What are good Episode preview images / thumbnails?

@ameoname Ameoname
Sat, 06 Aug 2016 09:57:59 +0000

@ameoname wrote:

Hello ^^

→ How important are the Episode preview thumbnails for you guys? I mean do you care about the images in a sense that you would actively decide to start reading a page based on its Episode preview pic?
Currently I'm using the previews from a strictly structural point of view. What I mean by that is that I would paste the same preview pic "Chapter 1" for all Episodes belonging to the frist chapter. I like it because I can see at a glance where a chapter starts / ends. But then again I also write the chapter's name + number in the Episode title...
And today I checked out Tapastic on a tablet ("10) and there comics don't display the latest page automatically like in the desktop view. I can only see the Episode pics and since they're not showing any parts from the actual pages I could imagine some readers would feel a little bit lost (which defeats the purpose of my strategy to upload the same pic for all Episodes belonging to a chapter XD).

I don't have a smartphone (I live in the stone ages, sorry XD but soon things might change O_O) and unfortunatelly the Tapastic app won't install on my Tablet (it says "No eligable devices found") so I can't see how things look in the app. I'm guessing only Episode thumbnails as well?

So, what do you think? How important are the Episode preview pics? Do you need / want to see parts of the actual Episode page in the thumbnail?

PS: In case you want to see what I mean here's a link to my comic with the cloned Episode preview pics.