Oy! Scans Daily MADE comics fans!
Someone unknown got
scans_daily deleted off LJ for copyright violations. One of the mods explains what they currently know, and asks for everyone to refrain from pointing fingers.
However... if it was the work of an industry insider, that person is STUPID -- I've bought twice as many trade collections in the last six months than I did in the three previous years because of stuff I saw on scans daily. It was a wonderful way to get your friends into comics, because you could show them intriguing little bits.
Fortunately, there is an IJ asylum that can be utilized.
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However... if it was the work of an industry insider, that person is STUPID -- I've bought twice as many trade collections in the last six months than I did in the three previous years because of stuff I saw on scans daily. It was a wonderful way to get your friends into comics, because you could show them intriguing little bits.
Fortunately, there is an IJ asylum that can be utilized.
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One of the mods is saying it was copyright infringement. Whether Peter David reported it as such instead of abuse...well, who knows.
I'm just depressed. So many years of great discussions, so many memories, wiped out.
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comic book resources (http://www.comicbookresources.com/)
newsarama (http://newsarama.com/)
Those are ones I know off the top of my head that cover a range of things from every company. Not to mention the individual company websites and the individual sites/ twitter feeds, etc. of various creators.
Or, for instance, the
Things these communities have in common would be lack of pirated material and lack of telling creators to die in a fire or fuck off. (Okay, the latter two probably happen on newsarama or cbr message boards, I can't vouch for that.)
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Nor do they discuss Superdictionary.
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I do think fandom communities tend to find ways to survive.
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...and that's terrible.
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And I know the newsarama & cbr message boards are every bit as bad as what i dislike about s_d.
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There was a lot of brat-entitlement there, but it also just worked for me better than a lot of the comics boards and comms. (a lot of them only discuss the new issues, and vague references to events that don't make any sense if you haven't already read it.) At scans daily I could look at scans and decide which trades to ask the bookstore to order for me, or getting interested in a character I'd never heard of in a fic and running over to flip through the tags to get his backstory. (or just find out what he looks like, but the 'you don't have to describe characters because everybody reading the fic is already a fan' thing is a whole other rant.)
I'll miss it.
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