They might’ve taken down readcomicsonline JUST as my favorite one was about to be updated
>Ad Infested>Abhorrent comment section>Easily one of the worst methods to pirate comics and only a simpleton would freak out over thisLoose lipsSink shipHeard their Discord also went downGet fucked
Still F
>>153621154>use an ad blocker>why would you need a comment section when you have us?>great for just immediately searching up a bunch of stuff and seeing what it's likeAnything I actually care about I find somewhere else, but there's something to be said for a place with a lot of shit that you can just open up to see what it's like without having to jump through the hoops of "okay this place has this but the old shit is somewhere else with a ton of dead links and torrents."Not like this is streaming shows here, all you need is the images. And if actual quality matter, again, you can then go find it somewhere better.
>>153621154The comments section got a lot better after they changed providers. Causing the inane craop befor eto be deleted rom all the comics.
>All these technologically illiterate troglodytes on social media crying and outing themselves >They're so stupid they actually think this is a Library of Alexandria tier loss and that these comics are just "gone"HAHA EAT SHITBut seriously though, what do you think killed them? The Koreans again?
Any other alternative?
>>153621170>all you need is the images. And if actual quality matter, again, you can then go find it somewhere better.This. For me, I usually goes to Zipcomic once for a while.
>>153621189Apparently the new tactic is rather than go after the pirates, you go after the underlying infrastructure. Gone are the days when you had a server in a basement, it's all in some data center somewhere - like how the panda's is in Moldovia. If you target the data centers themselves, you sidestep needing to track down the pirate and arrest them.
>>153621196Nobody spoonfeed this faggotGatekeep your methods
>>153621201This
>RCO had a DiscordAlright, name series' you can genuinely thank RCO for archiving and not just taking from another source that was already archiving to begin with.Name series' you would have NEVER gotten into if it wasn't for RCO.If you can't answer the first let alone both, RCO was worthless End of story
And just as I was complaining that they still had not uploaded If Destruction Be Our Lot.
I was using it as an easy way to grab some comics for storytimes since it's a pain in the ass to grab and then convert cbz files.
>>153621236>name series' you can genuinely thank RCO for archiving and not just taking from another source that was already archiving to begin with.sonic idw>Name series' you would have NEVER gotten into if it wasn't for RCO.sonic idw
>>153621275>sonic idw>archived primarily by RCOYou're a fucking idiot
https://x.com/CleatsThe4th/status/2053717605605667091/quotes
>>153621280Most of Sonic media is lost. If it wasn't for RCO, Sonic idw would be completely inaccessible.
>>153621294>Sonic idw would be completely inaccessible.You idiotYou genuine fucking idiotThere are other piracy sitesThere's literally a whole Sonic comic piracy site that doesn't even has adsHere's a bright idea dipshit, where/how the fuck do you think RCO got those rips to begin with?
>>153621301>There are other piracy sitesNone of them archived Sonic idw.>where/how the fuck do you think RCO got those rips to begin with?Dedicated archivers working with RCO admins.
>>153621293Why are you gay? How many rupees are you getting to shill for corporations?
>>153621311I pirate comics all the time lolI'm not crying over RCO dying because nothing of actual value is loss while morons treat this as some great offense>>153621310Cripes you're stupidYou deserve to get anal fucked by this
Pretty sure I've seen it do that a few times and then come back so we'll see.
>>153621196https://hakuneko.download/docs/install/>>153621201get a grip retard.
>>153621320Their Discord went down as well so people are treating it more seriously than usualOkay they'll probably be back but man do I love seeing people acting hysterical over shit like this
The comics I had open still work though but the main page and everything is busted. Maybe they'll fix it
>>153621144Do not weep. Piracy sites remaining dead is less reliable than superhero comic character remaining Dead, there is simply too much money on the line. I bet in a week's time we'll have forgotten this even happened.
Hot TakePiracy is objectively good for preservationNot every act of piracy is a lost salePeople have varying valid reasons to pirate concerning distribution, accessibility, second hand market prices, etcBut anything (at least with comics and cartoons) that has benefitted from the word of mouth from piracy never needed said word of mouth to begin with to be profitable in the first place.
>>153621339Preservation is unnecessary. Not everything needs to be saved, it's better to just accept things are gone.
>>153621301>where/how the fuck do you think RCO got those rips to begin with?In most cases, libgen
>>153621345Buddha please, shut the fuck up we're not talking about a loved one we're talking about a book. Something that can easily be saved with the slightest fuck.
>>153621345>I can't distinguish between my opinions and facts
>>153621353You need to let go of your attachment to reading Kingdom Come any time you want.
>>153621358You need to let go of your attachment to oxygen
>>153621364See now you are angry. But there is no need to be angry. It is better to have morals.
Pressing F.Only because it being a bigger more public target shields my preferred forms of piracy.
>>153621367>It is better to have moralshe posted on 4chan
If there are any words of actual meaning for RCO, I can safely say within its decade of existence it gave birth to Twitter zoomers from across the globe who actually read comics and got into the likes of decades old material and have formed the modern discourse we see today outside of /co/.That or it was DC and Marvel's actual apps (cause none of those little shits read anything beyond those two aside from Invincible and fucking Scott Pilgrim) but I'm not sure about the range on those two.Look, there's a reason you have diehard fans of characters ranging from Superman to fucking Hank Pym who are from the Middle East or SEA of all places and RCO being so accessible was probably the reason
>>153621378If they start using their eyes I'm gonna regret all my bashing
>>1536213854chan isnt a secret club for more than a decade old man.
Saw someone speculate it has to do with Animekai going down
>>153621144Well shit. There was so much Kirby I wanted to read. Mostly New Gods and Eternals.
>>153621397No one said it was secret you fucking retard
>>153621324Is this HD stuff too? I can't use this at the moment but I will keep it saved for when I am able to use itIn general tho what are good alternatives that have high quality images and such?
>>153621421you post here because you dont have morals? edgyguess you needed somewhere after they shut down comments on YT Kids and your family all blocked you on FB
>>153621388It's proof that comics should be "free" and accessible everywhere
>>153621421Thats what you are implying you senile faggot. Every single time one of you edgy retards would get called out for acting like a teenager you pulled the same shitty excuse.
>>153621327It's gone down before hasn't it? I imagine it'll be back up with a slightly different domain name or with a .cr or something.
>>153621444>I CAN'T TELL THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN INFERENCE AND IMPLICATIONwe aren't nice peoplesuck off the other namefags on a nanefag forum, a third of this website is dedicated to piracy
>want to Support The Industry>go into comic shop that just opened>see a street fighter comic with my wife on the cover but it's like $30 wtf>ask for ultimate spidowman>"Uhhh I don't think I have a reader copy">wait wat>every comic they have is some rated collector/speculator bullshitI just wanted to read comic book. instead i will pirate.
>>153621449Pircacy is clearly bad for you Timmy. As it turns out giving a child (in your case a manchild) everything they want can causes arrested development.
>>153621144Man. I read all of Cerebus, all of the Garth Ennis Punisher, Punisher 2099, USM, was in the middle of read Booster Gold. I'm so out of practice with piracy and even then do I really want a bunch of CBR and PDF files I'm never going to look at?
>>153621439Here's the thingYou're foreign?UnderstandableBroke?Happens to all of usDon't have an LCS?It's a niche hobbyOut of print?By all means surf the seasBut FFS the cancelation line for monthly comics is astonishingly lowAs asinine as it is to trust Americans to actually buy quality and support the good stuff to keep it going, that's the way things are with comicsIt's a domestic product made solely for a domestic audience and is funded by said domestic audience and no amount of opinion by a foreign readership is gonna change shitTheir money is worthless to begin with aside from supporting a market of physical translations in their regionAnd really?It SHOULD stay that way no different from how manga shouldn't have to pander to gaijin who aren't even the people keeping that stuff going.It's frustrating that being a foreign fan of American comics is probably like being a fan of Saudi Arabian women's sports and sometimes foreign fans DO have better tastes but at the end of the day comics' as an industry is still dependent on Americans (who buy) above all else.For as much whining people have over cheesecake covers or Batman getting another ongoing, that's what sells especially since the industry itself has lost out on whole generations and catered more to a failed speculator market that helped crash the industry to begin with
>>153621454maybe save money or find a new hobby if you cant? breaking the law aint the solution, havent you read socrates?
>>153621144>The sky is falling!Yeah if you hadn't noticed, none of the images were hosted on rco, the pages were dynamically generated out of a database which might not even have been hosted on rco either
>>153621457Faggot
>>153621460im gonna be real, the reason I don't buy comics is because the asking price is four dollars or five. I'm down to buy back issues for like a buck or two but like genuinely theyre retarded to think anyone wants to buy floppies at that going rate.
>>153621154??? use an adblocker like a normal person, also it had a comment section??>Easily one of the worst methods to pirate comicsIt has everything without needing to download anything. You can check a few pages without needing to download a massive torrent.readcomicsonline has nothing to do with pirating comics. There is no irc,downloads,megas/torrents&etc. It also has more than just DC/marvel stuff that would be hard to find. Yes having massive storage yourself is the best option. But not everyone wants to download TB's of data for shit they are going to read once.Also lets be realistic if you are going to download torrents in this day and age. You need a proper seedbank which costs money and a real vpn which also costs money and all the hardware which once again costs money. If RCO is dead tho this sucks, since unlike manga which has hundreds of sites. There is like nothing for western comics RCO is basically all there is.
>>153621466Got no arguments for thatFloppies are overpriced
>>153621468>There is like nothing for western comics RCO is basically all there isI can think of like two to three more
>>153621468???Don't post like a retard newfag zoomer???:skull:
>>153621364>>153621367Buddha that wasn't me. That was another retard. As the zen koan once say, "not all anon are same guy.">>153621469Yeah, I picked up like some shitty packaged comic reprints at a dollar tree for a dollar twenty five and was happy with that purchase but like geniunely idk what the fuck they are thinking selling floppies and asking you to invest your money into something that clearly is overpriced and ripping me off.
>>153621144If anything ever happens to InStockTrades I'm quitting comic books entirely
>>153621477>invest
>>153621505I am saying fucking BUY retard, as in my purchases are what this company is seeking as a business but they fucking SUCK at what theyre doing.
>>153621201Nigga it's 4chan, you say to gatekeep if you're on shit like Twitter or Tiktok, nobody's going to read this.
>>153621465I didnt ask for your sexual preference.
>>153621236How'd I read The Badger without ROC?
>/co/ complains that the comic industry is dying>yet refuses to buy comics, opting to pirate insteadSeriously?
>>153621543Have they considered switching back to newspaper print rather than the glossy shit and charging more reasonable prices than five dollars for a decompressed issue where NOTHING HAPPENS and expect me to pay for it? No? Then I shan't be buying.
>>153621543Ok buy comics I intended to story time cause they tend not to end up on readcomicsonline or other piracy sites in decent quality.
>>153621543Give me a comic that looks like this and I will gladly pay 4.99 every month to keep up on it. I do not like digital art.
>>153621144I’m reading comics on it right now, you fucking schizo.
>>153621144Literally just finished reading invincible before it went down kek
>>153621581OP, it’s not down. Stop being autistic.
>false alarm
>>153621615>>153621587It's literally down, what do you mean?
>>153621615still looks down to me
>>153621144sweetie, I haven't had cable in over a decade.I haven't owned a working TV set in almost as long.they keep taking down the sites I bookmark to watch new shows, cartoons, movies, near daily and near daily new ones pop up.they keep taking away the ability to stream from my computer to the set so I would get plugs and cable or try other thingsand finally when the set broke I just didn't replaceI was just watching a decade old cartoon just yesterday.tl;drso grow a pair do your home workget tor reading or get a better paying job or stop paying for groceries or whatever it is that keeps you from PAYING for your funny books
Everyone wants people to pay for comic so fine. Is there a subscription based service that will pretty much get me the complete backlog of old spider-man or x-men comics? Like including the less popular spin-offs or one offs and such? I don't mind tossing money at Marvel or DC as long as there's some good value but I'm not paying the insane fees they want for what amounts to maybe 5 mins of entertainment.
>>153621543>Seriously?As serious as the same reason why it is suddenly okay when the monopolized comic industry keeps being bailed out of collapse by non comic readers yet never with privacy websites by literally anyone.
Seems to be working.https://readcomiconline.li/ComicList/LatestUpdate
Huh?
OP just being a schizo. No need for panic.
They had been having issues on/off in the last few oweeks.
>>153621144All this schizo samefagging about a thing that never happened. Seek help.
>>153621144>Run piracy site>Watermark all your images with site URL>Do this shit for years and years and years>Site finally gets taken downglobalcomix.comreadallcomics.comreadcomicsonline.ruThe pirates must die so the industry can live.
Well, i hope people on /co/ will storytime the ongoings i like.
>>153621655still down for me
>>153621671>>153621666What's with this weird trolling attempt? It's still down.
>>153621699I'm literally on it>>153621655
>>153621705Well it's down for me and a lot of other folks. No idea what's up with that. Either way it's not a schizo trolling attempt or whatever
>>153621705You're using the Temu version. The original had moved to the Liechtenstein domain, not Russia.
go figure another carnac thread.
>>153621682>The pirates must die so the industry can live.perhaps... they should try making comics worth purchasing...
>>153621477>As the zen koan once say, "not all anon are same guy."That was what the student said.But the master replied "You can yell at anyone you want."And the student was enlightened.
>>153621716Oh, I didn't even know there was another one.
>>153621682>The pirates must die so the industry can liveThe irony of saying this while posting a pikachu pic. Is this a bot?
>>153621543Pirating and buying isn't mutually exclusive. There's a lot of comics that I only ended up buying because I checked out their first few issues on the internet. Hell, there's some industries that only survive because of piracy. Like Board Game companies started to wholesale recommending pirating their games through Tabletop Simulator to give them a shot and try them in person. Manga also gets a massive boost from people that read chapters online without paying a dime to their original mags, but then show up later for the volume releases and pay the big fukken bucks.
>>153621801>I stole a bunch of stuff but I bought once
>>153621805I actually buy in most cases. Anything that I'd actually continue to read is something I'd be willing to buy. I check out most of my pull box in the morning in the release threads, then head to the LCS in the afternoon to pick them up, play BattleTech, and discuss the comics with the other guys there who will have already read them as well by the time I arrive
>>153621801Manga is different, right? Aren't the chapters released in weekly magazines with a bunch of other titles, then collected later.>>153621735No, it's true. DC Infinite is 12.99 a month for day one digital releases. The UI is shit, but the service exists. Why don't you use it?
>>153621891Why would I support something that makes Batman and many others marriageless a decade and some years until they enter a public domain?
It's actually back now by the way.>>153621962>marriagelessNot everything is Spider-man
>>153621144>JUST as my favorite one was about to be updatedGood, fuck you.
>>153622001False alarm. It does work but only on mobile for some reason.
>>153621144https://readcomicsonline.ruSeems like it's a skill issue on your part, sar.
>>153622001>Not everything is Spider-manIs he relevant to begin with because of what Prime said?
>>153622055Oh, you're schizoing out. Sorry, my bad.
>>153622076>schizoing outRich coming from someone who brought up a Marvel character out of nowhere after shilling DC.
Reminds me of when all those anime streamers went down and everyone was crying about it like the world ended.If people are so fucking stupid that they can’t find the most basic shit let them wallow in their own ignorance.
>>153622093Don't let the voices in your head win, anon.
>>153622113>brought up pikachu>brought up DC>finally brought up spider-man>then expected others to get what you mean for some reasonThe shills didn't send their best.
>>153621196I tried using readallcomics but it refuses to work even if I disable ad blocker
>>153621543I'm actually totally fine with the comic industry as it is now just dying.In fact, I think it would probably be a good thing if it just died.
>>153621339>Not every act of piracy is a lost saleI've purchased multiple books after first reading them for free.
>>153621144it's back up
>>153622323This The current industry is nothing but makework jobs for women and theythem fuckwads, they can publish literally anything to keep trademarks active and it shows
>>153621144I just read through Mihon
>>153621648No, that's readcomiconline, no s.
I don't use RCO because it drains my phone battery faster. Is there a website out there that doesn't drain my battery?
>>153621236>>153621189It's not just about archiving, the site was just easy and convenient to use and now it's down you joyless retards.
>>153622562Who cares. I don't read comics. I only want to watch anime.
>>153621648:(
>>153621655that's .ru not .li
>>153622581you should broaden your tastes then lol.
The only thing I hate about RCO are the watermarks every couple of pages. They even added a two page mode for spreads recently but it doesn't really work because the watermark will offset one of the pages slightly and it looks bad.
>>153622602Why should I? Anime is better than every other medium. And nothing makes me happy anymore.Also if I go back to comics, I'm either stuck reading 60s Fantastic Four comics as mandatory homework for Spiderman, or stuck reading IDW Horse Show comics as mandatory reading for season 6 of Global Rule 15.
>>153622340Same, I do this to avoid crap I don't want
>>153621196Torrents are always the answer
Even redditors are complaining, this is a big deal. This shit is bigger than you all realize. I don’t use the site, but many people do.>>153621388Well said, anon.
>>153622616You should try reading more than just fantastic four and spider-man if you think that's all there is to comics.
>>153622562I mean, sure, but who really cares?It's a disposable site for a disposable form of entertainment.
>>153622661That's not why I'm reading it.Pic related says I have to for the sake of some of the best comics ever made.
>>153621801>Manga also gets a massive boost from people that read chapters online without paying a dime to their original mags, but then show up later for the volume releases and pay the big fukken bucks.That didn't stop them from purging thousands of scanlations off of mangadex and other sites.Publishers are fucking retards and even though piracy has a negligible effect on their bottom line, it bruises their egos, so they are compelled to go scorched earth on it.
>>153621339>Hot TakeI think you mean "obvious line of thinking that almost anyone who's not a troll or a complete retard would agree with".
>>153622594And?
>>153622340This. Every single volume on my shelf is from something I either read on RCO or MangaDex or in a storytime thread on /co/ or /a/. The nearest comic book store from where I live is a 40 mile drive, if not for comics being spread around online I would never have found 99% of the stuff I've read and bought.
>>153622581Then fuck off back to /a/
>>153622818Why should I? There are no good anime.
>>153622822>Nuh gud animu>Nuh gud comixCoolKill yourself or not but stay out of here
>>153622822Then go to /tv/, They have almost all the viewable media. There's got to be something on air that you would like.
>>153622830I like it here.
>>153622837No one likes you though
>>153622836>3dpd>viewableWhat the fuck is wrong with you>>153622842Your problem, not mine.
>>153621324Yes, yes (you) are.
>>153622340It's honestly just a safer more accurate bet, especially with stuff that have an actual storyline. Imagine buying a book solely based on the description and few pages/cover, only to realize it's shit.
>>153622743You're not on the real RCO. You're on a knockoff site designed to steal your IP address and log your keystrokes.
>>153622340This. First started reading Bone through priated scans, loved it so much that I bought the single issue graphic novel years later when I had the means.
>>153622921The real RCO does that too.
>>153621385what need has the saved for a savior?
>>153621543i don't want to pay for a 90s release for a comic when DC won't even do a formal rerelease
>>153622612Yeah those are annoying, but it was hilarious when Tom King posted a page with a watermark on his social media before it was pointed out to him and he deleted it.
>>153622340I do the same for comics, books and movies. Better to buy something you already know you like beforehand than waste money on something you won't enjoy.
>>153622921>a knockoff site designed to steal your IP addressEvery fucking website can read your IP, that's how the web is able to work you giant paranoid retard>And your keystrokes Do everyone a favor and keep your schizo bullshit to yourself>y-you don't understand–No I've been an application developer longer than you've been alive so kindly fuck off and/or kill yourself
>>153622340Think of it this way, I have read countless manga on free sites. I have bought most takabons after the fact I read them online. Naruto, Bleach and One Piece all sit on my shelf because of this method. So yes making stuff free does sometimes garuntee a sale if the story is good enough.
>>153623155Go witless for Christ elsewhere
>>153622616>I'm either stuck reading 60s Fantastic Four comics as mandatory homework for Spidermannone of it is required you retard. if you think reading FF is required for understanding ASM you have only yourself to blame
>first motherless dot com goes down>then a bunch of movie piracy sites just completely break>now thisWhat the actual fuck is happening?
>>153621274How is it a pain in the ass? You just unzip it
>>153621274>since it's a pain in the ass to grab and then convert cbz files.cbz = zipcbr = rarcb7 = 7zAre we good here
>>153623818They're just trying to funnel people onto sites that will comply with giving them your data.
>>153622562edgyfucksjust like poorfags who cant afford a phone so they screech and go edgyfucks about posting from phones
Damn I was right in the middle of pretending to read Capes Inc
>>153624023Stfu, shill.
>>153621144fuck it actually happenedRIP
>>153621201This. The type of people who need to be spoon fed are the same type of people who will blab the most about it resulting in other (better) sites getting taken down.
I think we're witnessing the end of piracy as we know it. Maybe it'll still exist in some shape or form, but it probably won't be as accessible as it once was.
>>153624043poorfag
>>153624100>I thinkYou can't.Again, RCO is three parts all hosted separately:1. The images, on a webserver no one pays attention to2. The database of issues pointing to the images residing on its own server3. The web application that integrates 1 and 2 into a website, nothing in the page code reveals where 2 is locatedYou watched 3 go down. That's it. This system was designed with these failsafes in mind. Another 3 will be set up if it hasn't been already. The majority of the rips come from libgen and it's likely the database contains links to them there in case the images have to be reposted elsewhere. >THE WEST HAS FALLENyeah ok whatever
>>153621201The amount of people on /co/ is so small. All of 4chan is losing traffic every year especially after the leak. And like such a small fucking fraction on /co/ actually reads comics.
>>153623818Site takedowns tend to happen in waves. Old and already croaking piracy sites will be the easiest victims.
>>153624058>ThisRedditor detected here is your updoot my kind sir.
Genuine question - is there still decent places you can go to to torrent comic scans from before the digital days? I mean for example old stuff that hasn't ever been reprinted and had to be scanned by hand instead of ripped digitally. I used to download tons back in the days when you'd have blogs that exclusively dumped anything and everything through fileshare servers (Mega, Rapidshare, Mediafire etc.) and if I couldn't find em there I'd come here or Kickass Torrents.I just worry about a lot of the more obscure stuff that readcomicsonline was great for disappearing if nobody's backing this shit up
>>153621201Oh shut up. You think whatever website your using isn't on anyone's radar? There are entire divisions of companies whose job is to track down illegal uploads, they just don't act on them all the time.
Shit I was finally getting into comics this year and I had like 50 comics bookmarked there for convenience. At least I was smart enough to write my list down but it's a bummer. I'm kind of worried about the future of piracy especially with that insane internet ID the government wants to have to. Its so weird we have so many fucking spergs who would suck the cock of cooperations just because manga is out selling comics. Wait no it's not there are so many fucking faggots here. I bet most people getting on like that only come here to jerk off to hypnotized children in cartoons and dont even read comics. Oh well I guess all this shit is the inevitable fate of the modern internet.
>>153624295>is there still decent places you can go to to torrent comic scans from before the digital days?Read the thread before posting questionsYou can do thisOne name has been dropped twice
>>153624295I'm worried too I was reading Warlord, Crystar, OMAC and I dont knowi if that's easy to find a download of yet There was shit like the 80s prisoner comic who no one cares about that I read but who knows if anyone but me cared enough to back that up.
>>153621801>but then show up later for the volume releases and pay the big fukken bucksManga piracy by foreigners has literally zero effect on the longevity of manga
>>153622562>the site was just easy and convenient to use and now it's down you joyless retards.If you had to rely on RCO of all places, you're an idiot
This is some totalitarian bullshit.I bet that sack of shit Dan Slott is happy.
>>153624518Hey hey jackass LITERALLY EVERY COMIC RCO HAD IS ARCHIVED SOMEWHERE ELSE
>>153624500where did I say I relied solely on rcoyou're being pretentious for no reason, knowing how to click a magnet link doesn't make you special.
>>153624530Why are you yelling?
>>153624530I want to read it on my phone. Torrenting is for suckers.
>>153624569Because you retards aren't paying attention to the posts telling you this one website isn't that consequential You will continue to be yelled at until you read the fucking thread
>>153624579>I'm too poor to own a computer but let me dress it up pretty so it sounds like preferences
>>153623818>motherless dot com goes downThe fuck? I had saved a handful of links to that one but haven't checked in years. When did this go down?
>>153624530>EVERY COMIC RCO HADThe irony here being RCO never "had" those comics, only links to image galleries elsewhere
>>153624589who cares if there are other ways, it was a cool website and it's a tragedy if it's gone for good
>>153622340You're the minority and if you're not even American (or at the very least someone whose buying comics from your own country), your money is worthless in the broader picture
>>153624538>knowing how to click a magnet link doesn't make you special.Being a poorfag who only has internet access through his Android phone doesn't either
>>153624473Yea, western interest in manga literally means nothing, see stuff like Red Hood, which was jerked off as the next big thing™ on Reddit before being unceremoniously axed because the Japanese audience didn't like it.
>>153624612>who cares if there are other waysThat sounds retarded>it was a cool websiteIt depended heavily on ad blockers against any form of interaction>and it's a tragedy if it's gone for goodThe website did not actually contain the comics Timmy, it was nothing more than a few lines of code to retrieve them which can be rehosted on a new website
>>153624625I have a desktop lol. rco is still convenient
>Wake up>It's still downI love the taste of ESL and poorfag tearsHopefully the people writing and drawing comics learn to stop pandering to them
>>153624678I know they host the images on blogspot or something but how is a new website gonna get setup if the discord is shut down and the people who ran the old website (and presumably were in charge of uploading new comics) are probably quitting? Plus there's the comments section which already got wiped once and that sort of community can't easily be replicated.
>B-BUT IT HAD EVERYTHINGNO IT DIDN'T YOU IGNORANT TWATHAHA GET FUCKED PABLOEAT SHIT MUSTAFAHGET BENT HADJIWOOOOOO
>>153624602Like three days ago.But it will come back,they put on a message that say they'll check all the videos that got uploaded to remove anything illegal.Apparently,there were people who uploaded videos of themselves raping unconscious womens
>>153624738>how is a new website gonna get setup if the discord is shut down You genuinely believe a resource preexisting discord can't be rebuilt without it>and the people who ran the old website (and presumably were in charge of uploading new comics) You have it backwards, their script was grabbing them from libgen, unpacking them then using the image host to store them then putting the links into the application's db server (again, not hosted on the webserver and backed up periodically). If you don't do web development your speculations come out of your ass.>are probably quitting? See above re: your ass>Plus there's the comments section which already got wiped once and that sort of community can't easily be replicated.The comments section you're in right now is a set of tables in a database not static HTML pages, anon
>>153624678>It depended heavily on something anyone should have by default on every siteSo?
>>153622562>Couldn't answer the questionRCO was worthless
>>153624837More heavily obtrusive than nearly any other site
>>153622562>I'm not interested in solutions, I want to have a tantrum
>>153624816Weird timing then. I hope it's not gone gone. There were some videos I've only ever seen there.
>>153621144It was the only site where i could find most of the Hd version of early comics, fucking hell
>>153624864And how exactly do you know that, other than you visiting it without an adblock on?
>>153624884Sorry I didn't realize I wasn't allowed to be upset about one of my favorite sites being gone :|
>>153624912>It was the only sitelurk moar
>>153621144batcave or better yet, download from GetComics.
>>153624941hmmm, Anon? don't you know you have to be a pessimistic cunt to post heregive me your /co/ id card, it's revoked
Yess YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS OUT YOURSELVESOUT YOURSELVES TO ALL THE PEOPLE IN COMICS WHO FOLLOW YOU (for some reason)OUT THE FACT THAT YOU NEVER PAID A CENT ON COMCS AND NEVER WILLBWAHAHAHAHAHA
Never buying a comic again.
The ability to read comics online legally is still absolute fucking agony. Piracy literally just won on the availability side.In truth it still is for manga, outside of the mainstream Shonen Jump/Sunday titles, but that at least is a glimpse of a functional industry where you can actually find and engage with new works.
>>153624945Fuck off Ive tried 3 different sites already and couldnt find the early incredible hulk issues in HD.
>>153624896They do say they are "working to come back online" so there's that.Never saw those rape videos myself, i have an account on Motherless but i dont search a lot of videos, i upload stuff there i want to keep
>>153621144This would have made me sad if I didn’t stop reading modern comics for being shit.
>>153625055Took me less than 5 minutes, seems HD to me.
>>153621154>Loose lips>Sink shipDumbest argument ever, especially when it's used by floppyfaggots
>>153624602Who cares? Motherless hasn't been relevant in a decade. Just use simpcity for porn like a normal person.
>>153625144Have no idea why I can't download the images but check on batcave biz/reader/18647/128344#page-9
>>153625144Not him and I was guy he was talking to but like, come the fuck on Anon
>>153625055I've been reading the first issues of The Incredible Hulk Epic collection. That's the one on every site that has the closest thing to HD scans of the first 6 Hulk issues from the 60's.
>>153624941>my favorite sitesNot even a site proper, not more like a webapp connecting to source that wasn't taken down and will be replaced with another
>>153624696>Hopefully the people writing and drawing comics learn to stop pandering to themWho are these "people" pandering to ESL speakers and people not willing to pay $5 for a floppy? Tell me, floppyfaggot
>>153625144>>153625181I meant from issues 102-onward.
>>153625144Not him but that shits not HDThe issues of early Hulk I was reading up till yesterday on ReadComicOnline were 10x better than that shit
>>153624945Nta but I have tried a couple of websites since I saw this and its just not the same quality or as convenient
>>153625071No real rape videos but there was some extreme content like asphyxia videos where women were getting hanged for 5-10 seconds for real. Crazy stuff because even when actual risk of death is very low, theres a high risk for brain damage.
>>153625194>Who are these "people" pandering to ESL speakers and people not willing to pay $5 for a floppy? Tell me, floppyfaggotArtists who cave in and make Wanda brown
>>153625210That's because it's a screenshot and not the actual picture, just check the comment below>>153625207Check batcave biz/reader/28272/196545 the original or if you want to download and read on a tablet getcomics org/marvel/incredible-hulk-epic-collection-vol-3-the-leader-lives-2018/
>>153625243>Artists who cave in and make Wanda brown1) literally what artists?2) Who is Wanda? Unless you mean Scarlet Witch, and if so, why'd they make her brown3) Are you sure that the artists were forced to make Wanda brown and didn't just make her brown of their own volition?
>>153625288>3) Are you sure that the artists were forced to make Wanda brown and didn't just make her brown of their own volition?Momoko got flack over drawing her pale and to course correct over when she drew her a second timeI don't even like floppies, I think it's an outdated method but if you're gonna bitch and moan about a series you like getting canned you have no right to bitch and moan about it if you never supported it to begin with (especially if you COULD have done so)
>>153625281Yes I checked that one. I guess its the highest quality im gonna get so fuck it
>>153624696I like having easy access to old out of print comics that aren't even available on the digital subscription services, but all right, dunk on the poors.
>>153622732Sadly, there are a lot of retards
>>153621144>decades of comments deleted>site downFUCK>>153621154The comments were the best part, the purge ruined it
This shit takes up space, I need digital.
It's so fucking hilarious seeing /co/ Anons complain about this lolYou guys really are blind
I can't believe I'm sharing a board with such tech illiterate morons that could only read pirated comics on a crap website like readcomicsonline. And they have the audacity to imply it had better scans as if anyone made scans or rips specifically for it. We're a few years away from idiots leaving comments in which they talk to readcomicsonline and tell them they didn't do a good job writing this comic.
>>153625310>I don't even like floppies, I think it's an outdated method but if you're gonna bitch and moan about a series you like getting canned you have no right to bitch and moan about it if you never supported it to begin with (especially if you COULD have done so)1) If floppies are outdated then so is the entire Comics Industry2) I'm not the one who's bitching and moaning about a series getting canned, stay on-topic3) floppyfaggots have no taste, they eat shit and eat more shit, so this just incentivizes companies to pump out more shit. You have no right to criticize me for not supporting your shitty series when your kind is responsible for making the Industry what it is today4) "Momoko got flack"; Literally Whoooooooooooooooo??????5) I buy floppies because I want to own them when i want to own them, not because I'm supporting a series unless it's absolutely amazing in my eyes. Stop making up shit, you floppyfag degenerate
>>153621682alsolibgengetcomicwhatever remains from the torrent scene (all dead)that DC++ hub i forget the name of where all the schizos with TB sized seedboxes are
>>153625399Fucking hell, these numbskulls are brain deadIt's not even a case of tech illiteracy, just use your fucking eyesYou're on /co/ It shouldn't be this hard (and frankly, maybe that's a good thing)
>>153625416>If floppies are outdated then so is the entire Comics IndustryIt is.
>>153625399don't be retarded, it ain't like tv warez where you several trackers with entire series public. comics have been getting hard to get since the 2010s
>>153625416>MomokoPeach MomokoJapanese artist who did Ultimate X-Men
Replacement already up but It has a lot of shit missing
>>153625448IIRC that was already a thing before the take down
>>153621397The point is that it's NOT secret, glowie
>>153625429Then why talk about comics, both as an industry and as a medium, when it's as viable as >>153625446>Peach Momoko>Japanese artist who did Ultimate X-MenLiterally WHOOOOOOOOOOOO????????????????????????!
>>153625429why talk about comics, both as an industry and as a medium, when they're as viable as the some extinct in the wild specie?
>>153621682globalcomix is legit though
Fuck it, I'll just use the storytimes on Desuarchive.
>>153625430>Saying this on /co/If you can't figure this out, you were probably dropped on your head as an infantThis is some Hank couldn't figure out Walter White is Heisenberg tier shit
>>153625281>Check batcave biz/reader/28272/196545 the original or if you want to download and read on a tablet getcomics org/marvel/incredible-hulk-epic-collection-vol-3-the-leader-lives-2018/Is batcave a rco or a getcomics scrapper?
>>153621154are you fucking stupidthe site had a shit ton of old ass comics that no one had ever uploaded beforeshit like the richie rich comics, archie, old marvel compendiums that are a bitch to find reprints for. Stuff that now you have to track down on your own because no one other than the admins for the site were autistic enough to create a library for.
>>153625692>the site had a shit ton of old ass comics that no one had ever uploaded beforeWhere the Hell do you think they got it from?
>>153625642i wrote this actually >>153625418Admittedly i never bothered to check where the 0day rippers upload their shit today but they haven't ripped something i wanted to read in years.So, genious, did I "figure it out"?
>>153625707For the most part, sure
>>153625707Oh and I forgot that old comics private tracker, but I don't think it ever really took off.>>153625727Now ask yourself if the entire bloody scene being dependent on copying the homework of two single points of failure (getcomics and the schizo-gatekept hub) means comics are easy to find.
ITS BACK ONLINE YOU FUCKING RETARDS
tfw no rco for western ero comics
>>153625698from a bunch of different sites it wasn't a single admin by the way, it was a collaborative job
>>153625771>being dependent on copying the homework of two single points of failure (getcomics and the schizo-gatekept hub) means comics are easy to find.I said for the MOST partComics (that have actually been scanned/ripped) are easy to find if you're not an idiot and treating RCO as this big bastion where it had everything and now it's all "lost" is just dumb
>>153625682Yeah, seeing the watermarks.
>>153625794>it wasn't a single admin by the way, it was a collaborative jobBull fucking shitRCO never led squat for actual comic preservation
>>153624040I was on the middle of Invincible Universe after chugging along the Guarding the Globe BS. I was going to read the New Gods by Kirby afterwards. Fuck.
>>153625783No it isn’t
>>153625799Really? The day get comics dies it's straight up over.0days are uploaded in a secret. private bunker got knows where and old comics are gatekept by the schizo brigade at the hub. nobody has the means to access those.You can brag it's easy and people who use RCO are retards, but you'd be in exactly the same position if anything happened to getcomics. Second best alternative is libgen and that doesn't even have 1/10th the content they have.
>>153623908I'm aware of that, I know how to do it. It's just easier to go through and grab them from RCO than get it from Getcomics, covert to zip or rar then reextract the images. Also I've had times where stuff has been on RCO that wasn't on Getcomics or Getcomics had either dead links or their shady/shitty file hosts.
>>153625818But its right here its not gone
>>153625790That's sadpanda, which is annoying because every few weeks there's some new spam batch of western porn comics that got updated.
>>153625692>Stuff that now you have to track down on your own because no one other than the admins for the site were autistic enough to create a library for.Bro, all they did was scrape other sites and torrents, are you fucking retarded?
>>153625816ok retard
>>153625846OH fuck what it was working when I was logged it but I logged out to take a screenshot and not dox myself and now its all gone Im going to cry. This is all your fault specifically fuck you.
>>153625859sadpanda doens't archive old stuff, only new digital shit that's almost always patreon rips. kemono dying this month will be their 9/11
>>153622340Same. 99% of what the industry spews out on a montly basis isn't worth paying for. I'm not gambling on finding the proverbial needle in the haystack, but I will buy things I enjoyed if they become available in a format worth paying for. I will not pay for shitty trades that fall apart if you look at them the wrong way, but I will buy hardcovers.check the archive for netzpolitik if you want to read the study
>>153625880>sadpanda doens't archive old stuffHuh?Define old.There's tons of old shit on sadpanda.
>>153625875>ok retardThey weren't actively scanning and ripping stuffThat was literally other people outside of RCO
Anyone saying "hurrrr just go to getcomics and libgen" is either trolling or a dumbfuck retard. What makes you think they won't go after those afterwards too? Motherless is gone too alongside shit like Cuevana (the actual Cuevana) and movie piracy. They're after blood.
>>153621144they've been hard targetting ddl piracy sites latelynot wise
>>15362590280s-90s-00s prestige print erothere's only a few rips from big name artists. things like xxxenomorph are all incomplete.
>>153625911>libgenBecause Libgen is too valuable to go away so easilyIt's a resource broader than comics
>>153621294>>153621310Don't worry, Anon. I found it pretty quick. It's out there.
>>153621345No.
>>153621144There is no fucking way that RCO Shares the same server as animekai and the other streaming sites.
>>153621454Market speculation and soft power should indeed be outlawed
>>153621460I'm not reading monthly comics that are just filled with obnoxious attempts at social engineering.
>>153625161And yet it was loose lips that cost us the find-o. Curious.
>>153621294>Most of Sonic media is lost. Anon just go to Grabber zone net if you want to read archie or idw sonic.
>>153621639No, because if the modern titles have to complete with the old ones no one will read them because they aren't good.
>>153622690Those lists are all either paid for or aggregated based on comments because if they stray too far out of the picnic opinion they won't get engagement. Here are some of the best comics I've read that aren't Cape comics and Is they're probably better than most cape comics I have read: > Beauty by Hubert> Miss Don't Touch Me by Hubert> Beautiful Darkness by Fabien VeihlmannIf you go on the archive and search for threads started by the Username Dan Dashly you'll find some good recs.> I Killed Adolf Hitler by Jason
If RCO was so helpful to the industry and getting people into comics than why did the industry not do better than it was like before RCO was a thing?
>>153625926Are there any good places to find this stuff now?
>>153623765No.
>>153621639Marvel Unlimited does have a ton of backissues but not everything. Like they do have the entire complete run of Amazing Spider-Man vol 1 but there are gaps in Spectacular and Web of.
>>153626180Because it simultaneously showed how much better things were years ago.
>>153625879In the future Anon you can just crop that out or use markup to draw over it
>>153625880>kemono dying this monthQrd?
>>153621144Where will I get my I Hate Fairyland once upon a time FCBD issue?
>>153621154>Loose lips>Sink shipYou're a moron if you believe this
>>153626327nobody knows, seems the admin group just disintegrated and they stopped paying the server. mods are AWOL, files dont deliver anymore and it's likely not getting paid for next month
>>153626346It's the Win'o retards thinking their shit is relevant
>>153626357Can't say I'm too surprised. Always seemed like that site was going down and had files breaking. I thought they had their own message board? Did they not say anything there?
>>153626391>hought they had their own message boardalso ded iirc
>>153625848I have no idea how you can double down on this and not see you're only making yourself look like an even bigger retard.
>>153626184No, not really. Earliest batch was on the blogosphere, long lost. Another chunk was luscious net (or was it org) but that site has not tagging system and is a beast of 2000s porn sites. A third used to be in soulseek/dc++ collector groups. The rest were on websites by collectors who did their own scans. Shit one did had an almost complete collection of mexican Chambeadoras.Sadpanda has a sample of each of these groups but not the whole thing.Supposedly the biggest collection is paywalled on a ero BD/print website whose name currently escapes me.
>>153626642Nowhere near as retarded as the retard who thinks he can shame an anonymous poster into shutting up without having a counterargument.
Are most people here upset over this non-Americans?
I feel like this shit where there's a problem and the main reaction is to demonstrate gigachad retard masochist strength by not caring is going to fuck us over later on. You know who whines the least? A fent zombie who doesn't realize his feet have rotted away in his boots.
>>153627029RCO had NOTHING exclusive to itRCO was actually lacking in a lot of ways
>>153627040Desire may be the root of all suffering, but just you try telling the daimyo that.
>>153627029It's the Win'O circlejerk that has lines to EMPIRE or some other low effort digital service ripper and think they are super elite for sucking them off.Seems news were big enough to get them to post outside their threads.
>>153627229Nah, it's a general 4chan thing where fags try to pretend they're some kind of elite knowledgehavers so they can jack off. /a/ does this shit too if a streaming site goes down or something like Mangadex has issues. The funniest is when you'll see people unironically still bring up Madokami, something that has been virtually dead for a long time, has long since closed registrations and hasn't uploaded anything in forever.
samefag harder pls
Oof one of our posts touched a nerve
>>153627375>/a/ does this shit too if a streaming site goes down or something like Mangadex has issues.Yes but no./a/ used to have a lot of people from those groups posting. Their circles are very real and do circlejerk. Specially because they get in fights between groups all the time.Here we barely have groups so it's really just one that decided to base themselves on /co/ while posting/reposting 0day web rips straighs from the group source on Win'O threads./shelf/ fags wont give anyone shit for pirating they all know how hard reading a complete print gets because they actually buy comics.
>>153621144*sigh*They took down 9anime tooMaybe wayback machine can help
>>153621189Outing?Normies dont care about outing, ita not like here where everyone's too pussy to look stupid or misinformed
>>153621201And you're not a faggot because?Frankly, anyone on both sides of the coin are just as retarded as the other.
>>153621201Haha get fucked, ge got some recommendations All gatekeepers must be gatekept from heaven itself
>>153621144I love how everyone's reaction is>Now you HAVE to support the original artist!!!Yes...for comics that are 30-60 years old and the only chance to read one is to pay some comic book guy in a shop $500++ for it in a second hand market that no official artist is ever going to see a part of.
>>153621236I read lady death on there and got into punisher max in my teens thanks to it in 2016Get fucked faggot
>>153622581Then watch anime???>>>/a/ Its down the hall and to the right faggot
>>153621144>Told to support the ACTUAL Artists and writers>Local comic shop is nothing but wall to wall speculator bullshit, only things for same are Funkos and statues. >Owner is a piece of shit.Plus the last town I lived in, all the comic shops closed. There was no place to go to for back issues.
>>153624696You really are a retardWhat creator will "pander" to an audience that was technically pirating from them
>>153625023Youre outing yourself as a lolifag lmaoId rather be broke than be a pedo
>>153621460I like how the modern comic publisher strategy is not >to make anything of quality or anything anyone would want to read. but >to eradicate any ability to read anything but this month's current books of right nowThey are going to keep on publishing intentional rage bait and zero effort to hide it politics and agenda, and FUCK you! You're gonna read this slop any fucking way!
>>153627603Cape comics are a small minority of what I read
>>153627561I told you already. There's no good anime.
>>153625988I mostly stopped since almost all comics have nothing happening in them any longer. Most books are slow burn drama, and you will sometimes see a person in a costume fighting a villain as a single page, or couple of panels aside that has no beginning or conclusion. It's just a quirky page that has them doing hero stuff while working through the "drama" Too damn many books are unreadable shit because for some reason the writers really REALLY really do not want to make a cape book...when they are writing a cape book. Thor has been slow burn drama for about 5 months now. FF has been a slow burn drama for little over two years. They brought back Drakhawk to turn it into a weird story about some teen struggling with cancer. Darkhawk did not even appear in issue #2 or 3. I'm not on board to pay $4-5 for 19 pages of some writer's wannabe screenplay/portfolio piece while they try to level up to film script writing.
Oh no, how will 15 year old Middle Easterners and Brazilians read comics and TikTok parasites "make" content now
>>153627603They put out trades on a regular basis and there are a lot of backissues available on their subscription services. They just can't be comprehensive.
>>153621144Kind of puts the whole modern writers argument of>You whining babies can always go back and read the past decades of stuff!!! I'm not ruining 80s Spider-Man!!Since now we cannot go read that either. not without having to go to some comic shop and paying some 400lb comic shop faggot a few hundred to thousand for it while they smell foul and the place is covered in some of the most disgusting lowlife faggot son Earth who are there to just hang out all day long.
>>153627660>The answer to your question will always be to give Me more money!>And I will still carefully curate what you are allowed to read any damn way!
>>153627660No they don't. Only the biggest mostest important events that are related to whatever movie is coming out right now.
>>153625363>>decades of comments deletedDid that happen before the site went offline or are you assuming they were somehow static content and not part of the same database (you know, like this thread isn't actually an HTML page either)?
>>153627657If it gets people reading old, good comics then what's the problem? Do you get pissed if people start listening to jazz and pop standards because of Fallout?
>>153625399>And they have the audacity to imply it had better scans as if anyone made scans or rips specifically for it.Almost all of it was contributed to libgen who will take literally any kind of upload regardless of quality. If you compared ROM #36 on RCO to the equivalent download from libgen they're pixel identical and no RCO was not uploading to libgen.But as shitty as those scans were they were maybe the only digital record of many titles.
>>153627717Looking at the trades that are being released this month alone shows that isn't true. You're just lazy.
>>153625551>>153625537Because we aren't obligated to your definition of relevance. That clear it up for you?
>>153627603That and generally 99% of everyone cannot give a fuck about some decades old irrelevant book anyway.
>>153627730You men besides the total loss of revenue to the original publisher or artists?
>>153627730The simple fact that it denies any money going back to the publisher or the talent that made them. Starving out the source of the comics to begin with. Theft harms the creators anon. >>153627526retard, you never bought anything so nothing is lost for you at all ever
>>153627730Zip it Aladdin
>>153627730The problem is the piracy.
>>153625880>kemono dying this month will be their 9/11?
>>153627821>Theft harms the creators anon.See >>153621460Not sad about RCO dying and I find the hysteria hilarious but piracy isn't always someone perfectly capable of having affordable access taking a short cut (just half the time)>>153627684There are other resources
>>153621454>>153625979>>153627526Comic shops are nothing but collections for Speculator dealers to keep their shit that they plan to sell on ebay at some point. The one shop in my town has tons of shit for marked up prices on their shelves that are still being sold normal retail in Walmart. Place is filled with He-Man and Power Rangers figures that are still being currently sold in every other retail store for half the price.
>>153627804>>153627821>>153627837Two sides of the same dumb coin. RCO going down didn't end comic piracy. It does mean people too dumb to figure out how to find an alternative are going without for a while until another site becomes a big enough meme.
>>153627684I just really hate comic shops. They are filled with the worst fucking people, and 100% correct on the people that just hang out there all day long. Not buying anything, just hanging out and being creepy/obnoxious.
>>153627879Yes yes we all know torrenting is the super elite hacker genius wizard technique that mere mortals cannot dream of uncovering or knowing about because only the elitest of the elites have ever heard the term. Others have only seen it mentioned on ornate markings in pyramids and temples of antiquity.Seriously you fangs might need to grasp the concept that it's not 1998 any longer and the general public knows what in the fuck a torrent is.
>>153627914I'm not even talking about torrents, but yes that is in fact beyond many people in the smartphone generation who don't even understand file folders.
>>153627914EXCUSE ME?! One needs to have a 12th level intellect to be capable of downloading uTorrent and then searching Pirate Bay for things!!! No mere commoner has the capability to understand such detailed techniques like typing words into a search bar, or pressing a download button!!! We are the guardians of all knowledge and beyond all reproach!
>>153627914Skill issue
>>153627804>publisherWhy should I care?>artistThey get pennies, especially if work was made before certain royalty policies were implemented. I buy collected editions of old stuff I want to read too but I'm under no illusions about whether or not any significant money is actually going to the writers, artists, etc. But why should I give a shit about whether Disney or Warner is seeing a dime? The publishers spent decades fucking over these people whose work made them shitloads of money.Anyway, RCO isn't actually dead. It's given that same screen before and it's up for some people, not up for others, works on mobile for some, doesn't work on mobile for others, etc.
>>153627961So by all means, ensure that they make even LESS money, that will surely cause more books to be published in the future!
>>153627961>It's given that same screen before and it's upIs their Discord still dead?
>>153627914Posts like this remind me that a lot of you retards who can't figure out things like torrenting are just third world morons who shouldn't be allowed to interact with us English-speakers to begin with.
>>153627849Look at how old those posts are. Everywhere. Then try to load any full images or videos. The site has been fucked for a while now
>>153621236Love Everlasting
>>153621558lol "angina". What chapter is this Bear incident? Hell, what chapter is THIS?
YES YESLET ME TASTE YOUR TEARS OH THE TEARS OF UNFATHOMABLE SADNESSYUMMYYUMMY
>>1536278792026 and faggots are still pretending that using a torrent site is some super dooper special master class in outsmarting and outmaneuvering the corporations via a hidden underground Shadowrun style.20 years from now there will still be fat pathetic neets claiming>Oh ho ho! We have very special techniques that guarantee that the chosen few remain aware of the lost episodes of Brandy and Mr Whiskers are kept hidden and safe!
>>153627992I'm confused, what part of that post made you think they do not know how to torrent things?
>>153627914always fun seeing some retarded jeet clearly not know what a torrent is or how to use it screech in frustration.
>>153627581>I had a discussion at ECCC with someone in comics, I’m not going to mention who, about how busy the convention was, and they said that some of the attendees were probably just “Tumblr fans.”>I asked what she meant, and she said that she felt there was a growing group of fans who love the characters and love MOMENTS of stories, but don’t read the actual comics ever. She said that they will buy a CHARACTER X t-shirt in a heartbeat, but don’t own any graphic novels.They will reblog a scene they like from a comic, but never go to an actual comics shop to get that same book.From Gail SimoneSure there's a difference between fans who read through piracy and subhumans who just watch YouTube shorts but it's still the same thing at the end when it comes to comics
>>153628049The fact that YOU (Not some "other" anon) has to rage uncontrollably about it instead of figuring it out for yourself.
>>153628063......what the fuck is wrong about being a fan of a character? Sometimes their books suck. Or they are a very background face in a team book and the team just splashes Batman or wolverine on everything.
>>153628036See >>153627949
>>153628088It's how we get comics that try to appeal more to the Wayne Family Adventures audience
>>153628036Is it 2004 again? Torrentfags like the MySpleen fags have always wanted some kind of capacity to claim they are superior to someone somewhere somehow. They just want that, more than actually gaining the object of their obsession, they want to be able to gloat that they got it and you don't. That is waaaaaay more important that actually landing some race thing they were after.
>>153627914>the general public knows what in the fuck a torrent is.Honestly I don't think this is true. It feels like people have become more and more tech illiterate over the years.
>>153628111The only reason people largely stopped is due to places like RCO or Kisscartoon having shit available right there. The convenience was what made it all worth it. and besides, it's not like that shit is not going to go right back up on some Nigerian server in a week or two at best.
IT'S VERY SIMPLEIf you show me pic related, I don't know what the fuck I'm in for.I don't know what the interior pages are going to look like, I haven't got a clue. There is ZERO advertising here.I'm not going to buy it.This is like buying a music album without having a clue what it sounds like. I don't buy music without first hearing it for free on the radio or whatever.From a business point of view you MUST show your comic away for free, or nobody will buy it.RCO is the only notable advertising that comics have.
>>153628136Long boxShow me
>>153628111In some cases it's just plain illiterate. Multiple alternative sites that currently work just fine have already been mentioned in this thread.
>>153628110I recall a few years ago there was some thread about myspleen, and a few anons were talking about how too many members there are way too wrapped up in this mindset about being one of the special chosen few. Then later on in the thread some myspleen fags did appear and started up their we are the special chosen routine, making the first few anons 100% right. It was kind of insane to see it happen then and there.
>>153628136There's a very simple solution to the piracy issueJust make it official.Have Marvel, DC, whatever just buy or seize RCO (split it up to all their various companies) and then just leave everything the same.And so Marvel gives away all their comics for free.It's not piracy if the company does it themselves.And it would still be the best adveritsing method and they'd make more money than they would if they just shut down the site.
>>153628156They want to sell subscriptions to Marvel Unlimited and DC Universe Infinite so they're not going to do that.
>>153628136This is how I know you are a low functioning esl retard...Because if you ever once walked into a LCS anywhere in thew world you could actually, physically pick up that book, open it, and thumb through it yourself all on your own! And then you could maybe SEE WHAT THE FUCKING FUCK YOU ARE IN FOR....which for the better part of a century and a half was the >Notable advertising that comics have
>>153627973If they were gone gone the Discord would be outright gone and not just wiped I assumed.
>>153628136Wow, you mean like opening up a floppy and seeing what's inside before you buy it?
>cambros>incestflix>motherless>coomer hasn't updated in 7 months and can't load videos anymoreAnd now this, all in a year. What is the world coming to?
>>153628156so how do they make extra speculator money off sales of issues #1, #25, and #50? Or first appearances of certain popular characters like Venom?
>/co/ moralfags while being full of pedoslmao
>>153628146That is true, but I'm not exactly talking about comics this time. Im commenting on that comment about torrents as a whole is all.
>>153628186Comic book shops are not the main method of buying comics anymore.You buy them online now
>>153628225Bulshit.Take your fat ass to a store or you are not a fan and everything you say means less than nothing to me.
>>153628210Speculators are not a reliable customer baseThere is no money to be made in appealing to speculators
>>153628217>moralfagsI pirate a lotI'm critical toward the direct marketI think floppies are overpricedI don't judge people for pirating by itself but dammit I fucking love the sight of ESLs in anguish especially the ones who think it's some moral duty that benefits the industry through their piracy (not scanning, ripping, etc but them just reading it off a site like RCO somehow "helping" comics)
>>153628237Then why do all books reset back to issue #1 every other year? They shifted entirely to selling to speculators about a decade ago.
>>153621144Ok, I always wanted to ask: does their reading counts are boted or heavily inflated? There are series that had millions of reads
>>153628254Yes, and in that time they've gone bankrupt several times and comics as a whole are practically on their deathbedThere's no money in speculation, for neither the buyers nor the sellers
>>153628264The site has been around for a very long time (2016 at least though I've heard it's been around since 2012)A significant amount of the people who use it aren't even AmericansLiterally go on twitter and check the region of the people mourningIt's usually people from Argentina, Mexico, France, Brazil, Saudi Arabia, Turkey, Vietnam, Indonesia, etc
>>153628234The fast food chain that isn't on Uber Eats is the fast food chain that goes out of business
cbr is for retardsi was retarded enough to wait and download pile of compressed folders a.k.a cbr shit back when i was a retarded pubert 15 years agoyou now, back when i was a retarded ass mongloid who didnt know about things
>>153625911>What makes you think they won't go after those afterwards too? Libgen is hosted in Russia. Its job is to archive far more than magazines, anon. The most the US/EU can do is go after their registrar every so often.Try to actually learn about this stuff before blathering what makes sense in your head.
>>153628243BasedI pirate everything, hell, I'm watching pirated anime as we speak, but I don't sit around talking about how I'm some kind of freedom fighter because of it.I pirate because I'm not giving money to corpos unless they're a corpo I like and I hate pretty much all corpos, simple as.
>>153628392>when i was a retarded ass mongloid>was
>>153628136>If you show me pic related, I don't know what the fuck I'm in for.You should know by now. You're in for garbage.
>>153628295People don't like to admit it, but a significant proportion of the traffic to free forms of entertainment are third worlders.It's why people say that things like trailer views, online impressions, and yes, pirate numbers, don't mean shit, because a view from a middle class American is counted the same as a view from an Indonesian slum-dweller, even though those views are not equivalent at all in value.
>>153628295>>153628454While this is true, it can be more generally said as>most people who pirate were never going to be customersIf they couldn't pirate it, they wouldn't have bought it at all.This includes those third worlders, but it also includes many first worlders as well
>>153628243Weird cope but ok
>>153628217There's no moralfagging, it's unironic shills from one or some of he publishers which is why their arguments always stress that piracy is damaging the publishers.
>>153628490They really don't want to admit this because it deflates their fantasy and would get them fired, but it's the truth. There are only a few comics I'd be willing to spend money on and almost none of them are cape comics from the 21st century. After One More Day I would never trust a modern Marvel comic to not be horrible without checking it out first and after the I.C.E. and Trump tantrums the same now goes for DC. The sad part is I'd actually like to find something I like to try to vote with my wallet but it appears I'm going to have to learn French and/or Japanese to do that. They said they would rather burn the industry down than let a conservative voice in and that's what they're going to get.
>>153628490This is also true, for a lot of current comics if I couldn't read them for free I just wouldn't read them, and that's largely what I already do anyways.
>>153627623Not our problem
>>153628295Nta, but I remember that this marvel employee had a meltdown because it more recent Champions series had like a million of accumulated views and it surprised me that many people were interested on reading it.
>>153625850>>153628392Why not just get cdisplayex?
>>153627998Loaded immediately, I'm not doubting you but so far it's no worse than coomer
Who gives a shit, nobody should be paying this woketard infestedindustry any mind, not even through piracy.
>>153628186>just go the comic store 40 kms away in bumfuck nowhere district to get raped by niggers after buying anything >nevermind the fact that many of the piracy readers are third-worlders that don't have a fucking LCS available to them
>>153628627now click on an image
>>153627660They've been intentionally publishing their Spider-Man nibus out of order for almost twenty years for no reason other than to make it impossible to actually read it in order.
>>153628526Let me make this clearI don't give a rat's ass if you pirate but if you do and your favorite series gets canned you have ZERO right to complain if you COULD have supported it legitimatelyinb4 word of mouthDoesn't apply if you give out your piracy methods like candy on Halloweeninb4 multi million dollar companiesThis is fucking comics we're talking aboutEvery sale actually matters here and 15 to 20k people is a chump amountAnd besides, you can't pull this excuse for non Marvel/DC publishers
>>153627804>>153627821All of the American Cape artists I would want to read have passed away and by all rights their stories should have passed into the public domain years ago but haven't due to politically bribery
>>153628392>You mean there are actual applications for viewing comic book archive formats?This is the part where you pretend to have a reason not to use them
>>153628619I don't download comics to read them because I don't feel like storing them. If I'm downloading it's because I want to storytime them which is why I have to convert and then exract them.>>153628662I pirate old comics you faggot because there's nothing now worth reading.
>>153628490>most people who pirate were never going to be customersThe.EU commissioned a report on piracy which they immediately suppressed as soon as they read this exact conclusion. It leaked anyway somehow.
>>153628454It kind of reminds me how the biggest people not just into archiving manga but also wiki writing, cataloging, etc aren't Americans or even the Japanese (lord knows how anal they get) but rather people from Eastern Europe or SEA
>>153628694>I don't download comics to read them because I don't feel like storing themOh noYour precious comfort zones
>>153628639Ohhhhh A retard is me
>>153621144NO fuck. You can't even pirate decades old comics no one is profiting from anymore these days.>>153621154The comments on everything besides new releases were gone after the site stopped using Disqus.
>>153628619>>153628692>install third party shit in your drive to view fucking jpgswew 4chan is quite something else. it is fascinating, it has to be studied!lemme guess lemme guess, you use steam to play games instead of just downloading the game in one of the 1000 sites? you install spotify in your drive to listen to and ***store**** music instead of the billion sites out of there? KEK you guys are quite the specimens
>>153628668>I demand communism for reasons!The cry of the leftist poorfag.
>>153628538>I would never trust a modern Marvel comic to not be horrible without checking it out first >and after the I.C.E. and Trump tantrums the same now goes for DC.I just woke up, but that's little excuse for it to take me 4 readings if this sentence to understand you didn't mean DC the location. Now that I'm conscious, yes I agree completely with this sentiment. I buy trades from time to time, but it's got to be something that was great that gets mentioned here for me to even know to look. Which does nothing for their issue to issue sales tracking. Also I'm in Australia, it's horrific swing the price stickers on my old floppies. 7.95 for a Superman/Batman #35, 9.95 for a Marvel Adventures two in one. But I cherish this bargain with the incredibly original Blackwing design
>>153628490>>153628538Seems especially true in the world of comics where it can be very fucking hard to get one's hands on a book at all. Comics are just not sold in many places at all. Most towns don't have a local comic shop any longer. They either went under in one of the many recessions, or they shifted over to pokemon cards and funkos. Even then most shops only get a certain number of books a month that they can afford to order. Sometimes they will not bother ordering small scale books at all since they never sell.
>>153628751Lurk moar
>>153628718I'm not buying modern slop comics, publisher shill.
>>153628088Nothing, but they're pandering to people who aren't spending money on comics in the hopes that they will. It would be like exclusively catering to people who read comics via storytimes
>>153628132>and besides, it's not like that shit is not going to go right back up on some Nigerian server in a week or two at best.This, are we really pretending it will not be up somewhere else in a week?
Read comics online still isn't working or showing any signs of life for me.What saves me is that there's a YouTube channel that uploaded the Beneath the Trees Where Nobody Sees comics (I'm still waiting for part 3).https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLMbrkj_KeV3qJ232e_vDb7TQ6G9FpkRHR
>>153628804I know other pirate sites will always exist, but RCO had a huge library even for obscure comics, and it had a cozy UX.
>>153628097That's also how we get tv and film adaptations.
>>153628662>you can't pull this excuse for non Marvel/DC publishersSo you don't want publishers to do their job and bail themselves out to continue publishing comics? I guess the money really is just for show.
>>153628851Ahh yes, I love TV and film adaptations!
I was in the middle of reading Uncanny X-men (2013)...
>>153628860>So you don't want publishers to do their job and bail themselves out to continue publishing comics?I meant how people argue that buying comics doesn't actually support creators because they were already paid but not every comic is made on a page rate basisIt's more frustrating with a non-Marvel/DC title because the cancelation line is much lower
>>153628186I don't know how Anons do this. Every rural and suburban place I've lived is been over 100 miles to the nearest comic shop and they usually have a very limited and disorganized selection. When I lived in a major metropolitan area there were definitely a lot more shops and they were all much closer but they legally had nothing except issues that came out in the last month or two and when then not even all the titles. I've never walked into a comic shop and been able to just find anything I want. The closest has been ordering trade paperback on Barnes and Noble's website and then begging random Anons to do storytimes on here. Other than that it's all about torrenting or using stuff like RCO
>>153628880They make a shitload more money than any comic so they aren't going anywhere. cry more faggot
>>153628844>Relying on a fucking YouTuberHOLYFUCKINGNEWFAGGOT
>>153628063Gail is an interesting in-between because she has a lot of the same views and opinions on characters as "Tumblr fans" but actually did like reading comics, and helped to make some tumblr headcanons canon. Before her there was Jennifer Eisenman ("Devin Grayson") who is responsible for Nightwing being forever ruined due to butt jokes. Sometimes gate keeping exists for a good reason.
>>153628916Revenue != profitMaking $500 million means fuckall if they spent $600 million making and advertising the damn thing.
>>153628890that the one with all the Celestials? it's not great, nice ideas, decent execution, but it really needed not to be so full of itself which, paradoxically, means it needed to be anything but an X-Men title
>>153628264I feel like it just counts all clicks as reads >>153628307I agree with you for the most part but this doesn't work because In N Out's whole thing is they're so popular they don't have to be on Uber Eats
>>153628730>a second retard has hit the kemono
>>153628920Well, at least I still have somewhere to read the Beneath the Trees Where Nobody Sees comics.I also remember participating in some dedicated threads when the issues were published.We even created a character there who was the antithesis/opposite of Samantha.https://desuarchive.org/co/thread/151468455/#151494947https://desuarchive.org/co/thread/152154657/#152163991https://desuarchive.org/co/thread/152700316/#152733487
>>153628925>who is responsible for Nightwing being forever ruined due to butt jokes.You're weak if that ruined nightwing for you
>>153621144>Go to readcomicsonline>Randomly click anywhere on the page>'26 pop-ups blocked'Shirley there's a better site than this
>>153628989Tumblr fan detected. She raped Nightwing, and not metaphorically.
>>153621154>>Abhorrent comment sectionHave you been in a coma for the last 9 months? Discus pulled out, RCO doesn't have a comment section anymore.
>>153628694Fair enough. Just downloading Spider-Man up to the clone saga took up like 300GB on my external drive. If live to download the entire Marvel & DC collections just to have them but I don't have like 50TB to burn on just that right now. >>153628762You can't view cbr on the default image viewer and even if you could it often gives you trouble cycling through the pages whereas cdisplayex is set up like a reader UI. Also, I uninstalled my default image viewer and replaced it with FastStone because it's better.>>153628771I'm a National Socialist and "Whoso mocketh the poor reproacheth his Maker: and he that is glad at calamities shall not be unpunished." Proverbs 17:5.
>>153628910>It's more frustrating with a non-Marvel/DC title because the cancelation line is much lowerThat's simply one of many benefits of having a less insane editorials.
>>153628914Have you tried not living in Santa Shithole, Pedro?
>>153628851Those are even worse nowadays. > Black Starfire the lesbian cucks Nightwing who is a heckin racist White Man!
I'm gonna laugh like a fucking madman if there are less LOCG reviews than usual this Wednesday
>>153629078I literally live in Los Angeles. Is there some mythical city built around comic book stores that I'm unaware of?
>>153628851>>153628880Y the Last Man didn't get an adaptation because TikTok wouldn't shut up about itInvincible had a fanbase but hardly anything resembling a modern internet one until the show came outThe Boys?
>>153622855you gotta teach the new blood somehow as if nobody tells em the basics they'll never learn SHIT. "just google it"
>>153629006>What is adblockFucking zoomers I swear
>>153629108>Y the Last Man didn't get an adaptation because TikTok wouldn't shut up about itYou know that's a poster from the adaptation right?
>>153629315Yeah, I knowI'm saying TikTok fans and Tumblr fans have no bearing on what gets adapted or notFucking Revival got an adaptation recently
Do these other sites like readallcomics and batcave have Bronze Age Superman and Action Comics?
Did...did NONE of these guys have a pull list?
>>153629390Nevermind, I checked and they do so I'm ok for the moment until they get taken down.
>>153629390I think the things those site-alikes won't also have up will be mostly the obscure stuff RCO bothered to archive, shit like Warlock 5 or things from Comico.
>>153628762Nigga about half your new file formats start with the file signature PK because they're just zipfiles
>>153628762There are decent UX reasons to use a gallery reader that Windows Explorer won't give you grampa
>>153628826Oh hell no son I'm just suggesting your phone won't explode if you download a couple archives
>>153628925>Eisenman>This is our theorized original family name before the patriarch came to Ellis Island and changed it I would really, REALLY prefer not to be related to her
>>153629511>phoneWhy would I be doing anything like this on my fucking phone?
Piracy is FUCKING dead...
>>153629630....for the mentally retarded
List of general opinion changes you can accredit to RCO being a source of mass piracy >Gwen Stacy revisionism dying>Kents discourse concerning their living status being revived>Pre-Crisis Bronze Age Superman being seen as an underrated pinnacle of the character's history with Post-Crisis being seen as a mistake>Deathstroke no longer being seen as cool>Somehow flipping the dynamic between New Teen Titans vs Teen Titans 2003 discourse>Justice League International getting a new wave of appreciation (Booster Gold in particular being loved) >People going off to defend Tony's rogues gallery and how they're underused today What else have you noticed?
>>153621144I pirate comics but it's kinda annoying to me these newfag comic fans are too cheap to buy books out in the wild, I been buying and selling comics off and on since I was 4 years old (local book store as a kid did trade ins before I knew other ways) comics are such a cheap hobby but they act like it's costly, only costly for key issues and old shit. Most I've ever paid for a comic like 50 bucks, comics are dirt cheap on the used market too, I mean they got dollar bins and shit.
>>153629729>Pre-Crisis Bronze Age Superman being seen as an underrated pinnacle of the character's history with Post-Crisis being seen as a mistakeI read the John Byrne reboot to try get into Superman and didn't get the hype, I usually just downloaded cbr files and only got turned onto RCO because I wanted to read Bronze Age Superman and getcomics didn't have it. It definitely gave me opinions about which version is better.
>>153621144Downloading/torrenting is better because you can use a nice reader and not some shitty site.
>>153629729>>Pre-Crisis Bronze Age Superman being seen as an underrated pinnacle of the character's history with Post-Crisis being seen as a mistakeToo bad these people weren't alive in the 80s to actually buy these books, huh?
>>153629729>Gwen Stacy revisionism dying>Kents discourse concerning their living status being revived>Somehow flipping the dynamic between New Teen Titans vs Teen Titans 2003 discourseCan you please translate what this means for someone who completely dropped comics forums years ago, due to the high amounts of fake fans and retards with low standards.
>>153629729Hank Pym's entire fanbase is predicated on people from other countries having access to Avengers Academy, WCA and Mighty Avengers and becoming a fan of him and his mental struggles. There's also Frank Cho's online fanbase which is strictly predicated on piracy because he hasn't worked outside of the convention circle for years. People read Bendis' entire works and were able to notice his weaknesses as a writer far better. There's respect for what he did in the early 2000's, but people having access to Alias, Ultimate Spidey, Daredevil etc is what got people to actually know all his style. There's also minor fanbases like Captain America and New Gods' whose entire existence can be tracked to RCO and piracy sites, because Marvel nor DC have been arsed to compile their seminal runs as of late. Oh yeah, people also know how bad Mark Millar can get (Unfunnies) simply because of RCO. I remember that comic having hundreds of comments back before the purge of 2022. I also think that Crossed's entire fanbase can be traced to RCO, Badlands has remained on the "hot" tab for years already.
>>153629975>Gwen Stacy revisionism dyingPeople think Gwen and Peter's relationship was this perfect bond or that she knew Peter was Spider-Man or whatever nonsense>Kents discourse concerning their living status being revivedWhether or not the Kents should be alive or notSuperman's original origin story outright had them die shortly after he became an adult>Somehow flipping the dynamic between New Teen Titans vs Teen Titans 2003 discoursePeople on the former's side are now early to mid 20 something and below people who have zero nostalgia for the 2003 cartoonThe latter's side in the discourse being built off of mid to late 20 somethings and older BECAUSE they're the group that watched the show
It's back?
>>153629988>and his mental strugglesYou think these B-List (I'm being nice) and below characters attaining fanbases in foreign countries has to do with something incidentally intrinsic about them?IIRC someone mentioned Lobo sold better in Latin American markets because the blue collar macho man satire resonated betterI check locations for diehard Superman fans and they tend to be from the Middle East of all places (bonus points if they don't care for Absolute Superman for how it wrote the Al Ghuls)>People read Bendis' entire works and were able to notice his weaknesses as a writer far better.See, that's the weird thingBendis is in this position where /co/ admittedly still miffed over his work in the 2010's while all these young faces reading USM for the first time don't get the resentmentSure they'll be critical over his post-peter principal output at Marvel (and DC) but even if they don't like how he botched GotG or well, everything with Riri they're more lenient on his output because his 2000's work at Marvel is so prevalent is a go-to for new readers
>>153630052No.
>>153629975A lot of Gwenfag writers/editors over the years sold Gwen as Ms. Perfect when under Ditko she was a mean bitch and under Romita, a frequently-crying bitch.
>>153628802Does anyone order direct? Like is there a viable method to get issues delivered to you in a cost effective manner?For sure in Aus the situation is pretty dire. No comic shop in my town. There's at least one big comic store in the city, but it's 3 hours round trip on public transport on the one day a week I go in to the city. Real hard to justify going there if there's not something I specifically want and I'd call ahead to get it reserved
>>153630089as someone that got into comics post-Civil War I actually got to read Bendis at his "peak" of popularity, and while I don't resent him that much since he didn't ruin characters I cared about (X-Men, classic Avengers, DC characters), I can admit that his writing parsed a lot better for me when I was a teenager and I could chuckle at Doctor Doom calling Ms Marvel "cow". Now I read the same stuff and I cringe hard. So yeah, there's massive respect for what he did in the 2000s and younger people tend to give him a pass because of it. They will tell you "Oh yeah I fucking love Ultimate Spider-Man, but don't touch anything after Ultimatum" without resenting the guy. As for the b-list characters attaining fanbases because of different value systems and cultures? Absolutely. I remember Marvel Mexico attaching the Stracynzki/Gillen era Thor floppies to the Daredevil book because Daredevil has always been somewhat popular in this country because of his Catholic faith and how his life is a continuous soap era drama. He also had a run back then in the 70s where he was called Diabolico, and he sold very well, this was before the Frank Miller reinvention even.
>>153629988The fact that Crossed has a more noticeable fanbase online than the Mignolaverse, Grendel, Madman, Usagi Yojimbo, etc has left me, well not exactly saddened or disappointed just perplexed
>>153630168Mail fucking mangles all floppies that ship, and they always take longer to get there. Comics come out on Wednesday, comics come in the mail Saturday or next Monday. So no one wants to direct order shit.
>>153622562I subscribe to the DC App and still would just go to RCO. It was so much easier.
>>153630023>>153630161Thank you for clarifying. I'm still confused what the Teen Titans conflict is about.
>>153628762Windows Photos is fucking shit, half the time it skips ahead to the end for no fucking reason
>>153630752>I'm still confused what the Teen Titans conflict is about.Back then it was old people upset over how Teen Titans 2003 (the cartoon) deviated from the comics with young people on the show's side saying the comics were unappealing to themSomehow it's the other way around now
>>153628762cbr readers are older than you, retard.
>mfw storytime threads will become relevant again
The Gabe Newell quote aged like milk. Apparently more people pirated PlayStation IP games hitting PC than actually bought it on Steam
>>153628771If you wanna make this political, be glad you weren't on Boots Riley discourse.Anyway, piracy was always bound to happen and it always annoyed me this moralfagging. If I wanted to spend $4 for any stuff that itnerested me back in my best days, I would just buy comics nonstop. And with how comixology changed it layout and made some important changes, I knew RCO days were numbered.
>>153630357>Crossed has a more noticeable fanbase online than the Mignolaverse, Grendel, Madman, Usagi Yojimbo, etc>MignolaverseIt does? I always thought Hellboy and the whole universe was decently well known. Though I guess now that I think about it I've never really seen it talked about online. I just figured I never looked in the right places.
>>153630818People born after 9/11 actually care about 80s Teen Titans comics?Zoomers grew up with anime being a lot more accessible, whereas it was previously niche, so I would've thought the 2003 cartoon would appeal to them.
>>153630950Sorry for bringing up Xitter but I saw someone complain about Rex Splode's design in the show having gone through "demignolafication" (the goggles being changed)Almost NOBODY could piece together what that meant or could mean
>>153630818>>153630752I love 2003-2011 run, but it's mostly pure nostalgia and there's good reason why nobody talks about Kid Devil, Ravager (ok this one is a bit better) or Superboy even having a relationship with Cassie. Even YJ 2019 didn't have much of it. Also god it was so edgy sometimes, with or without Johns. Make sense people like cartoon more, even I personally don't have nostalgia for it.Speaking of it, god i heavily disliked backed when Young Justice cartoon deviated from source material and the show focusing mostly on Blue Beetle in S2 and older team and not Tim Drake at all was one of many reasons why "best Robin" has become so irrelevent.
>>153630969>Zoomers grew up with anime being a lot more accessible, whereas it was previously niche, so I would've thought the 2003 cartoon would appeal to them.It's not completely black and white and there are still young fans of the show who watched it long after it ended or was even aired but a sizable portion of the younger fanbase into cape comics via piracy are NTT fans so when the conversation is brought up between the comics vs the show, the former's side is surprisingly full of people barely in their 20's at mostIt goes back to why they don't see Slade as cool whereas in contrast he was raved a lot in the 2000's and 2010's
>>153622340You buy a comic to read it multiple times, it makes more sense to buy the book you know you like then gambling on it. Also network television was free and people still bought VHS tapes and DVDs of the shows they were fans of.
>>153621144Yeah, I noticed that a few minutes ago when I tried accessing the site to check out Sex Criminals. Apparently they are making a t.v. show on the comic.
>>153628049Only one who has plumbed the iron bound book of Skelos and deciphered its mysteries from the time when Atlantis was young could possibly even begin to fathom how to torrent! That is assuming their sanity remained intact...
>>153629729Just look at what's at the top od it. For long time TWD, later Invincible. Both Kirkman's books. the Boys was always a close second/third. Look at how much Invincible has gotten a lot of rightful criticism of how stupid the characters are that make Dinosaur look actually the most consistent, even if also beyond dumb.To say nothing of Ultimate Spider-Man, Batman Rebirth and onward past-King runs and Archie Sonic as well.
>>153629988Maybe I'm in the minority but I like his and Wasp's dynamic in Earth's Mightiest Heroes and that's how I became an Ant-Man/Giant Man fan. I really hated how they changed his character in the movie and wrote him out of Ultron's story completely.
>>153631122>For long time TWD, later Invincible. Both Kirkman's books.That's just from the adaptationsThe discourse would've arrived regardless It's not like Crossed where it's no longer being printed
>still no replacement for 32P
>>153630936We’ll just get far fewer of them.
>>153631711>We’ll just get far fewer of them.You're such a fucking retard it hurts
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