Key Collector Comics Mobile App VS Goomics

I feel like it's time to downsize the collection. For selection purposes, is looking up books in the https://keycollectorcomics.com/ and Comic Books Key Issues - GoCollect websites good enough for deciding what might be worth keeping? I have 5 long boxes of the titles I care about, and I figure the other 5 can go. Source: 11 months ago

If you're just starting out collecting, I recommend finding a couple on-going series that interest you and work on filling out the back catalog for those. As you read more comics you'll start identifying writers and artists that you like, which can send you down a rabbit hole, and you'll pick up references to older storylines that you can try and hunt down. If you're collecting for the sake of collecting rather... Source: about 1 year ago

Most of the notes are from keycollectorcomics.com. Source: over 1 year ago

I am by no means doing this with real hopes of getting rich, but keycollectorcomics.com has been my source lately. The subscriber additions sound helpful, but I havent signed up for that yet. Source: almost 3 years ago

> What a shitty culture Google has fostered. If you're ever curious how exactly Google shoved unethical technologies on employees that didn't want to develop unethical technologies, I highly recommend reading Goomics, comics made internally by a Google employee who left the company in 2021. It reveals how there had been employee protest against developing tech for the military purposes, as well as protest against... - Source: Hacker News / about 2 months ago

The more we learn about the current corporate culture of Google, the easier it is to understand why things are the way they are. We know now that launching products, no matter how redundant, is what gets you promoted, not fixing bugs in existing products. We also know that there are teams that support mission-critical portions of Android that are deeply under-resourced, primarily because there's no incentive to... Source: over 1 year ago

> From the outside, a major source of Google's inefficiency seems to be an endless cycle of product churn and duplication, with the worst example being the 10-plus messaging apps Google has produced since Pichai took over in 2015. Our best insight into Google office politics comes from a series of previously internal-only Google comics [1] by Manu Cornet, which frequently describe launching a new product at... - Source: Hacker News / almost 2 years ago

Google is a company that was always super profitable, but only became evil around 2010-2015. As reflected by Goomics. Source: about 2 years ago

As mentioned in the article, they're available on https://goomics.net/ Super cute comics, though there's a lot of references to internal Google culture or figures that I had to look up at times to get the joke. - Source: Hacker News / almost 3 years ago