I am not going to link to it myself for my own reasons, but if you want to find it, it is out there. These sites have essentially any comic you want, all in scanned digital form.
There are specialized readers, downloaders, sites full of everything you could want, and even forums for requests. It had pretty much every comic you could want from a historical standpoint. First appearances of every one of the major characters in comicdom and plenty of offbeat, but influential comics too. Download after download, miniseries after miniseries, creator run after creator run.
I was in comic heaven. Missed part of Infinite Crisis? It's right there. Missed the Moon Knight issues of Civil War? Click here to download. The first or so appearances of the Legion of Superheroes? Got it. I was now 80 gigs deep in comic history. Then came the problem. I felt bad about it. I felt like I was cheating someone, but couldn't figure out exactly who. I didn't download new comics, I still go to my local comic shop every Wednesday like a cow to financial slaughter.
My pull list is 15 comics deep counting Countdown 4 times , that's around 50 bucks a month, and that does not include all the specials, Civil War tie-ins, 52, Countdown, etc. I can hear it now, "Suck it up, it's only a few hundred dollars a year, if you can't afford that, you need to rethink your hobbies. And your unemployed gainfully though! A job is not a problem for me, the ones I want just don't pay more than my unemployment check I am guaranteed for the next 5 months.
So, yeah, I can afford my pull list, but it gets harder and harder to justify buying the plethora of other comics that come out each month that aren't on it. Especially now with my daughter coming into her own as a comic fangirl. She's 5 and asks about the "Fantassick Fo" constantly, her favorite easily being Thing. Action figures, Archie comics Wolverine bobbleheads add up pretty quick, too.
I love Wizard mag, she loves ToyFare, so I get them both. It is totally worth it. So where is all this rambling going to? The multitudes of damn near necessary comics that I can't afford every week are sitting there free. I refuse to make excuses about being able to read classic comics I would otherwise be completely incapable of reading. I was too young to read Neal Adams on Green Lantern. Batman: The Dark Knight escaped me at the time as a cultural milestone. I have read both of these now and am a better and bigger comic fan for it.
But downloading the new ones bothers me. It agonizes me sometimes because I have always followed them and would love to continue but I just can't afford to add any more. Issue 47 however, crosses over with Countdown. Now I am fully aware that it is the type of story that it is not necessary to read to comprehend Countdown, but we all know that it is difficult to knowingly ignore a comic that is tied into an ongoing series like that.
DC and Marvel know it too. So I decided I was not going to buy it. I downloaded it. And I still can't figure out who I am cheating. Adam Beechen, the writer? I don't think they get paid per comic sold, and besides, I wasn't going to buy it. DC Comics? As I said, I wasn't going to buy it. In a small way, yes, there is something about holding a comic in your hands and feeling the paper and seeing the richness of the color, something the scans have a hard time reproducing on a laptop.
But I can get over myself. So who got cheated, who got robbed? The way I see it, no one, in fact, I can almost see a benefit to all this. Enough of the Problem, now onto the Solution If you could preview a comic other than standing at the rack for a small price, would you? I know I would. Why can't the comic companies come up with a simple interface, like Itunes, and use it to allow us to either 1 preview a comic in hopes we would buy it or 2 outright sell back issues online?
Music labels are able to allow you to download a track or even an album full of songs that "decay" on your hard drive. They come with a preset amount of time that they are available to you. After that, they erase themselves. What people generally say to denigrate this is "Those hackers will always come up with something to defeat anything we do".
And you know what, they are right. Hackers will always come up with a way to defeat something. But if they are willing to do that, they won't be paying either way. So why not ignore them, and concentrate on the people who are willing to pay?
Come up with a user friendly interface, a user friendly comic book reader or use current formats available and buy them out and offer only comics that are upcoming arbitrary number 3 weeks old. Keep them available for another 3 weeks or longer, but take them offline eventually.
Me personally, if I do want to read a story that intersects with another one, like Teen Titans 47, I don't really have a problem waiting a couple weeks or so. Not being able to read it though because of my personal financial situation is unacceptable to me. Watermark them or something so they can't be reproduced and pirated.
But don't charge the full amount. For one, they are back issues at this point, and two, I would have to believe that the amount of work you put into it would be cheaper than distribution across the country. Give us a break. Now I know that some readers are comic shop owners and see this as an attack on there business, but I don't believe it is at all.
If I go download Teen Titans 47 and enjoy it more than another comic on my pull list, I will replace it, or wife willing, add it. Also, I simply would not pay 2 to 3 dollars every month to buy a comic a few weeks late that is available to me instore. Like I have said, there is an intimate experience in reading a comic book that is in your hands.
So, what say you, The Comic Rack faithful all 5 of you! I kid, I kid. I know you are not the most commenting people, but I would love to hear what you have to say about this. I personally think that digital comics, done the right way, could be an important part of the future of the medium. If you got this far, thank you. Inked by Adam Silfven at PM. When I had greater availability of choices in London I wouldnt download only recently I became aware of it anyway.
On the other hand, some comics I really like have usually long stretches of runs that suck either artistically, the writing or both,lol. So why should I buy them if they are unanimously crap that is why comic reviews sites are out there to find out right?
I have come to a kind of compromise at the moment. Comics I enjoy and they have decent current runs I try to buy to the best of my ability. The rest will be downloads until they clean up their act. One thing the industry could do was to provide some of the oldest comics of past runs of titles who the hell would buy witchblade 3 now unless he was a huge fan for free along with unique once in a year free comics of current runs of titles.
Then the sceptic readers would have a first introduction to characters and arcs and they could make up their mind better. Conclusively, there is no substitute for the "in your hands" original comic book but with so many comics around, publishers will have to stop tossing some meaningless titles around just because they can. Enough bad titles out there can put someone off from purchasing comics and then the downloading starts Interesting suggestions you make by the way!
I cannot pretend to be an afficianado of comics but its great to see something written so concisely and with such enthusiasm! I rather respect the loyalty you've shown toward the world of comics. I'm a rather undeniable comic geek, I visit my local comic book store every Wednesday, and then check their upcoming shipments for the following week every Friday.
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