There are certain programs and apps that just beg for you to get creative with them. You may think you have no use for them, but then you start playing around, and suddenly you’re having all kinds of fun working them into your standard software routines. Comic Life is such a program, and now that it’s on the iPad, it’s easier than ever to justify that initial purchase.

When Apple announced the inclusion of the cameras on the iPad 2, my first thought was that a lot of great iPhone photo apps would be more fun to use once they make their way to the iPad’s larger screen. I didn’t consider ports of Macintosh photo apps, but that’s just what plasq has done with Comic Life for iPad, their award winning software for creating, reading and sharing digital photo comics.

I must say that Comic Touch is a very unique application for the iPhone/iPod touch, and does a very good job at editing and adding comical effects to pictures directly on the iPhone or iPod touch. Comic Touch is a mixture of plasq’s two other apps for Mac OS X—Skitch and Comic Life—as it allows users to edit images with a variety of different effects, including Bulge, Dent, Squeeze, Stretch, and Light. It also offers the ability to add speech bubbles and captions to a photo to give it the feel of a comic.

Learn more after the break.