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- Lumiras, on 10/12/2007, -1/+17Yes, we do need a comics section in Digg
- skimmas, on 10/12/2007, -1/+16This is great. :)
By the way:
These are comics in a compressed archive. For Windows, download the free program CDisplay ( http://www.geocities.com/davidayton/CDisplay ). Or simply rename them (CBR to RAR, CBZ to ZIP) and open with your usual archive program, such as WinRAR or WinZIP. (text from: http://btfaq.com/serve/cache/45.html) - skamper, on 10/12/2007, -2/+13We found a flaw in the Digg system. This should clearly go under the Entertainment section but there is nothing for Comics/Books in that area.
- dkm201, on 10/12/2007, -1/+10Don't DL comics on bittorrent... The comic book industry already barely squeaks by.
- variable, on 10/12/2007, -2/+10Comix is one of the best for Linux: http://comix.sourceforge.net/
Oh, and here's an alternative and more recent CDisplay page: http://www.cdisplay.net/
Geocities sites are notorious for failing fast. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -4/+12Preacher = FTW
- geekzapoppin, on 10/12/2007, -1/+8I hate to be a wet blanket, but don't expect this site to last long. The copyrights on all of these are still very much in effect and Warner Bros. will be on them like a pack of dingos on a baby. Still, it's cool while it lasts. Some nice obscure stuff there.
- Armagetto, on 10/12/2007, -2/+9Blindly saying that one company is better than another is kinda lame. If you're looking at the early 60's to the early 80's, then I'd give the nod to Marvel. However, during the mid to late 80's DC was putting out stuff like The Watchmen and Dark Knight, while Marvel was knee deep in the Jim Shooter era and shovelling out dreck like Secret Wars 2, New Universe and West Coast Avengers. Marvel made some improvements in the 90's but DC still had all the better writers like Grant Morrison, Warren Ellis, Mark Millar and Garth Ennis. It wasn't until Marvel hired Joe Quesada that they began to turn things around and attracted some talent finally. See, up until that point, they could make creators some good offers, but they always fell short on the editorial end, often leaving creators feeling burned. For years Marvel had a knack for alienating writers and artists over their hardline editorial policies. In one case, they gave Warren Ellis a greenlight for a mature readers revamp of Satanna, only to reject it based on content. It was for reasons like this that Quesada basically had to beg to get top talent to consider coming back to the house of ideas.
- LegendarySock, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6SIN CITY
- McMultiverse, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6Oh, DC pretty vigorously defends all of their IP. Their characters are EVERYTHING to them, even the obscure ones. 52 is proof enough, what with Mr. Mind and the Metal Men popping up.
- mdoom, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5Do you have a source of this? this interests me...
- variable, on 10/12/2007, -2/+7Hopefully people will share this collection on bittorrent. There must be a lot of people who would like to have all of these without killing aibq.com's server.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5"What was your favourite comic book?"
The original Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles by Eastman and Laird. - plaes, on 10/12/2007, -4/+8Linux users can use cbrPager ( http://www.jcoppens.com/soft/cbrpager/index.en.php ) of GUatu ( http://guatu.sourceforge.net/ ), but I guess most of the users have already figured out how to view them ;)
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4OH... almost forgot:
Cerebus the Aardvark FTW! - gr8whitesavage, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5Wow, that's great that we all have an opportunity to see these classic books. I know that I otherwise would have never had a chance to see the early episodes of ManBat, Super Boy, etc.
- ozguralaz, on 10/12/2007, -4/+8What was your favourite comic book?
- hazard, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5They dont barely squeak by, thats a lie. Comics are more popular than ever, almost as popular as when superman died. More people are going to Comic-Cons than ever before. And with Marvel making a movie for every character, how can they be squeaking by? All the mainstream events IC, Civil War, House of M, 52 are all doing very well so I would say your assumption is outdated.
http://www.newsarama.com/marketreport/june06sales.html
For the first six months of 2006, the Top 300 comics from each month have sold a combined 39.43 million units, an increase of 8% over the 36.55 million copies sold in the period in the previous year. - Lunarshadow, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Deadpool!
- octosam, on 10/12/2007, -4/+7I love comics. I grew up reading and enjoying them. But unfortunately, the present comics are garish and will give strain to ones eyes with their brilliant color. My favourate comics (of ester years ) are as follows:
Mandrake the magician - Loved each and every issue of it.
Phantom
Flash Gordon
Donald duck
Mickey mouse
Superman
Batman ... Just to name those that come to my mind now. But there were many more that I enjoyed. - sudonim, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Preacher all the way. You can't beat crazy fetish parties with sex detectives and heroin.
- Bradillac, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Actually, DC have already come out and said that their comic book copyrights don't extend to the internet... that's why Marvel, Dark Horse, and Image all have online comics but DC don't.
- Steeple, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4SHARK-MAN!
er.. full disclosure, i drew it!
http://thrillhousecomics.com - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Thank you! Its great to see some of my childhood comics again!
'DownloadThemAll' FireFox extension works great! Come to daddy. - tjlsmith, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4I agree - lets torrent that quick!!!
- TruthElixirX, on 10/12/2007, -21/+24Anything not by DC. :D
- mdoom, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3I've recently heard from a friend about a service in development for legally downloading comic books in a digital format. I think like a pay per download business model. Hopefully things go well for that...I know I would pay a small fee to own older comics that I haven't had a chance to read. I'm sure just getting content is an issue for them.
- matriculated, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3The same as any media with copyrights attached.
- SakuyasLove, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Batman and or Robin
- Lumiras, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4Yeah, I would say that comics are doing really well right now, but that doesn't mean we should just steal ***** as we want to.
I don't buy a lot of music and movies mainly because of the fact that the quality of both of those things are quickly going down the drain. On the other hand, comics are getting better and better every year - buglord, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4A good program for cbr files on the Mac is FFview:
http://www.feedface.com/projects/ffview.html - monological, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I doubt it is even on there, but my favorite comic at the moment would have to be 'Ex Machina'... its unique, powerful, and incredibly draw and executed. plus it won a few 2005 Eisners. check it out: http://www.machinacomics.com/
- McMultiverse, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3Silver Age Superman was the one with all the wackiness.
- hryanl, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Site apparently is down. Anyone get a mirror of all the stuff? There's some nice older stuff I'd like to read. Heh.
- McMultiverse, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3I'd only give the slight advantage to Marvel from 1960-79, only because they had Jack Kirby longer. Today, though, both companies are producing tons of great books. High-quality writing and fantastic art. It's a new golden age, as far as I'm concerned.
- buglord, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4dugg and wgetted
- intilli4, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2The site has been dugg and is unavailable
- Nightfall, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4Lobo was great back in the day!
Batman and Green Lantern were also great.
Currently, the comics have taken a sharp downturn to be honest. I was reading them back about 14 years ago and they were great back then. - duddles, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Sandman Vol 7, Brief Lives... which I just finished a few hours ago.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I still have all my comics when I was younger. I was a big fan of Marvel and Image comics. There was also those ninja comics my brother and I liked. He was into Ninja Turtles (originals and the ones done by Archie comics) . I was into Zen Intergalatic Ninja. Space alien ninjas for the win.
- graywave, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2uh, no, collections are usually shrinkwrapped
- trimsheenapple, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2For those looking for a torrent try searching at one of the major search sites (Isohunt, torrentspy etc). You'll find a ***** load.
- merrington, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Digg must have killed it. All I get is "Welcome to VDeck" Site Unavailable.
- thund3rstruck, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I wish I could find an archive of Heavy Metal Magazine comics. I have been looking forever, and I just don't have time to scan them all.
btw, comix is a fantastic program for reading comics - Neumann, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2If nothing else, thanks for putting the link for the comic reader for Mac, I was looking for one for quite some time.
Comics have been squeaking by for over a decade, and while Marvel and DC may be making good dosh with their liscencing rights, the comics themselves aren't that cost-effective, after publishing and distribution costs, the artists get very little scratch. Not to mention the insane amount of work that goes into it. You have to remember that Marvel and DC are only two publishers and there are boatloads of comic writers. And the number of people attending Comic Con doesn't mean that comics are getting any more popular, many go for the anime, movies, toys, and other offerings... comics have actually been taking a back seat to those for years. The smaller comic creators actually make more money doing comissions and selling original page art than actually selling the books in some cases.
As for legal issues for the older comics, the resold old comics have no money going towards the comic company, but they want to maintain the rights for the republishing rights, the collected novels and so on. And honestly, i don't want archive books of a lot of the crazier, lesser-known titles... I think having the old ones on bad paper with the silly adds and the ruined colour are a ton of fun... unless a comic really tickles my fancy I only need to read one issue (that's part of why I like the Amalgam comics, you didn't have to do any extra reading, really).
I actually scan in a lot of my comics because space in my room is at a premium and I lost half my collection the last time I moved... I want to have a digital archive so I don't have to worry about that. - MadLeper, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Magnus, Robot Fighter by Gold Key comics was my favorite. I recall reading a lot of Scrooge McDuck as well.
- iEvan, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2FFview is fast and freeware.
If you don't mind a $25 shareware fee, also check out ComicBookLover for OS X. It has lots of great features, uses technologies like CoreData and CoreImage and is also a Universal Binary.
http://www.bitcartel.com/comicbooklover/index.html - AceSuperfly, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Preacher
- PrplHaze, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2I'd digg it if there was a mirror!
- brotherjohn1234, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2i'd digg, if there is a torrent
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