The COUNTDOWN to the MOTION PICTURE EVENT of 2009 BEGINS HERE in this EXCLUSIVE COMICS PREQUEL to the upcoming BLOCKBUSTER “Star Trek”! PLUS – for the FIRST TIME IDW’s “Star Trek: Countdown” series is available DAY and DATE with its print counterpart.
Pick up “Star Trek: Countdown #3” at your local retailer today for $3.99…or you can buy it RIGHT NOW on you iPhone, iPod touch or Google Android device for only $0.99…the choice is yours.
Star Trek: Countdown #1 (of 4)
Full Color | 90 screens | mini-series
JJ Abrams, Roberto Orci & Alex Kurtzman (story) Tim Jones & Mike Johnson (w) David Messina (a & c)
JJ Abrams, Roberto Orci, and Alex Kurtzman present the origin of Nero, the mysterious Romulan who will ultimately threaten the survival of the entire universe. Don’t miss this first chapter in the story that brings STAR TREK back to the big screen! Find more Star Trek comics in the iTunes App Store from IDW Publishing and iVerse Media!
Click Here to Purchase for $0.99
Star Trek: Countdown #2 (of 4)
Full Color | 87 screens | mini-series
JJ Abrams, Roberto Orci & Alex Kurtzman (story) Tim Jones & Mike Johnson (w) David Messina (a & c)
STAR TREK makes a triumphant return to the big screen this summer, but your first look at the upcoming blockbuster can only be found in this exclusive comics tie-in presented by JJ Abrams, Roberto Orci, and Alex Kurtzman! The origin of the villainous Nero continues here as tensions between the Romulan and Vucan empires reach a breaking point, with the fate of the universe hanging in the balance!
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Star Trek: Countdown #3 (of 4)
Full Color | 82 screens | mini-series JJ Abrams, Roberto Orci & Alex Kurtzman (story) Tim Jones & Mike Johnson (w) David Messina (a & c)
STAR TREK makes a triumphant return to the big screen this summer, but your first look at the upcoming blockbuster can only be found in this exclusive comics tie-in presented by JJ Abrams, Roberto Orci, and Alex Kurtzman! The Romulan villain Nero continues his vengeful crusade against the Federation. Don’t miss any of the action as the clock ticks down to the premiere of STAR TREK this summer!
It’s been another big week at iVerse, and we have A LOT to talk about. Here are the latest releases for your mobile platform of choice!
BUT FIRST 
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Now…back to the Update…
New Releases for iPhone
We have two new FREE titles this week for you to try out —
Written and Illustrated by Keith Champagne, Andy Smith
Carson Deeds is a 17-year-old, emotionally troubled time bomb with a loaded shotgun underneath his bed and a list of classmates firmly in his aim. When a mysterious suit of armor falls into Carson’s unstable hands, he finds himself wielding the power to live out every revenge fantasy he’s ever dreamt against a world that he feels has done him wrong.
Click Here to Download Issue One for FREE!
If you like it, you can immediately purchase the rest of the mini-series on your iPhone right now!
Click here to purchase issue 2
Click Here to purchase issue 3
Click Here to purchase issue 4
134 Screens | Full Color | Ongoing Series
Writer(s): Jay Faerber Penciller(s): Mahmud A. Asrar Inker(s): Mahmud A. Asrar Colorist(s): Ron Riley Letterer(s): Charles Pritchett Cover Artist(s): Mahmud A. Asrar Ron Riley
Captain Dynamo has died, leaving Tower City nearly defenseless. Maddie Warner, Captain Dynamo’s Widow, has found the five illegitimate children of Captain Dynamo and exposed them to the same radiation causing them each to adopt one of their father’s five powers. The five work together to defeat a group calling themselves “The Veil.” They stop the Veil, but Visionary is captured. Gage uses his telepathy to lead them to Visionary where they stop the Veil and their leader, Superior.
Click Here to Download the First Issue for FREE
If you enjoy the first issue of Dynamo 5 be sure and check out issue 2…
97 Screens | Full Color | Ongoing Series
Writer(s): Jay Faerber Penciller(s): Mahmud A. Asrar Inker(s): Mahmud A. Asrar Colorist(s): Ron Riley Letterer(s): Charles Pritchett Cover Artist(s): Mahmud A. Asrar Ron Riley
Image’s new super-team series continues as the Dynamo 5 kids get to know each other while fighting Whiptail, their father’s reptilian arch-enemy. Meanwhile, Captain Dynamo’s widow finds herself with some unwanted attention from F.L.A.G., and Scatterbrain learns Visionary’s darkest secret.
Click Here to purchase Issue Two!
New Releases for Google Android!
We have several releases for Google Android this week as well.
In alphabetical order they are:
Ghost Whisperer: The Haunted #1 for $0.99
Ghost Whisperer: The Haunted #2 for $0.99
Ghost Whisperer: The Haunted #3 for $0.99
Wrath of the Titans #1 for FREE
Wrath of the Titans #2 for $0.99
Wrath of the Titans #3 for $0.99
Wrath of the Titans #4 for $0.99
Also don’t forget you can save all your comics to an SD Card on your Google Android devices, then view them in our FREE iVerse Collector App.
Also – a note about your memory usage on your phone. There is a known bug in the Android OS that doesn’t always free up your memory once you delete an App. This is NOT a problem with the iVerse Collector App or the iVerse Comics. You can find more info about the bug here:See the details of the bug here.
It is one of the drawbacks of the low amount of storage provided by the T-Mobile G1. Thankfully, all of the future Android devices that will be launching this year will not have the same storage limitations.
The biggest complaint we see from users of iVerse Digital Comics is that each comic is sold as an individual application on both the Apple and Google’s platforms.
There are many reasons for selling the comics as individual apps. When it comes to Apple, their approval process is strict, and impossible to predict. If we were to create one application that had all the comics in it – and Apple were to decide that one of those comics we released as “offensive” in some way…BOOM – No more iVerse Comics on iPhone.
Apple could pull the plug and leave us completely out of business.
As you can imagine- we’d really like to avoid that.
On the Google Android side of things, Google doesn’t allow a “store within a store” approach to their Marketplace. So we can’t build an application and then sell comics in it, effectively cutting them out of the loop.
So what’s the solution?
Well, on Google Android the solution is called the “iVerse Comic Collector”.
Each comic on Android can be saved to an SD Card. Once you have saved it, you can delete the original file, and view ALL of your saved comics in the Comic Collector Application. This saves users space on their G1s, and allows for all comics to be collected into one application, while still following the guidelines laid out by the store owners.
Hopefully we’ll be able to devise a way to do this on the iPhone as well in the near future – but Apple’s restrictions to what we can and can’t do on the iPhone are making that rather difficult. We’re working on it…and we’ll keep you updated.
If you have an Android powered phone, please let us know what you think of the Collector App, and what we can do to make it better. We’re always looking to improve your user experience, and greatly appreciate your feedback.