GlobalComix has announced a completely new digital reader that was rebuilt from the ground up with three goals in mind: performance, intuitiveness, and mobile gesture support. The new reader also improves the vertical reading experience — especially on mobile devices — and introduces new features to give users more information about the comic they’re viewing within the reading experience.

Here is a breakdown of the updates:

• General reading experience: the vertical layout has been completely rewritten, including support for browser-native pan-zoom-pinch
• Improved reader settings: an option to always use the vertical reader layout, and customization options for image spacing and header display
• Comic info panel: a new “series info” pane that lists all the meta-data for the comic and all the available releases for easy back-and-forth navigation
• Crowdfinder integration: comics that have a crowdfunding campaign active now display the details at the top of the reader
• Footer credits & suggested comics: credits to the creator/publisher, as well as suggestions for other comics the user might like, are displayed at the bottom of the comic