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Comictastic

Comictastic - 1.0b3

Comic strip viewer

All Time: (4.4)
Version 1.0b3: (4.7)
Selected Version: 1.0b3
Release Date: 2002-10-12
License: Freeware
Downloads (version 1.0b3): 103
Downloads (all versions): 25,332
Price: $15.00

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Product Description:

Comictastic brings your favorite comics quickly and without any fuss. With Comictastic you can download and view 122 popular comics, all without a Web browser.

Comictastic currently supports the following comics:
  • 9 to 5
  • Adam@Home
  • Animal Crackers
  • Annie
  • Apartment 3-G
  • Baby Blues
  • Baldo
  • Baldo en Espaņol
  • Barney Google and Snuffy Smith
  • Beetle Bailey
  • Between Friends
  • Big Top
  • Bizarro
  • Blondie
  • Bottom Liners
  • Bound and Gagged
  • Brenda Starr
  • Broom Hilda
  • Buckles
  • Calvin and Hobbes
  • Captain RibMan
  • Cathy
  • Cats With Hands
  • Cleats
  • Close to Home
  • Compu-toon
  • Cornered
  • Crankshaft
  • Crock
  • Curtis
  • Dennis the Menace
  • Dick Tracy
  • Diesel Sweeties
  • Doodles
  • Doonesbury
  • Edge City
  • Family Circus
  • Flash Gordon
  • For Better or For Worse
  • FoxTrot
  • Fred Basset
  • Funky Winkerbean
  • Garfield
  • Gasoline Alley
  • Gil Thorp
  • Grin and Bear It
  • Hagar the Horrible
  • Hazel
  • Heart of the City
  • Helen, Sweetheart of the Internet
  • Henry
  • Hi and Lois
  • In the Bleachers
  • James
  • Judge Parker
  • Katzenjammer Kids
  • Kudzu
  • Lola
  • Loose Parts
  • Mallard Fillmore
  • Mandrake the Magician
  • Mark Trail
  • Marvin
  • Mary Worth
  • Meehan Streak
  • Mister Boffo
  • Mixed Media
  • Monkeyhouse
  • Moose & Molly
  • Mr. Potato Head
  • Mutts
  • Non Sequitur
  • Oddly Enough
  • On the Fastrack
  • Overboard
  • P.S. Mueller
  • Pardon my Planet
  • Piranha Club
  • Pluggers
  • Popeye
  • Preteena
  • Prince Valiant
  • Real Life Adventures
  • Redeye
  • Rex Morgan, M.D.
  • Reynolds Unwrapped
  • Rhymes with Orange
  • Safe Havens
  • Sally Forth
  • Sam and Silo
  • Sherman's Lagoon
  • Shoe
  • Six Chix
  • Slylock Fox and Comics for Kids
  • Steve Roper and Mike Nomad
  • Stone Soup
  • Sylvia
  • Tank McNamera
  • The 5th Wave
  • The Amazing Spider-Man
  • The Better Half
  • The Big Picture
  • The Boondocks
  • The Dinette Set
  • The Duplex
  • The Fusco Brothers
  • The Lockhorns
  • The Middletons
  • The New Breed
  • The Norm
  • The Phantom
  • The Quigmans
  • They'll Do It Every Time
  • Tiger
  • Tina's Groove
  • Tom the Dancing Bug
  • Trudy
  • Tumbleweeds
  • Willy 'n Ethel
  • Ziggy
  • Zippy the Pinhead
  • Zits

What's new in this version:

  • Added Diesel Sweeties support (http://www.dieselsweeties.com)
  • Added 57 new dead-tree comics.
  • New icon. Thanks to Christopher Blomquist and Jacques for contributing portions of the icon.
  • Window remembers position and size.
  • Title bar now changes to reflect the selected comic.
  • Added Next/Previous Comic menu items.

Operating System Requirements:

This product is designed to run on the following operating systems:

  • Mac OS X 10.3
  • Mac OS X 10.2

Additional Requirements:

  • Mac OS X 10.2 or later

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Comictastic ReviewStill useful & great - Version: 2.3.2, 4/17/2008 10:11AM PST

macmedix
Comictastic is still my favorite comic scraping software. I use it every morning to read the funnies on my Mac, as I have for several years. Sometimes it is a little tricky to configure it to get the comic I want, but (except for flash) is always does it. I love being able to see my 42 favorite comics without having to wait for & deal with al the blinking spinning ads on the websites. Yes, the developer said he has moved on. But the software still works.

If you don't buy a license, it displays one of several nag comics to ask you to pay. Simply click to the next or any other comic to clear that for awhile.

So everyday, all I have to do is launch Comictastic (automated via Cronnix) and press the down arrow to see each new comic. Those are all cached on my HD, with option of how long to keep, so performance is great, even on a slow internet connection. I haven't found anything that works as well as Comictastic for what it does.
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Comictastic ReviewStill useful & great - Version: 2.3.2, 4/17/2008 10:11AM PST

macmedix
Comictastic is still my favorite comic scraping software. I use it every morning to read the funnies on my Mac, as I have for several years. Sometimes it is a little tricky to configure it to get the comic I want, but (except for flash) is always does it. I love being able to see my 42 favorite comics without having to wait for & deal with al the blinking spinning ads on the websites. Yes, the developer said he has moved on. But the software still works.

If you don't buy a license, it displays one of several nag comics to ask you to pay. Simply click to the next or any other comic to clear that for awhile.

So everyday, all I have to do is launch Comictastic (automated via Cronnix) and press the down arrow to see each new comic. Those are all cached on my HD, with option of how long to keep, so performance is great, even on a slow internet connection. I haven't found anything that works as well as Comictastic for what it does.
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Comictastic ReviewExcellent aggregator - Version: 2.3.2, 9/21/2006 08:09AM PST

(1 of 1 users found this comment useful)

quattleb
This app does a wonderful job of collecting comix for my daily feeding needs. And it has not been abandoned as the recent INTEL update show.
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