Comment 3 for bug 480182

This is fixed in rev. 1494 and available in the new testing PPA.

I refer to the main point of this bug report that some comics are not shown or can't be installed. Some of the preinstalled comics were outdated. Alas feeds are changing from time to time and the URL or image index has to be updated.

Adding new comics shoud have always worked. As Moses Palmér pointed out you may have to try both strips if the applet lets you choose between two. The applet previously didn't download the comic immediately after adding it, that's why it may have seemed that it didn't add it at all.

As Mark Lee already wrote the other points you made would be separate bugs. I'll close this particular bug report for the main point as it's in the title. The other things would be Wishlist items, they are currently not supported, like a higher resolution image (this needs general support in the applet and plugins for each website with highres images), different date chooser or date chooser for comics that are not provided as feeds.