News & updates
Welcome to New Comic Book Day!
This week sees the release of a brand new comic series starring Anna Marie LeBeau aka Rogue. In #1 of Rogue: The Savage Land Rogue has to rely on her most basic skills to endure the threats of the Savage Land and all its inhabitants, ranging from dangerous dinosaurs to the malicious Magneto himself.
Batman / Superman: World’s Finest, Vol. 2 #35 sees Batman, Superman and Robin starring in an intriguing new story arc. They team up with Aquaman in order to keep peace to the Atlantean kingdom. But things aren’t what they seem underwater and The King of Atlantis seems to struggle with a mysterious secret. If you are longing to experience a solid spy thriller this week, look no further than G.I. Joe, Vol. 1 (Image) #3. Tensions rise between Duke and brand new member Risk and cooperation is key in order to stand against the evil forces of Cobra.
Happy Reading!
Today is New Comic Book Day, so the perfect day to release the new NCBD feature for your trusted Add Comics screen! We bring you a completely redesign of the Pull List tab, you know, the rightmost tab of Add Comics. At the same time, we are renaming the tab to “NCBD” as we figured that this was a better fit of what the feature does, especially after today’s complete redesign.
Here’s what’s new:
- In the Add Comics screen, the fourth tab is now called “NCDB” (previously “Pull List”)
- Navigate over weeks with next/previous arrows, or click on the week/date for a dropdown
- Release list now directly shows the issues, as a Card View with big images
- Click on an issue to see all its variants
- New: filter by “#1’s” to show all #1 issues (so all new series)
- Sort issue list by Popularity or Alphabetically
To try the new NCDB tool for yourself, open the Add Comics screen, then choose the 4th tab called “NBCD”!
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:
- Add Games by barcode: the add button could show the wrong number of games that were about to be added
Adding games by scanning barcodes is THE most important feature of the app, so we will never stop trying to make the barcode scanner better and better 🙂
In today’s 9.5 update, we bring three improvements to the barcode scanner:
- Now reads barcodes much faster and in the entire camera screen!
- New scanning feedback shows where it “sees” a barcode
- New Type Barcode tab for manual barcode entry and support for external USB/BT scanners
Adding movies by scanning barcodes is THE most important feature of the app, so we will never stop trying to make the barcode scanner better and better 🙂
In today’s 9.6 update, we bring three improvements to the barcode scanner:
- Now reads barcodes much faster and in the entire camera screen!
- New scanning feedback shows where it “sees” a barcode
- New Type Barcode tab for manual barcode entry and support for external USB/BT scanners
Welcome to this weeks edition of New Comic Book Day. Mutant sorceress Magik (Illyana Rasputina) gets her own new ongoing series. Be sure to check out her devilish adventures in #1 of Magik, Vol. 2, published by Marvel Comics.
Over at DC Comics we witness the return of Arthur Curry in another new ongoing series for this week. As Aquaman he faces several colossal monsters from each of the seven seas in Aquaman, Vol. 9.
Let’s stay with DC Comics for now and check out Absolute Batman. Issue 4 is an origin issue, explaining everything from the tragic events of Bruce Wayne’s childhood to how he got to this point. At the same time it also ties in some of the events from the earlier issues. Be sure not to miss this one.
Happy Reading!
Adding albums by scanning barcodes is THE most important feature of the app, so we will never stop trying to make the barcode scanner better and better 🙂
In today’s 9.5 update, we bring three improvements to the barcode scanner:
- Now reads barcodes much faster and in the entire camera screen!
- New scanning feedback shows where it “sees” a barcode
- New Type Barcode tab for manual barcode entry and support for external USB/BT scanners
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!
Let’s kick off 2025 with two of Marvel Comic’s biggest stars, Deadpool and Wolverine! They are back again, ready to annoy each other, fight evil forces and save the universe while they’re at it. Be sure to check #1 of the brand new series Deadpool / Wolverine.
In #’1 of DC Comics’ Justice League: The Atom Project, we follow the exciting adventures of the two Atoms, Ray Palmer and Ryan Choi. Be sure to keep your ion this thrilling new mini-series!
And traditionally the beginning of a new year is the perfect time to ask yourself essential questions. So if you ever wondered What If…? Galactus Transformed Hulk; you can find out now in #1 of this Marvel Comics one-shot!
Happy Reading, and have a great 2025!
CLZ Alwin here, with the last CLZ Newsletter for 2024.
But first: A happy 2025 from the entire CLZ Team: Martin, Rowdy, Sven, AJ, Pim, Joe, Bernard, Justin, Taco, Kelvin, Sytske and me, Alwin!
Then next up: I have some BIG news:
CLZ is going fully remote per Jan 1!
Yep, today is our last day at the office! Starting Jan 1, CLZ will go fully remote, fully virtual. No more office, no more CLZ HQ. We will all work from home!
During the Covid period, we already worked from home for almost 2 years. During that period, we became pretty efficient in communicating over Slack, meeting using Google Meet, working together using screen sharing, etc…
Post Covid, we never went back to the office in full, most of the team kept working from home 3 days a week, and 2 days at the office. And like many other companies, we are finding that this hybrid situation is far from ideal… and quite costly.
While some companies are attempting a full BTO approach (back to office), we have decided to go the other route: we are going fully remote!
This will give us all more flexibility to work from anywhere, at any time. Lower costs and no more lengthy commutes. And unlike the Covid period, we can still meet IRL whenever we need or want. We are planning to do “social meetings” for lunch or dinner twice a month, and project-based meetings on demand.
We are super excited for this new officeless era!
With that out of the way, here’s the other CLZ News for December 2024:
- Mobile apps:
- CLZ Comics 10.0: Add Comics by scanning the covers
- CLZ Comics 10.1: Check Comic Values by scanning covers
- Web apps:
- CLZ Web: Improved Add screens for all 5 Web flavors
- Coming up: CLZ Web UI refresh
- CLZ Core updates:
- Core for Movies: “Check Covers” project, 86% cloud coverage!
- Core for Comics: New Comic Book Day summary, 2,027 new releases
New Year, New Comics! Get ready for the most anticipated releases of the first week of 2025. 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!
The year is almost over, but not before we take a look back at this year’s biggest hits!
We have done some queries on our Core online comic database to gather popularity stats, based on usage of the CLZ comic database app and software. Using the results of those queries, we created these fantastic Top 10 Comics of 2024 lists!
Here it is, the final NCBD of the year. And it’s a small one, only 311 releases.
Let’s start strong with two total Marvel badasses! We join Bishop and Cable on a time-travellng adventure in Marvel Comics’ brand new series Timeslide.
In DC Comics’ Action Comics, Vol. 3 #1081 we witness the final battle between the heroes of Earth and Aethyr’s enemy forces. This looks like a job for Superman and his family!
And last but not least we dive into #6 of Hello Darkness, published by Boom! Studios. This holiday season issue offers plenty of creepy Christmas stories, created by amazing artists like James Tynion IV, Garth Ennis and John Arcudi!
Happy Reading!
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 in the Add Comics screen:
- Add Comics: NCBD tab: Tapping “View all issues” for a series didn’t work
- Missing Comics: “Open in Add Comics” link didn’t go to the right tab
- iOS only: Add Comics: The bottom area with the Add button was acting strange sometimes
Wishing you all a Merry New Comic Book Day and a Happy New Pull List!
This week we start with the Christmas-themed issue 12 of Ultimate Spider-Man, Vol. 2. Even though the Christmas season is upon them, it looks like dark clouds are gathering above the Parker family.
In issue 1 of New Gods, Vol. 5 we learn that an old god passed away, which sets up many dangerous and chaotic events. Be sure to check out Ram V and Evan Cagle’s take on this epic series.
And last but not least we received a RSVP from a galaxy far, far away. Let’s travel to the beautiful world of Eriadu, where lovers Lula Talisola and Zeen Mrala are going to tie the wedding knot any time soon. Go read Star Wars: The High Republic Phase III – The Wedding Spectacular and see you at the wedding reception!
Happy Reading!
Today, a big update for your CLZ Games Web software.
For this update, we have done a complete re-design of the Add Games screen. The 3 main goals here were to:
- Make it easier to find the actual game and release you own, when adding by Title
- Make the search results more compact and nicer looking
- Make it all fast and snappy
Today, a big update for your CLZ Movies Web software.
For this update, we have done a complete re-design of the Add Movies screen. The 3 main goals here were to:
- Make it easier to find the actual movie and release you own, when adding by Title
- Make the search results more compact and nicer looking
- Make it all fast and snappy
Today, a big update for your CLZ Comics Web software.
For this update, we have done a complete re-design of the Add Comics screen. The 3 main goals here were to:
- Make it easier and faster to navigate when adding comics by Series
- Make the search results more compact and nicer looking
- Make it all fast and snappy
A nice update for your CLZ Music Web software today.
We improved the Add Albums screen to make it more compact, better looking and a bit snappier to use.
On top of that, the process for combining discs into multi-disc albums is much better now.
Here’s what’s new:
- Search results now show the number of discs
- The Preview panel on the right has been replaced with a nice and quick “Confirm” popup, that just slides in from the bottom.
- Improved process of combining discs into a multi-disc album
A small update for your CLZ Books Web software today.
We improved the Add Books screen to make it more compact, better looking and a bit snappier to use.
The main change is that the Preview panel on the right has been replaced with a nice and quick “Confirm” popup, that just slides in from the bottom.
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!
A week ago, we released the huge v10.0 update for CLZ Comics, in which we introduced a new super easy (and super fun!) way to add comics:
Add Comics by just scanning the cover!: Take a picture of the cover and the app will instantly show you matching covers from our CLZ Core online database. Tap the one you want to add it. Quick, easy and fun.
Today, in version 10.1, we’re taking the next step, by bringing the cover scanning feature to your Check Value screen!
A week ago, we released a huge v10.0 update for CLZ Comics, in which we introduced a new super easy (and super fun!) way to add comics:
Just scan the cover!
Take a picture of the cover and the app will instantly show you matching covers from our CLZ Core online database. Tap the one you want to add it. Quick, easy and fun.
However… after the v10 launch, we immediately starting getting the request:
“Can you please add the cover scanning in the Check Value screen too?”
Of course, we saw this one coming from a mile away 🙂
In fact, we had originally planned to include that in v10.0 right away. We later decided to postpone, so that we could launch the cover scanning for adding comics released ASAP.
But we are now ready to make that next step: