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Digital comics have been an important part of the mobile space since the iPhone first took off. While the early versions of reader apps weren't always the best, in the last eight years we've come quite a long way, seeing an evolution right alongside smartphones and tablets to provide better experiences for the readership. This week, Google is shaking things up with its Google Books app, introducing new tools to make it a better space for comics.

If you've ever completed a Google profile, you may have noticed that the system asks you an unusual question before completing your registration: What superpower would you want the most? Apparently, this is something that the Google engineers have been trying to hash out amongst themselves, and like any good nerds, they have taken a silly, theoretical question and analyzed it in quantifiable, seri

There's a lot of fun to be had with Google predictive text, where you start typing something into the Google search bar, and it tries to guess the full phrase the searches of millions of other people. Now, this can be very helpful when you're typing in a very common phrase like, say, the old Spider-Man axiom "With great power comes great responsibility...

On Thursday, Google adorned its logo with DC Comics superheroes, and now it's launched a massive list of comic book Google themes that you can choose from when use the search engine. They run the gamut from the biggest superfranchises to the indiest of the indie, so you'll find Superman and Batman on the roster right near Jim Woodring and Jaime Hernandez...

Comic-Con has officially begun, and Google is celebrating the event by 1) giving everyone in the convention center free Wi-Fi (thanks!) and 2) posting a new Google logo drawn by DC superstar Jim Lee, where Wonder Woman, Green Lantern, Batman, Robin, and Plastic Man strike a pose atop the name of everyone's favorite search engine...

The work of sequential art scholar Scott McCloud includes some of the most respected teaching tools in comics, particularly his seminal graphic novel series, "Understanding Comics," "Reinventing Comics" and "Making Comics." And so when Gizmodo decided to parody Google's new operating system by hijacking a sample of McCloud's 2008 online handbook for the Google Chrome