DCP how badly is it hurting the industry?

[TheCorpulent1]

I've often wondered if you can get trades on a Kindle. But I'd want one that looks better than the Kindle, which is, to be frank, ridiculously ugly.

 

[DoomJester]

Pretty cool. But comics need the two page aspect... I mean, the big splashes and things. Sometimes you need to be able to read a whole page at once, and sometimes you need two pages at once. If you are up for it, just load your jpegs onto an iPhone... not that it is the most fun, but when you are bored...

 

[TheCorpulent1]

I have a widescreen monitor, so that's not a problem for me.

 

[DoomJester]

Actually... the digital comics are part of the reason I want to hook up this second monitor I have. Is it helpful?

 

[Colossal Spoons]

I already buy a ton. 90% of what I download, I buy in TPB and the other 10%, the g/f buys.

 

[Bubonic]

Now that I think of it, the bulk of what must be downloaded threw torrents is back issues.
So in reality it isn't the comic company being hurt, but maybe the comic book guys?

Most comic dealers have loads and loads of back issues, sometimes reasonably priced (basically got the complete Dan Ketch series for 50 cents an issue since I bought them all at once) but a lot of it is overpriced as well, spidey comics from the late 80's early 90's go from 4$ an issue to 10$ or more... Frigging exploitative bullcrap...

 

[fifthfiend]

I've often wondered if you can get trades on a Kindle. But I'd want one that looks better than the Kindle, which is, to be frank, ridiculously ugly.

I don't think the Kindle does color, it uses that e-ink stuff they have now.

 

[MyPokerShirt]

A Couple of Thousand downloads a month is all that is lost. Seeing as the big books are on about 100,000 and that used to be like 4 million it seems pretty bloody evident that it isn't DCP harming the industry, it's just a lack of interest in a medium dominated by superheroes and where you pay £3 for 23pages that take 15 minutes to read. Why would the general population do that when you can pay £5 for a two-hour dvd or a two-week-long read with a good book? Heck, i'm reading Crime and Punishment right now and it cost me less than a comic.


However the major barrier to me buying comics is that I simply use DCP and then buy the trades of those I like when I get a good influx of cash. Otherwise I might actually buy more...

 

[gdatruth]

It goes both ways. DCP got me back into comics & posting on boards such as these. DCP also allows me to sample new comics that I would have not been interested in otherwise.

in addition it is easier to find a back issue on my computer's hard drive than boxes of books in the back of my closet.

 

[Sugarculted]

Thanks to downloading, I'm buying so much more. If it wasn't for the internets, The Walking Dead, Invincible, NEXTwave, Exiles, and Y:The Last Man wouldn't be on my shelf right now.
I do download, a lot. But whatever I like, I buy. Comic book companies just need some sort of 'iTunes' for their comics

 

[TheCorpulent1]

I don't think the Kindle does color, it uses that e-ink stuff they have now.

They don't have color e-ink? My freakin' pen has color ink. Stupid technology.

 

[randyf]

trying to read all your comics on a laptop monitor is like having your eyeballs ****ed inside-out

Try on this monitor:

My 24" display can pivot and project a page at near poster-sized proportions. Now I certainly can't cuddle up to this baby, but with my ageing eyes I can lean back in my high back office chair, and click through my comics as if they were framed posters! In regular position (16:10 aspect ratio), it fits two pages at just over the regular size of a comic book, so I can also appreciate those two page spreads. (Sorry about everything being dark, but I had to turn off the flash in order to avoid reflections off this big boy.)

 

[Sugarculted]

That is sweeeet

 

[Themanofbat]

The only stuff I download is either stuff that would be expensive to blind buy, and stuff that's not in print. TMNT is one of the latter. And it pisses me off that it's not in print or online. If they just came out with a tpb of the first series, I'd buy it instantly. But apparently, they hate money over at Mirage.

I only have the first dozen issues, with #3 onward being first prints. (#1 being a 4th print, and #2 being a 2nd print). The funny thing about #3 (as it was for the first 3 issues) is that it's bigger than regular comic size format.

lol...

 

[Themanofbat]

And for the record, I'd rather read something at the store before deciding if I want to buy it regularly rather than reading it online...

I have never downloaded a comic in my life...

 

[Sandman138]

And for the record, I'd rather read something at the store before deciding if I want to buy it regularly rather than reading it online...

I used to be all about that but I got sick of getting dirty looks from eyes hidden behind a wall of acne at register.

 

[TheCorpulent1]

And for the record, I'd rather read something at the store before deciding if I want to buy it regularly rather than reading it online...

I have never downloaded a comic in my life...

What's the difference, really?

 

[iloveclones]

Try on this monitor:

My 24" display can pivot and project a page at near poster-sized proportions. Now I certainly can't cuddle up to this baby, but with my ageing eyes I can lean back in my high back office chair, and click through my comics as if they were framed posters! In regular position (16:10 aspect ratio), it fits two pages at just over the regular size of a comic book, so I can also appreciate those two page spreads. (Sorry about everything being dark, but I had to turn off the flash in order to avoid reflections off this big boy.)

Niiiiice. When I make my comic book room, that will definately be a part of it.

 

[TheCorpulent1]

A whole room devoted to comics. My God, man... could such a beautiful thing ever truly be permitted to exist?

 

[iloveclones]

My girlfriend and I are looking for a slightly bigger house, and this is my one requirement. I don't need a garage, I don't need a yard (cutting grass is just time away from my comics), crap, I don't even mind if I'm relegated to a Pittsburgh potty (a mainstay of 'burgh real estate, a crapper in the basement). But the Comic Book Room is non-negotiable. Funny thing is, though, every house we look at, I find a reasonably sized room (say, 20'x20' ), and she finds something about the size of a closet. But the dream remains....

 

[TheCorpulent1]

You hold onto that dream, clonesy, and you never let it go. For all of us.

 

[iloveclones]

I'm sure it will cost me a lifetime of tea and crumpet movies, but I will take one for the team...

 

[TheCorpulent1]

Hey, some of those tea and crumpet movies aren't so bad. Ever see About a Boy?

 

[Themanofbat]

I have an area on the 2nd floor of my house dedicated to my 35+ comic boxes (as well as 4 full book shelves on TPB's & GN's).

My wife is awesome...

 

[Themanofbat]

What's the difference, really?

There really is no difference other than I'd rather do it the "old-fashioned" way.



And oddly enough enough, when I read the reviews and some of you guys (there's a few who's opinions I respect) go on and on about how great certain books are, they get placed in my mind as comics to check out when I go to the store.

So my "checking things out via the internet" is word of mouth from some of you guys.