Mangaman

October 7, 2011 8:37 pm damn good point. People seem to have the problem with establishing a situation in binaries. "IT'S GOOD, NO IT'S EVIL" when this situation (like everything else) are in shades of gray. Am I approving of piracy? No. But is the opposition to piracy providing any strong alternatives to those younglings who are CLEARLY torrenting weekly books we buy? Not really. My advice is, get ready to work your ass off to appeal to a demographic once you've introduced them to your characters through other mediums like film and videogames (ie: Arkham Asylum/City and MvC3).

October 7, 2011 8:34 pm Honestly Oroboros is the only one in the bunch that actually uploads obscure-ass comics from the 70s and 80s that I have YET to see on ebay or hardcovered so his leave was definitely a sad loss.

October 6, 2011 12:35 am Same. I really prefer reading them on my hands.

October 6, 2011 12:33 am 1. I found ifanboy on youtube once I started reading comics again because of megaupload links of what I thought were pdf'd versions of marvel online comics (later discovered to be torrents).

October 6, 2011 12:31 am I'd like to chime in on this for a second and propose an even more disturbing question. Do you think that one's issue on the stance (you @debaser17, for example) might be influenced by the exclusivity of purchasing comics. I believe that one of the stronger reasons why people (young people in particular) pirate comics is because of the lack of funds to do so on their own and thus are weeded out of getting their comics from LCS's. While at the same time "old men" such as us (those 18 and over if you will) have this exclusive ability to purchase comics weekly and can discuss them online as a result. This is just a theory, feel free to dissect it further because I feel like it started growing legs after the popularity of superheroes what with the DC cartoons and X-men anime being highly regarded in the torrenter teenage demographic. This is very similar to the death of anime and manga in America. It has very similar patterns and I believe deserves some discussion.

October 3, 2011 8:32 pm If it weren't for the uploaders I would've never gotten back into comics. I spend a good $150 bucks on comics in a slow month. So I wouldn't necessarily say comic uploaders are just as bad as thieves. I would put it more in a gray area, just like manga scanlations. Sure there'll be people who read it and never buy it, but the work get's out there and still produces sales from people out of a group demographic that would have NEVER bought the book otherwise. I guess what I'm saying is that people need to think a little more past the standard internet sentiment of "RAWR THEY'RE WORSE THAN CANCER!" Which isn't what I'm saying that you're doing @BALD but I am saying it is a popular sentiment to have that I hope changes.

October 3, 2011 7:53 pm Jim, if you want to find pirates you should start pirating yourself. That's always the best way to get accepted into the community. Especially if you upload to spanish forums which seems to be the main hub of all the downloading.

September 20, 2011 7:50 pm Maybe you're right, a lot of things I've liked in the past have been canceled or failed financially because of my rare taste. But then again maybe you're wrong because as a person who no longer has HBO (and doesn't watch tv at all) as well as being someone who doesn't have the time to read a novel during short commutes this is the perfect medium I've been waiting for to paraphrase the story. Yes it might not be what the original writer intended but I can live with that.

September 9, 2011 7:30 pm Ok Josh. I get the sign. That sucks. That is bullshit customer service NO shop should ever resort to. But if two guys call themselves "fags," there's really nothing that store can do about it. Just like if a store has a bunch of people who smell like cigarettes just because they smoked a few minutes ago. It's the same type of annoyance that is out of the shop's hands merely because they don't see it as something that hurts their sales. Now if you can convince them that it would then things would change and no one else will suffer from hearing that.

September 9, 2011 7:22 pm WOW. Finally, a Lex Luther I FUCKING HATE (with his fat pretentious ass). As well as a Superman I can actually get behind! If the book keeps heading down this direction it will be like one of my favorite manga out there (not gonna say it, it'll jinx it).