comic book reader for PDF format?

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tingo

All my books and comics are organized with Calibre - great.
I usually make sure to buy books in epub format, and comics in cbr / cbz format.
But sometimes you can't choose - and end up with PDF format. Yuck.
For PDF documents, I normally use xpdf to view them. The problem is that it isn't a good book (or comics) reader. No or bad pagination, slow file loading and so on.
And calibre's built-in e-book viewer (which is great for epub format) takes so long opening a pdf file that I haven't found out if it works at all.

I want a mean, lean and quick PDF book reader.

So, for those of you who read books and / or comics in PDF format (on FreeBSD) - which program do you use?
 
There's also zathura-pdf-mupdf which works well for me on pdfs, epubs, and (I think) cbrs. I just don't read that many comics and can't swear that I've used it on cbr. For me, it opens right away. I have a little script, more of an alias really, but it works well for me.
Code: 
#!/bin/sh
zathura 2> /dev/null "${1}" &
So I'll run it on something with zath.sh my.pdf and it opens right away.

But for comics, you're better off, I think, using Charlie_ 's advice since I can't swear that I've used this on comics. I think I have but am not sure.
 
So far, just muPDF seems to be the best option for PDFs. Its quite fast. The downsides is there doesn't be any way to save settings, every time I open a new PDF file I have to change settings to my liking again.
(And forget about readers for other formats like .epub, .cbr / .cbz I already have those)
 
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