash when searching/adding comics
Problems could occur when updating to new app version with an incorrect login

add comics android sync

What’s New:

Optimized startup process for a quicker launch
Improved Sync with CLZ Cloud: Smoother and faster, especially with image downloads

Fixed:

Problems could occur when updating to new app version with an incorrect login

Fixed:

A crash could happen on start-up

Fixed:

A crash could happen on start-up
A crash in the Add Hardware screen

Fixed:

A crash could happen on start-up

In the Add Comics screen the issue numbers/variants are now displayed in a white (or dark, depending on your skin settings) box with a black border. Items that are already in collection will be in blue, already on wish list will show in an orange box!

Come and see! It’s NCBD, the best day of the week.

The X-Men are back with a new event: X-Manhunt. Kicking off with 3 titles Uncanny X-Men, Vol. 6 #11, NYX (Marvel), Vol. 2 #9 and Storm, Vol. 5 #6. It’s an 8 part crossover where you’ll follow Professor X’s escape from Graymalkin Prison.

The JSA, Cornered by KOBRA! JSA, Vol. 2 #5 has the JSA, who have a lead on a KOBRA facility preparing for their next terrorist attack. But which faction of the team will make it to the facility first, and what will it mean for the future of the world’s first super-team?!

Have you ever heard of the anthology series Monkey Meat (2022) from creator Juni Ba? If not, here’s your chance to hop on the new limited series titled: Monkey Meat: The Summer Batch #1! back for five new issues, from the creator of The Boy Wonder! Going on vacation? How about a hellish African fantasy island run by a corporation selling cans of monkey meat? Enjoy our summer vacation format with two tales, games, and double the traum… huh, excitement!

Happy Reading!
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What’s New:

Optimized startup process for a quicker launch
Improved Sync with CLZ Cloud: Smoother and faster, especially with image downloads

Fixed:

Problems could occur when updating to new app version with an incorrect login
Rare crash when showing keyboard in Add by Title/Author

What’s New:

Optimized startup process for a quicker launch
Improved Sync with CLZ Cloud: Smoother and faster, especially with image downloads

Fixed:

Problems could occur when updating to new app version with an incorrect login

BOOK ONLY FIXED:
* Rare crash when showing keyboard in Add by Title/Author

These top-10s are created by you all, the users of the CLZ app and software, as they’re based on how often these comics already appear on your wish lists in the CLZ Cloud, even before release!

This is a recommended security update:

2FA support: if you have 2FA enabled on your CLZ Account, the app will now ask you for the 2FA authenticator code when you log in to the app
Several other changes to better secure your account
New “Change email address” link in the CLZ Account screen

Fixed on Android:

On startup, the collection tab-bar on startup could be blocked by Android navigation bar

2FA android ios key security

This is a recommended security update:

2FA support: if you have 2FA enabled on your CLZ Account, the app will now ask you for the 2FA authenticator code when you log in to the app
Several other changes to better secure your account
New “Change email address” link in the CLZ Account screen

2FA android ios key security

It is Feb 28, so here’s the February 2025 edition of the CLZ Newsletter.

For the mobile apps, instead of diving headfirst into the next cool feature to build, we decided to take a step back and work on several maintenance builds to enhance device compatibility, security and performance.
When those are all completed, we’ve got two big updates planned for CLZ Books (automatic pricing!) and CLZ Games (ToysToLife support).
Read on below for more details about recent and upcoming updates.

For the CLZ Web software, web-developer Joe has done two nice feature updates for CLZ Comics Web (Hide Owned) and CLZ Movies Web (Unrecognized barcodes).
However, the re-design project that I announced earlier has been delayed a bit, as web-developer Sven needed to work on several server-side projects to support the recent and upcoming mobile app updates.
We expect to be back on the re-design soon though.

Today’s topics:

CLZ mobile apps:
- All Android editions: Edge-to-edge support
- All: Security updates, with 2FA support
- Coming up, CLZ Books 10.2: Automatic book pricing / values
- Coming up, CLZ Games 10.0: Toys-to-Life support (Amiibo’s, Skylanders, etc..)
- Coming up, performance related updates.
CLZ Web cloud-based software:
- CLZ Movies Web: Better screens for reporting “unrecognized barcodes”
- CLZ Comics Web: New: “Hide Owned” toggle on Add by Series tab

Welcome to this weeks edition of New Comic Book Day.

The rampaging Red Hulk is here for the first time with his own solo series. Red Hulk #1 tying into the One World Under Doom event, he is now a prisoner of Dr. Doom. Along with Think Tank, he’s here to help carry out Doom’s plan for global domination.

Return to the darkness with a new recurring story by legendary horror scribe R.L. Stine, collaborating once again with acclaimed Stuff of Nightmares artist Francesco Francavilla! Hello Darkness #8 gives you a team-up of Marguerite Bennett and Luana Vecchio for a twisted story about a woman’s revenge, and a family’s time of mourning takes a frightening turn in a new story by Joanne Starer and Khary Randolph. Oh and check out that amazing Dan Mora cover (#8D)!

Radiant Black is one of those series you should keep an eye on. What Kyle Higgins and the team behind this have created is something truly special. Kyle is quickly becoming an industry favorite. Their last event “Catalyst War” just ended so a new era of Radiant Black starts here with Radiant Black #31! It’s modern but still keeps that classic superhero storytelling at heart. It’s never too late to dive into this series.

Happy Reading!
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