what percentage of comics do you buy relative to what you download?

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just curious as i'm pretty new to the whole KOMPUTER KOMIX thing and i'm still not sure how i feel about it. sure came in handy on the plane though!

― s1ocki (slutsky), Saturday, 3 September 2005 05:33 (twenty years ago)

i tend to dl dcp packs via torrent which contain a ton of shit i never bother to read nevermind buy. dling has DEFINITELY inspired me to buy more stuff than i would otherwise instead of 'fuckit - i've dled it already' (including every regularly published thing i'd have on my pull list if i had a pull list)('regularly published' = non-indie pretty much). this is not the case with music. possible reason might be comix cbr/z's come out after actual comic hits newsstands. more likely reason - i can read comix having a cup of coffee, eating, on the toilet, etc. see also - why i still will buy a newspaper i've read much of online already. see also - porn.

― j blount (papa la bas), Saturday, 3 September 2005 06:06 (twenty years ago)

still too broke to afford atually buying the shit, so more d/ling

― kingfish superman ice cream (kingfish 2.0), Saturday, 3 September 2005 06:28 (twenty years ago)

Largely DLing, I do buy more than I did a year ago but that's cos DLin has got me reading comics again full stop.

― Tom (Groke), Saturday, 3 September 2005 06:47 (twenty years ago)

I download everything I read. I'm sort of a cheap bastard in that aspect. On one hand, there is the fact that here (Argentina) most of the stuff I read is unavailable or expensive. But on the other hand, over the last few years, there has been a sort of resurgence of comic publishing and I don't buy any of that!. I sort of think "Why would I buy Identity Crisis when I can download it?". I believe it's a combination of cheapness and the fact that most things they publish I'm not really interested in (at least not that interested that I'm going to spend money on them). Anyway, just last week I saw a very pretty edition of the first Sin City story, and I think I'll buy it, so maybe there's still hope for me.

― Amadeo (Amadeo G.), Sunday, 4 September 2005 19:15 (twenty years ago)

i don't download any comics.

maybe i should start.

― Ian John50n (orion), Sunday, 4 September 2005 19:26 (twenty years ago)

I'm counting 'free comics' as dowloading - that is, comics that are presented via websites, usually as lost treasures rather than bootlegs. So about a sixth of what I read is downloaded, although most of that would be impossible to find... I do take advantage of the willigness of others to make me CDs of stuff, but then I'd borrow trades off them if the technology wasn't there. I'm reminded of a Solar Wind gag advert: "Earthlets! If you read Solar Wind over somebody's shoulder, YOU ARE A THIEF!! Report to the Solarium at once, your eyes are forfeit!!"

― Vic Fluro, Sunday, 4 September 2005 20:13 (twenty years ago)

I still haven't figured out the comics downloading thing, or I'd probably be doing it all the time.

― Austin Still (Austin, Still), Sunday, 4 September 2005 20:19 (twenty years ago)

I don't read downloaded comix, much to my friend's annoyance. I already spend way too much time in front of the comp, and then there's also the bathroom/eating thing Blount mentioned. Never read books online either, despite the wide availability.

(I do make some exceptions tho, in the case of extremley mentalist old comics.)

― Daniel_Rf (Daniel_Rf), Sunday, 4 September 2005 20:28 (twenty years ago)

it's kinda tough, like with music very often it's a no-brainer as i can get stuff that's nearly cd-quality. but with comix there's blount's "toilet factor" (even though i have a laptop), and the fact that my screen isn't as big as a comix page (right-side up). although it's tempting to be able to get... like... anything... i don't think i enjoy the experience as much.

also paper comix are so re-readable... and i'd probably delete stuff on my computer whenever i need space.

blount what are dcp packs?

― s1ocki (slutsky), Sunday, 4 September 2005 20:34 (twenty years ago)

Amadeo, you are cheap and a bastard in EVERY single one of your aspects.

― iodine (iodine), Sunday, 4 September 2005 21:18 (twenty years ago)

'dcp' = digital comics preservation i think. s1ox if you go to a torrent site or even just search 'dcp' on soulseek it'll turn up a bunch of cbr's. eg. right now i'm dling 'dcp 9-1-05' which has:

Amazing Spider-Man v1 523 (2005) (BigBlue-DCP).cbr 11.54 MB
Astonishing X-Men 012 (2005) (Reiu-DCP).cbr 11.25 MB
B.P.R.D - The Black Flame 01 (2005) (The Brute-DCP).cbr 8.32 MB
Batman - Jekyll & Hyde 05 (2005) (GCPD-OCD).cbr 9.66 MB
Batman - Journey Into Knight 01 (2005) (GCPD-OCD).cbr 12.70 MB
Batman 644 (GCPD-OCD).cbr 9.87 MB
Blade of Kumori 02 (2005) (Blackwind-OCD).cbz 9.57 MB
Burglar Bill 03 (2005) (Oroboros-DCP).cbr 10.49 MB
Deal With The Devil 04 Preview (2005) (StreetSamurai-DCP).cbr 3.12 MB
Dragonlance Chronicles 01 (2005) (bittertek-DCP).cbz 7.59 MB
Flash v2 225 (2005) (Team-DCP).cbr 11.39 MB
Genie 01 (2005) (Oroboros-DCP).cbr 14.04 MB
Girls 04 (2005) (GCPD-OCD).cbr 10.04 MB
God the Dyslexic doG 03 (2005) (rescan) (JaneJetson-DCP).cbz 17.63 MB
Green Lantern v4 04 (2005) (Team-DCP).cbr 8.93 MB
Invincible 025 (2005) (madvillain-DCP).cbr 18.84 MB
JLA Classified 011 (2005) (BigBlue-DCP).cbr 10.68 MB
JSA Classified 02 (2005) (Reiu-DCP).cbr 10.95 MB
Livewires 06 (of 06) (2005) (Beast-OCD).cbr 10.34 MB
Looney Tunes 129 (2005) (DigitalPajamas-DCP).cbr 10.98 MB
Machine Teen 04 (2005) (ElCarin-DCP).cbr 6.79 MB
Marvel Previews 025 (2005) (Megatallica-DCP).cbr 57.52 MB
Mutation 01 (2005) (Oroboros-DCP).cbr 12.32 MB
New Warriors v3 01 (2005) (Bchry-DCP).cbr 10.32 MB
New Warriors v3 02 (2005) (Bchry-DCP).cbr 10.42 MB
New Warriors v3 03 (2005) (Bchry-DCP).cbr 11.03 MB
Pirate Club 07 (2005) (Mendax-DCP).cbr 8.70 MB
Queen & Country - Declassified v2 02 (2005) (DCBabes-DCP).cbr 11.19 MB
Queen & Country - Declassified v3 03 (2005) (DCBabes-DCP).cbr 10.12 MB
Revelations 01 (2005) (Mendax-DCP).cbr 11.13 MB
Robin 141 (2005) (Mendax-DCP).cbr 9.11 MB
Runaways v2 07 (2005) (Mendax-DCP).cbr 9.56 MB
Scooby-Doo 099 (2005) (DigitalPajamas-DCP).cbr 11.80 MB
Seven Soldiers - Klarion The Witch Boy 03 (2005) (GCPD-OCD).cbr 10.61 MB
Seven Soldiers - Shining Knight 04 (2005) (Lightray-DCP).cbr 9.33 MB
Shadowhawk 04 (2005) (Wildcarde1-DCP).cbr 14.59 MB
Soulfire - Dying of the Light 01 (2005) (bittertek-DCP).cbz 10.64 MB
Spawn 147 (2005) (Blackwind-OCDS).cbr 10.38 MB
Spellbinders 06 (2005) (Wildcarde1-DCP).cbr 13.06 MB
Strangehaven 017 (2005) (Team-DCP).cbr 16.78 MB
Teen Titans Go! 022 (2005) (Wolfrider-DCP).cbr 11.01 MB
The Black Heart Irregulars 01 (+ Boy & Robot Preview) (2005) (StreetSamurai-DCP).cbr 11.07 MB
The Goon 012 (2005) (Blackwind-OCDS).cbr 10.41 MB
The Thousand Deaths of Baron Von Donut 01 (2005) (BigBlue-DCP).cbr 5.59 MB
Ultimate X-Men Annual 01 (2005) (Team-DCP).cbr 21.14 MB
Usagi Yojimbo v3 086 (metaldave-DCP).cbr 9.75 MB
Vampire Pageant (Mature) (2005) (GornRaldor-DCP).cbr 8.14 MB
Vampirella Death & Destruction 02 (1996) (Wildcarde1-DCP).cbr 17.69 MB
Vampirella Death & Destruction 03 (1996) (Wildcarde1-DCP).cbr 17.30 MB
Wonder Woman v2 220 (2005) (Reiu-DCP).cbr 10.95 MB
X-Men The End Book 2 - Heroes And Martyrs 06 (2005) (Megatallica-DCP).cbr 17.00 MB
Comics

- now this pack's sorta odd cuz alot of this stuff came out last week or earlier maybe even (was klarion just last week? seems older somehow) and there's the annoyance of dling 600 mb when you're really only after 60 mb but i do usually end up reading a lot of stuff i sure as hell wouldn't be buying - wonder woman, etc. since i still buy comix and definitely impulse buy comix being exposed to certain spandex titles thru dling helps them stand out from the pack, i ended up buying all of the adam strange run for instance and guarantee i wouldn't've without dling. ALSO since dcp packs don't come out before releasedate (i'd guess 'being able to get it months before it's released' is the third biggest reason for music dling's success, after 'being able to get it free' and 'being able to find what i want'), if i really really need to see a storyline played out or whatever (fables being the biggest recent example of this i can think of for me) i don't want to wait for it to pop up in a dcp pack (another factor: these packs are loaded but there's alot of spandex stuff even that gets left out occasionally)(plus they take like hours to dl).
if i keep stuff on my harddrive after reading it it's to share on soulseek or with an eye on maybe saving it on a disk for packrat reasons.

― j blount (papa la bas), Sunday, 4 September 2005 21:38 (twenty years ago)

Explain the porn thing, though.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Sunday, 4 September 2005 22:32 (twenty years ago)

wow, that's an insane assortment... now tell me how do you guys read most of this stuff? sitting at your desk, laptop on your lap, or what? i guess even though i spend a lot of time chillin' with my computer i still have a hard time with the idea of RELAXING and reading in front of it, you know? ilx notwithstanding...

― s1ocki (slutsky), Monday, 5 September 2005 00:33 (twenty years ago)

you can read cbr files on cdisplay (freeware, google it) - they're basically renamed zip files i think (???). it's definitely very odd reading at first - the images are generally alot larger than in actual comic so with big huge gatefolds (say the massacre at the end of seven soldiers #0) you're sorta scanning all over your screen, you can't see the whole at once. you adjust quickly though.

― j blount (papa la bas), Monday, 5 September 2005 02:12 (twenty years ago)

I don't download any comics. I do get them from the library frequently, though.

― The Yellow Kid, Monday, 5 September 2005 03:09 (twenty years ago)

so um how do i download comics exactly?

― J.D. (Justyn Dillingham), Monday, 5 September 2005 04:15 (twenty years ago)

Hey, you know if you're using Azureus (and really, who doesn't?) you can opt to only download specific files that you're interested from a torrent:

right click torrent -> show details -> click "files" tab -> right click files you do not want to download (you can shift select a broad swath of files and then right click if you want) -> set priority -> do not download.

Maybe everyone already knew that, but I just found it out and it's been very helpful. I don't get my comics through torrents much, but if you just want one album out of a discography torrent this feature is also very nice.

Of course, you may have your ratio to think about.

― Dan I. (Dan I.), Monday, 5 September 2005 04:36 (twenty years ago)

I think I actually prefer reading comics on the computer. They're so much bigger, and to my eyes they look prettier and more vibrant on the screen (which I know must be technically impossible being as how they are just scans of the paper comics after all).

― Dan I. (Dan I.), Monday, 5 September 2005 04:39 (twenty years ago)

i used to frequent my local comicabery every wednesday and buy three or more comics but eventually stopped because i didnt have the money. then when i went back wolverine was in the avengers and i was like fuckit i dont need to spend my money on this. now i just dl comics and it actually has exposed me to a lot of comics i wouldn't have read otherwise.

― whatever, Monday, 5 September 2005 06:15 (twenty years ago)

buy: 99.5%
read at a mate's: .5%
download: 0%

― kit brash (kit brash), Monday, 5 September 2005 06:25 (twenty years ago)

buy: 99.5%
read at a mate's: .5%
download: 0%

Ditto. Love the smell of ink on paper. Its also good knowing Im not doing any further damage to my mole-like eyes when reading..

Plus its very difficult to get good manga downloads.

― droid, Monday, 5 September 2005 11:58 (twenty years ago)

oh i know that, i've done it in the last couple of weeks. i guess what i'm more interested in is... uh... "technique," like whether you read them at your workstation or you pull up a couch to the desk or what. cuz sittin' back with a comic book on my couch/easy chair is so much part of the experience for me...

― s1ocki (slutsky), Monday, 5 September 2005 13:24 (twenty years ago)

I've never downloaded a comic. Comics are precious, I couldn't sit at a computer and read a comic or a book for that matter. Comics are for lying on the couch or bed with.

― jel -- (jel), Monday, 5 September 2005 17:45 (twenty years ago)

I don't really download any comics because, as I've said before, I get a shitload of DC Comics, for free, without breaking any law, and I can't even find the time to get through all of them, so what are the chances I find the time to read a downloaded comic when I can't even read all of the "real", material ones I get? But my situation's not that different from downloading, I think. So, if things were different, I'd probably be reading tons of cbrs.

I still buy comics, though. The stuff for free ain't as reliable as I'd like, so I still order the DC comics I care about the most, the stuff that really makes me happy to read and would break my heart if I missed an issue; currently that would be Seven Soldiers, Legion of Super-Heroes, JLA Classified and Desolation Jones; I also used to buy Human Target. And I still have to pay for any indie and Marvel stuff I'm interested in. I do it gladly if I'm really interested in it, but if I'm not willing to pay for it, maybe I'm not willing to spend my time on it either.

Still, every once in a while I get the downloading fever, "god, all this great stuff for free!!!", etc; so I have Unstable Molecules 1-4 and some Crumb comics in my slsk shared folder. I've also done it with stuff that's not available on paper, like Moore's Miracleman.

― iodine (iodine), Monday, 5 September 2005 18:39 (twenty years ago)

I don't really download comics. I never really get around to it, and for the cbr's I have read I hated scrolling around to get the whole page.

I definitely spend too much money on comics every month, but it's fun, I like reading them in bed, and at least Maddie and I can buy different stuff and then swap.

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 5 September 2005 18:56 (twenty years ago)

If I stopped being able to afford comics at all though, I'm sure I would turn to the library and the internets rather than not read comics.

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 5 September 2005 18:56 (twenty years ago)

oh yeah! i just remembered the thing i like about downloading comics is that there are no ads. ads totally kill it for me when i'm reading comics, i hate ads so much and it really takes me out of the story to see some dumbass extreme deordorant or corn nuts or something being advertised. i mean obviously you could read only tpbs but you know...

― whateveragain, Wednesday, 7 September 2005 04:29 (twenty years ago)

i usually like ads, esp in old comix, but that fucking matrix game section deal earlier this year like when the new yorker has four pages of one big ad for aruba was really fucking annoying.

― j blount (papa la bas), Wednesday, 7 September 2005 04:45 (twenty years ago)

I've lately started D/L'ing like a madman.
Mostly just through LimeWire (probably not the best place), but I B/T the occassional big run that I never get around to actually reading.

I have a decent sized monitor, and I've got my home pc set up so that I can kick my feet up and get comfortable (though I can't type in that position, so, um, reading only--which is maybe why my EVERY BATMAN STORY OF THE LAST 20 YEARS thing has fallen off).

So far it hasn't affected what I buy, especially since I really can't be arsed to sift through those giant DCP bundles (though, y'know, I really should).

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Wednesday, 7 September 2005 14:27 (twenty years ago)

I do agree that lounging around in the garden or bedroom w/a lemonade was a big part of being 'into comics' for me and that disappears with d/ling BUT also a big part for me has always been the bulk - that joy of having a PILE of comics to get through - 15, 20 of them, a mix of crap and gems - d/ling does still provide that.

― Tom (Groke), Wednesday, 7 September 2005 14:36 (twenty years ago)

x-post
yeah once ads become part of history and you don't feel likes its directly targeted at you its one thing. but i still cant stand being insulted by greedy companies trying to take my money. not that i care about my money so much but when i see "the stripe makes it good deodorant!" and knowing that someone out there thinks i'd be interested because i'm reading whatever comic makes me sick.

― whateveragain, Thursday, 8 September 2005 05:00 (twenty years ago)

i hate that the ads now don't even really seem to pretend that much that kids are the primary market and that there's not much variety - i'd guess at least 80% of the ads are just for video games, other comics, or movies based on comics, and i really miss the tiny ads they would have in the back - charles atlas, x-ray spex, etc. the one i remember eyeing the most were the ones for 'live chameleons' and trying to fathom how someone could mail you a live lizard or what it would be like to receive one. i remember these ads for reeses pieces i think (though probably not cuz i also remember reeses ads around the same time featuring an alien trying to play up the e.t. association for all it's worth) that had meatloaf in them and wondering who the fuck meatloaf was.

― j blount (papa la bas), Thursday, 8 September 2005 05:46 (twenty years ago)

or those for "Bonkers" fruit chews, where the overginormous fruit thing would land on the head of an authority figure

― kingfish superman ice cream (kingfish 2.0), Thursday, 8 September 2005 06:08 (twenty years ago)

I remember the weirdo board and rp games ads that made no sense to me at age 5 or 6 (and probably even 7), but looked really great. Though they look pretty lousy now.

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Thursday, 8 September 2005 13:35 (twenty years ago)

three weeks pass...

The way I see it, this is only counting to new releases right? I mean me downloading a scanned copy of Amazing Spiderman #1 isn't exactly hurting marvel comics is it? To my knowledge, you can't but back issues from Marvel or DC (the 2 main publishers I read with the every once in a while exception to an indie comic). In the back issue respect, by me downloading them I am buying FAR FAR fewer comics.

Now when it comes to new releases, I've been inspired by reading some in a DCP pack that I wouldn't even have looked at in the comic store, then adding it to my subscription list (the local store holds any comic I add to my list for me). In this respect, downloading them has cause me to buy FAR MORE comics. Also, I like the idea of having a digital copy in case something happens to mine, but like I read above it's hard to read a digital comic on the toliet.

In the end I usually delete more then 75% of what I download from a DCP pack, but have found some great new titles that I pick up every month in paper form that I would never have found before. I can see how someone could abuse this, but true fans love to hold the comic and get it as soon as it comes out. I mean, isn't half the fun of collecting comic books "collecting" them? Is it more satisfying to hold up a cd with comics written on it, or to grab a stack of books and just lay back and read them for a lazy afternoon?

Just my humble opinion.

― EVilUmpir, Sunday, 2 October 2005 03:13 (twenty years ago)

Without meaning to be a pain, can anyone tell me how you actually use the downloaders -- I've downloaded torrent and DC++ but no idea what to do next.

― Chuck_Tatum (Chuck_Tatum), Sunday, 2 October 2005 08:40 (twenty years ago)

To my knowledge, you can't buy back issues from Marvel or DC

are you COMPLETELY INSANE?

― kit brash (kit brash), Sunday, 2 October 2005 09:19 (twenty years ago)

you lied kit

― mullygrubbr (bulbs), Sunday, 2 October 2005 11:24 (twenty years ago)

what? when? the 0% upthread? that was before Huk YSIed the Martian Manhunter miniseries!

I dedicated a song to you on ver radio tonight.

― kit brash (kit brash), Sunday, 2 October 2005 15:49 (twenty years ago)

o er do i want to know what it was? was it swoop?

― mullygrubbr (bulbs), Monday, 3 October 2005 05:26 (twenty years ago)

I download NOTHING. only loser comics are online.

― DV (dirtyvicar), Monday, 3 October 2005 10:54 (twenty years ago)

six years pass...

All the usual sites seem to have vanished at once. Oh well...

― improvised explosive advice (WmC), Thursday, 10 May 2012 21:42 (thirteen years ago)

yikes! merci for the info (seriously), but I'm going to take that tidbit off the thread

― improvised explosive advice (WmC), Friday, 11 May 2012 02:38 (thirteen years ago)

buy: 99.5%
read at a mate's: .5%
download: 0%

― kit brash (kit brash), Monday, 5 September 2005 16:25 (6 years ago)

sometimes if an issue of All-Star Superman or Batman & Robin has come out and it'll be a couple of weeks before I get to the comic shop, I'll download a scan to read NOW but have basically already paid for the paper thing so

and when I bought the run of Suicide Squad last year there were four or so late-in-the-run issues which Mile High only had for $9 each or something so I downloaded a torrent of the whole thing to read those four when I got to them

otherwise these figures still stand, except I'm four years behind in going to a friend's house to read Buffy and Theo Ellsworth stuff

(I'm also a couple of years behind on lots of b&w-type hardcovers and such that I've bought btw. Just got around to Pyongyang last week, am happily going to wait a year or four before buying the final Popeye HC because I lost my place in vol 4, and haven't read any Complete Peanuts published since, I think, Christmas 2006)

― ┗|∵|┓ (sic), Friday, 11 May 2012 02:59 (thirteen years ago)

Fair dos, WmC--wasn't sure how wise it was to post it.

― seven league bootie (James Morrison), Friday, 11 May 2012 07:50 (thirteen years ago)

Is there a way to talk about what you were talking about? I'm sort of curious about what would merit such deletion...

― Andrew Farrell, Friday, 11 May 2012 10:01 (thirteen years ago)

I still download a lot, but I don't download stuff I would otherwise have bought, if that makes sense.

― Chuck_Tatum, Friday, 11 May 2012 11:56 (thirteen years ago)

I don't do the illegal downloading anymore. What are the best iPad apps for comics, where I can do in app purchases?

― Jeff, Friday, 11 May 2012 12:15 (thirteen years ago)

I only know Marvel and DC, and XComics for the indies.

This app comic, "Meanwhile", is pretty great too. It's a Choose Your Own Adventure style story.

http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/meanwhile-for-ios/id458451517?mt=8

― Chuck_Tatum, Friday, 11 May 2012 12:47 (thirteen years ago)

Andrew, explanatory ILXmail sent.

― improvised explosive advice (WmC), Friday, 11 May 2012 13:08 (thirteen years ago)

Might I request an explanatory email too?

― calstars, Friday, 11 May 2012 13:23 (thirteen years ago)

And, er, here.

― Chuck_Tatum, Friday, 11 May 2012 13:37 (thirteen years ago)

sent x2

― improvised explosive advice (WmC), Friday, 11 May 2012 13:45 (thirteen years ago)

Thanks!

― Chuck_Tatum, Friday, 11 May 2012 13:55 (thirteen years ago)

can i third that? or is there some way someone can talk around it?

― thomp, Friday, 11 May 2012 15:22 (thirteen years ago)

Can I have it as well please? The future of the Nu52 thread depends on it (possibly).

― I must be old, I recognise nobody in ITV2 idents (aldo), Friday, 11 May 2012 20:31 (thirteen years ago)

Current ratio is 0:0
Will still show up for Torpedo reprints, Showcase Superman Family & Jack Kirby omnibi. I think I still get RASL, if that's still a thing. But I just don't have the time or goodwill to even d/l superhero stuff, nevermind read it. I fell asleep so many times trying to get through the print edition of that Batman Inc wrap-up. I'm interested in Waid's Daredevil, but I'm also acutely aware that it's kind of the token big two superhero comic for people who've given up on big two superhero comics.

― like working at a jewelry store and not knowing about bracelets (Dr. Superman), Sunday, 13 May 2012 05:28 (thirteen years ago)

It's funny that you bring it up, but DAREDEVIL is exactly that. It's as if Marvel was daring you to say THERE ARE NO SUPERHERO BIG TWO TYPE COMICS I WANT TO READ and then offering you this instead. Single issues are decently weight-y that I don't feel like it'd read better in trades (main stories wrap up in 2 issues, threads continue for longer.) It's almost as if Mr. Waid read a lot of Bronze-Age Marvels or something.

You'd probably dig it in trades, Dr. Supes. Or get the issues cheap when the store doesn't want to carry six-month-old issues.

I still read very few digital comics, probably because my iPad is busy with my daughter playing PLANTS VS. ZOMBIES or me making strange sounds on it. That and I'm really not a fan of Comixology's model of "Well, you sorta own the comics on your reader, unless we decide you don't." Which is one of the reasons why I haven't been in a hurry to get my own work out digitally through them.

― Matt M., Monday, 14 May 2012 04:19 (thirteen years ago)

decently weight-y

ha ha, I bought (the latest?) issue because I picked it up in the shop and Chris Samnee was drawing a "date night" story, and I could totally tell that they’ve gone to self-covering. Also on about the third page the date story turned into Matt Murdock narrating his bromance with Foggy Nelson to the hot, flirtatious chick from the first three pages. Which, makes sense for the character and long history of the book I guess, but a waste of Samnee.

― ┗|∵|┓ (sic), Monday, 14 May 2012 06:34 (thirteen years ago)

To be fair, almost every book Samnee has been on has been a waste of Samnee.

― Matt M., Monday, 14 May 2012 13:47 (thirteen years ago)

That and I'm really not a fan of Comixology's model of "Well, you sorta own the comics on your reader, unless we decide you don't."

urgh, hate this so much. Main reason I never got a Kindle, actually.

Close friend just started dating a dude from Comixology; looking forward to picking his brane a bit about how they operate.

― Hierophantiasis (Jon Lewis), Monday, 14 May 2012 17:48 (thirteen years ago)

maybe downloaded five comics ever. probably need to make the full-time move as this stuff just piles up. actually probably need to just stop buying altogether as I'm about three months behind on everything.

― GM, Monday, 14 May 2012 20:49 (thirteen years ago)

To be fair, almost every book Samnee has been on has been a waste of Samnee.

I only know him from Langridge's Thor book, but his romance acting was so good on that I wanted more.

― ┗|∵|┓ (sic), Tuesday, 15 May 2012 00:20 (thirteen years ago)

Yeah, that was good. And he was probably good on QUEEN AND COUNTRY, but I'm not a big fan of Mr. Rucka overall, so haven't read that. Just..."Here's Chris Samnee, let's have him live up to his potential on CAPTAIN AMERICA." There's other work out there, though probably none that pays as much, sadly.

― Matt M., Tuesday, 15 May 2012 03:38 (thirteen years ago)

one year passes...

my dl source (my ex ess ess) seems to have gone belly-up -- anybody have a working source, non-slsk, non-torrent? ILXmail me rather than posting it here. TY!

― needs more garlic → (WilliamC), Thursday, 20 February 2014 04:07 (eleven years ago)

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