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  Giant-size, ad-free-ish A* comics for allOct 16, 2012 8:22 AM PDT | url
 
Added 1 new A* page:Particularly since entering this latest phase of experimenting with pure black and white in the comic, I've kind of been obsessively scrutinizing it, and I couldn't help noticing that the colorful, flashing ads beneath it were making that more difficult than it should be. So I've removed them, and since that constituted one of the main features of A*'s subscription service, I've gone ahead and made the other main subscription feature--large, 1080p HD-sized versions of the comics--free to everyone as well; you can switch to the king-sized version of the comic, and back again, with the link beneath the comic's lower-right-hand corner.
 
Making that stuff free made the subscription service pretty much obsolete, so I've ended it and refunded the lovely readers who'd subscribed. Incidentally, I also realized that the browser cookie that saves your preferred comic size setting wasn't lasting through browser restarts, which is embarrassing since that was a feature I'd mentioned as a selling point of the subscriptions on several occasions--and could have sworn I'd tested successfully multiple times! Dah. Anyway that's fixed in this free-for-everyone version, so if you set the comic size to the large size, close the browser, then start it up and come back to the site at some point, it'll come right up in your preferred viewing size, like it was always *supposed* to for subscribers.
 
There's still one horizontal ad at the bottom of the comic and news archive pages. The social networking bar that used to be under the ads that were under the comic--with links to A*'s Twitter, deviantART, Facebook, G+, Tumblr, etc--has moved to the "about" page, which has also been reorganized and tidied up a bit.
 
I hope everyone's happy with the changes (and that you'll let me know if you aren't!!). I feel like this brings the comic back to its original design intent, which was that of being a very intense, focused, cinema-format experience without colorful distractions, where you could really concentrate, if you wanted, on each panel. I think it will make new visitors much more inclined to stick around and actually read through it--but I guess we'll see!
 
 
 
 
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