A gloomy day

[cleolinda]

Filthy, nasty, stormy weather today. In yet more evidence that I am wholly solar-powered, I did nothing but curl up in the recliner and watch episodes of A Haunting on the Discovery Channel (the one about Dartford Cemetery was particularly good, if cheesy) and shudder at the mere thought of being a productive member of society

Comments

[reticent_lass]

they're taking away scans_daily?! Do they realize how much shit people have bought because of that site? That's the only reason I have the first volume of The Order, or Maus, or Ex Machina, or Young Avengers, or practically any comics at all. scans_daily was how I vetted a character, or an artist, or a writer or a series or pretty much any comics purchase ever. It was a great way to expose webcomics, too. We were careful; there was always less than half a comic book up, if that, and we gave all credit to the artists and writers and urged everyone to buy anything particularly good. It was GREAT and now it's GONE.

LJ stole scans_daily. That's scans every day.

And that's TERRIBLE.

[cleolinda]

Yeah, SD is pretty much entirely how I got into Alan Moore.

[kijikun]

I've been informed by someone on my f-list that those us who bought stuff after seeing it on scans_daily are in the minority and that it was all dirt piracy.

[jwaneeta]

I bought all the TBPs of Ex Machina because I saw it on scans_daily. I've bough so much stuff, stuff that wasn't on my radar before scans_daily. DAMN THIS

[sabra_n]

The stupid thing is that the community got strict about not allowing full-issue scans a long time ago. It's all there to tease. Which is why I legally got into everything from Fables to Runaways.

[mogumogu]

Scans_Daily taught me so much about comics and what is awesome and what is not!

[tiffanynichelle]

SD being gone sucks. I liked to flip by there every now and again, mostly to check out the old comics they'd post. I know that they were violating copyright but jeez SD has always been an open secret so why would someone snitch?

[maisontv]

Scans-daily is how I got into American comics. I've bought most of my stuff because of posts on that comm. (Runaways, Young Avengers, The Authority, Nextwave. Hell, I wouldn't have even known the new Blue Beetle existed, let alone how hard it rocked, if it wasn't for that community.)

I mean, come on. THE INTERNET JESUS (aka Warren Ellis) HIMSELF posted there on occasion, and even gave the comm one year paid LJ time.