App Profile: Star Trek Comics

Dunder Mifflinne

Rating: 1/5

This was formerly a five star review. You guys have really made a mess of what used to be a perfect comics app. The old version got me back into reading comics for the first time since the Nineties. I've spent hundreds of dollars on comics in this, the DC and the Marvel apps. But now you've broken the experience and to make matters worse you post clearly fake reviews saying "love it! The new app is much better! Stop complaining!" Until you return to the original comixology version with in app purchases you won't get another dime from me. And I'm sure I'm not even remotely alone in that.

renrut57

Rating: 3/5

I downloaded the application to read the new comics based on the movie. The first one displayed the cost of $3.99. There was no indication of the number of pages. It turned out it was a simple scan of the pages of the comics. The DC, Marvel, and other comics allow you to double click on a frame and get a full zoom of the frame and advance to the next frame with a finger swipe. This one requires you to zoom in to a frame by spreading your fingers apart like you would do to zoom in on a web page or picture. To go to the next fram you have to zoom out or scroll around to see it it's to the right or below. For $3.99 I expected an actual digital comic. I would also have liked to know before I purchased it and how many pages it was. Also, it's a re-run of the "Where No Man has Gone Before" episode. AND it's not the complete episode and continued at the end. At the most, this should have cost $1.99 per comic. $3.99 is a rip-off in my opinion. Had I known this and been given a proper description of the comic and its number of pages I would never have wasted the money.

Scot Solida

Rating: 3/5

The freebies reeled me in. I've been a Star Trek fan for nearly forty years and a comics reader for nearly as long, so this was an inevitable purchase. With so many weak Star Trek tie-ins over the years, my hopes were not especially high. However IDW's comics have turned out to be well-written and often very well-drawn. More importantly, the involvement of known Trek contributors lend a bit of authenticity to the writing. These are good stories that do no dishonor to the established history of the shows. However, it must be said that the downloads are problematic. Slow and prone to failure, I have been unable to retrieve a couple that I accidentally deleted, due to timeouts during downloading. My wireless connection is not the fastest in the world, often barely chugging along on impulse power, but this is the only comic app to give me these kind of issues. Will I keep trying? You better believe it. The comics themselves have proven worth the hassles.