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From: Mark Jackson <mjackson@alumni.caltech.edu>
Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics.strips
Subject: Re: Comics Kingdom reboot - seeing next week's comics?!
Date: Thu, 20 Jun 2024 16:31:15 -0400
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On 2/29/2024 3:07 PM, Mark Jackson wrote:
> The good(ish) news is that they have a new Free Community Subscription 
> tier that doesn't offer (impose) early access, and supports building a 
> Favorites page.  The result still presents the annoying three-at-a-time 
> interface, with no useful control over sort order, but at least it's 
> usable.  Log out, then use another email address to sign up that way.

It looks like "Free Community Subscription" is no longer offered 
(instead they have a 7 day free trial of either of their paid tiers).  I 
set one up back when the new website launched; it still works as 
described above except the favorites page kicks me out after reading 
about a dozen comics.  Not OK.

As far as I can tell (their subscription benefits lists don't mention 
it) having a functional favorites page will now cost $50/year.  (Some 
possibility it comes with the lower tier at $30/year.}  This is up from 
$20/year in 2022 and 2023.  Gocomics currently remains at $15/year for 
many more comics of interest.

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Mark Jackson - https://mark-jackson.online/
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