What's new in CLZ Comics? (page 9)
Adding comics by barcode is one the main features app and an essential part of that is the camera barcode scanner.
For this update, our mobile app developer Pim has spent a few days optimizing that camera barcode scanner. The idea was to make better use of the power of today’s devices, both in cameras and computing power.
And the results of his tweaks are amazing. The scanner is now much faster!
The difference in scanning speed will be especially noticable when scanning the longer barcodes seen on modern comics, with a 2 digit or 5 digit extension. Correctly scanning that extension is essential for identifying the exact issue and variant.
We would love to hear how the new scanner works out for you, please let us know in this Club CLZ post here!
A more compact NCBD. With this week we have 476 new releases and 208 actual new unique issues. Ghost Machine is releasing their universe with Rook: Exodus, Redcoat and Geiger getting a new volume. Deadpool is being re-launched along with a new issue for Grim (Boom! Studios). Don’t forget to pick up a copy of Transformers this week, a bunch of reprints for issue 1 through 4 are due this week!
All new books are now listed in the CLZ Core online database, easily searched and browsed through your trusted Add Comics screen.
Since November 2021, CLZ has been providing you Key Comic information for your comics, like first appearances, cameo appearance, deaths, iconic covers, etc.. Up till now, we have been indicating the importance of Key Comics using Major Key (yellow) and Minor Key (blue) designations.
However, starting today, we are renaming Major and Minor and are introducing several extra Key Comic importance levels, so that we can give you a more granular indication of a comic’s importance.
Here’s an overview of the new Key Comic levels, with some examples:
We hope you will enjoy these new key indicators!
Got any questions or feedback? Please post your comment in the special topic on the Club CLZ forum here!
Fixed:
- Sync with CLZ Cloud: A crash could occur during downsyncing
After the huge version 9.0 update back in November 2023, our mobile team has been focusing on two big v9.0 updates for our CLZ Movies and CLZ Games apps.
But… we’re back working on CLZ Comics now, bringing you a nice v9.1 update, with two often requested features:
- Use Edit Multiple to set Creators and Characters for multiple comics in one go
- Tap a creator name in comic details to instantly see all comics he/she worked on
Next to that, we are working to improving the barcode scanning, this is now live for Android in this update. Coming up for iOS.
NCBD! This week brings us 516 new releases and 223 actual new unique issues. Our eyes are on X-Force #50 and Monstress with both titles having their milestone issue this week. X-Men ’97 #1 to coincide with the show which is now on streaming. Don’t forget to pick up Sam and Twitch: Case Files #1, that’s looking like a good read.
All new books are now listed in the CLZ Core online database, easily searched and browsed through your trusted Add Comics screen.
Another weekly NCBD, this week brings us 547 new releases and 254 actual new unique issues. It has us excited for Star Wars: Visions – Takashi Okazaki #1 which gives Takashi Okazaki’s spin on the Star Wars Universe and is a continuation from the Star Wars Visions series. Beneath the Trees Where Nobody Sees #4 looks promising and don’t forget to pick up DC’s Ape-pril which also looks very a-peel-ing.
All new books are now listed in the CLZ Core online database, easily searched and browsed through your trusted Add Comics screen.
It’s that time again, our weekly New Comic Book Day activities. Today brings 221 actual new unique issues, but when we count all variants we arrive at 503 new releases. TMNT almost comes to an end, a new Avengers Twilight releases and Wolverine’s Sabretooth War finishes up.
All new books are now listed in the CLZ Core online database, easily searched and browsed through your trusted Add Comics screen.
There we go again, with our weekly New Comic Book Day festivities 🙂 Today brings 200 actual new unique issues, but when we count all variants we arrive at 480 new releases. There is one new issue TMNT issue with a crazy number of variants: 55 !!!
All new books are now listed in the CLZ Core online database, easily searched and browsed through your trusted Add Comics screen.
After a hectic morning, the CLZ content team just finished adding all of today’s new comic releases to our Core online comic database.
In total, today brings 502 new releases for 226 actual unique issues. You can find all of them in your Add Comics screen now. Or better yet, browse them all using the Add screen’s Pull List tab!
Today is New Comic Book Day, so here is our weekly overview of new issues and new series.
In total, today brings 486 new releases for 229 actual unique issues. You can find all of them in your Add Comics screen now. Or better yet, browse them all using the Add screen’s Pull List tab!
Thanks to our translator Peter Stickler, the Connect web-based software is now available in Swedish!
If you are interested in translating Connect to your language, let us know!
The main translations we are looking for at the moment are:
- Norwegian
- Italian
Today is New Comic Book Day, so here is our weekly overview of new issues and new series.
In total, today brings 463 new releases for 178 actual unique issues. You can find all of them in your Add Comics screen now. Or better yet, browse them all using the Add screen’s Pull List tab!
Today is New Comic Book Day, so here is our weekly overview of new issues and new series. Including one new series that starts off with 69 variants (!!!) for issue one!
In total, today brings 422 new releases for only 163 actual unique issues. You can find all of them in your Add Comics screen now. Or better yet, browse them all using the Add screen’s Pull List tab!
It is Wednesday again, always the craziest day at the CLZ HQ. We always try to prepare as many releases up front, which works pretty well for DC, but then lots of variants and exclusives are only revealed on NCBD itself, so that is a challenge each and every week.
This week, we see only 177 actual unique new issues, but because of all the variants, the total number of releases comes at 441! All available in your Add Comics screen now.
Thanks to our translator Frank Silas Kesia Jensen, the Connect web-based software is now available in Danish!
If you are interested in translating Connect to your language, let us know!
The main translations we are looking for at the moment are:
- Norwegian
- Swedish
- Italian
Looks like the slow weeks are over, as today’s NCBD brings us 506 new releases, for a total of 234 actual new unique issues.
The full content team has been working hard to add them all to Core and to complete all entries with as much details as possible. We just finished and you can now find them all in your trusted Add Comics screen.
Thanks to our translators Fernando Carvalho, Milan Sobat and Brano Mazari, the Connect web-based software is now available in 3 extra languages: Portuguese, Serbian and Slovak!
Thanks guys!
If you are interested in translating Connect to your language, let us know!
The main translations we are looking for at the moment are:
- Danish
- Norwegian
- Swedish
- Italian
Wednesday means: New Comics! Looking at our list by release date, we’re seeing 347 new releases today. Not counting variants, the total comes at 155 new unique issues.
Rowdy called in sick today, so completing all of today’s releases was up to Justin and Taco. But the work was just completed. All 347 new releases are now listed in Core, with the actual cover art, variant descriptions, creator information, etc..
New Check Value screen – quickly check CovrPrice values without having to add the comic to your database first
Up until today, the CovrPrice integration has been all about getting values for the comics in your collection. Super useful of course, but… since launch (back in October 2022), a common question from CovrPrice subscribers has been:
“How can I quickly check the value of a comic that is not in my collection?”
And they’re right. There’s other situations in which you may want to check a comic’s actual value, e.g. when you are looking at a comic you may want to buy.
Until now, our recommendation has always been: “Either use the CovrPrice.com website, OR, create a “Temp” collection in your app and add the comic there so that you can see the value”.
But not anymore! Your Comic Connect software now includes a new “Check Value” screen, that lets you quickly check a value of a comic, either by scanning its barcode, or by using the super-fast issue search. Just set it to Raw or Slabbed, pick a grade and go!
Yep, your favorite (and most expensive?) day of the week again: New Comic Book Day. Lots of opportunities to spend more money today, with 172 new issues and a total 389 new releases when counting all variants.
Rowdy, Justin and Taco just finished adding all 389 new releases to our Core online comic database. All entries have been made as complete as possible, with the actual cover art, variant descriptions, creator information (with correct Cover Artists listed for all variants), etc.. etc…
NCBD Week One for 2024! We thought that last years last NCBD was slow, but this week it is even worse. Only 366 new releases. Leaving out variants, the number comes to 156 unique new issues.
Rowdy, Justin and Taco just finished adding all 366 new releases to our Core online comic database. All entries have been made as complete as possible, with the actual cover art, variant descriptions, creator information (with correct Cover Artists listed for all variants), etc.. etc…
Join CLZ Comics on Facebook or Discord
Our “CLZ Comics Community” group on Facebook (over 23,300 members) is a great place for talking about the app, about comics and everything comic related. Our CLZ Comics Discord server (over 1,000 members already!) is more of support forum, to ask questions about the CLZ Comics app or about the Core online comic database.
Click here to join:
Fixed:
- A crash could occur while updating values from CovrPrice
- A crash could occur while updating comics with key information
- While typing in the search box above the folder panel, letters could disappear
- Tablet: when selecting a series, the app would scroll that series to the middle of the folder panel
- “Sniper” button didn’t show if sort order had never been changed in the app
- Update from Core did not download the back cover if available
We’re closing in on the end of the year, so it is time for the
CLZ Comics Wrap-Up 2023!
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 sofware. Using the results of those queries, CLZ Justin created this nice infographic with top 10 lists.
Enjoy!
This it, the very last New Comic Book Day of 2023! This “between X-Mas and New Year” week, we only have half of the CLZ Team at the office, so we were quite happy to see that today was one of the smallest NCBDs of the year, with only 460 new releases. That is, when counting all variants. Without counting variants, the total comes to 181 actual new issues.
Rowdy and Justin did all the work this week and just an hour ago, they finished adding all 460 new releases to our Core online comic database. All entries have been made as complete as possible, with the actual cover art, variant descriptions, creator information (with correct Cover Artists listed for all variants), etc.. etc…