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General Comics Chat: Comics on DVD

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    • CommentAuthorgreg75
    • CommentTimeMar 1st 2010
     
    Can anyone tell me this-Are they illegal?I'm thinking they've got to be but the guys who were selling them at the Nottingham Comic Mart were all comic shop owners.If they're legal then why hasn't it brought back issue prices down?
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    There are legal ones, nice fancy ones of Spider-Man and other Marvel stuff. There are also plenty of illegal ones too, so be careful.
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      CommentAuthorOK Comics
    • CommentTimeMar 1st 2010
     
    I think a combination of bootleg comics on DVD, millions of people selling back issues on ebay from home, mart and convention dealers selling stuff for 50p or a pound, piling them high and selling them cheap, and the recession have definitely brought the value of back issue comics down...

    Do you find it difficult to read your comics in the bath if they're on DVD? Or on the bus? Or in bed?
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    I'd never want to read any on DVD. And I'm in two minds of the whole digital thing, comics on the iPhone may bring in new fans to comics in general, but personal I'd rather sit with an actual paper comic.
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    I can never read in the bath, apart from taking showers, i'd be too scared of getting them wet...
    • CommentAuthorLee
    • CommentTimeMar 1st 2010
     
    I have a DVD of the early issues of the key 60s Marvel books, but is a pain to read. It is official.

    I'd never read comics in the bath. That's where I read Empire.
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    i have an er, unofficial Transformers dvd with all the british and american comics on, instruction scans for about 500 toys and catalogue scans. i got it with jetfire when i bought him as the guy didn't have the instructions. i don't like reading the comics on a screen. rubbish.
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    Before I go any further I have bought comics on DVD.
    90% of the collections on sale are probably illegal. Marvel have released a few collections officially but from what I've seen even these have been pirated. And other than the Mad collections that's all I know of officially.
    Having said that it is possible to accumulate a extremely large and varied collection of comics on DVD purchased through ebay sellers (last one I noticed was the 2000AD/Judge Dredd Megazine collections which appeared a few months back).
    It is also quite easy to get ripped off ~ one seller recently listed copies of TV21, if I remember rightly 20 issues to a disc. The full collection would/should fit on a single DVD. And the issues are probably downloaded from a site that anybody with a R*p*d*h*r* account can access. The aforementioned 2000AD collection was available for £11.99 from one ebay seller, £30 from another. And again probably sourced from the same site.
    The scanned issues vary greatly in quality. These aren't restored classics re-issued by the publisher in a collection. These are invariably somebody's read & dog-eared copies.
    They are uncomfortable to read on a computer monitor particularly if the flicker/refresh rate is noticeable, so it's not a case of sitting down and wading through a pile of 20 or 30 comics. 4 or 5 is probably the maximum. And as yet there is no other way of reading them without subjecting yourself to the possibilty of excessive eyestrain (there isn't an ebook reader with a large enough screen that can handle unconverted cbr files).
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      CommentAuthorOK Comics
    • CommentTimeMar 2nd 2010
     
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    Ahhh! A challenge! And so I went trawling through the net last night (for an hour after I watched 2 and 1/2 Men). Last week's comics are still available, there were a few purporting to be from this week's releases, and the older issues/collections are still available. All R*p*d*h*r*. And (honestly) I didn't download any.

    Now the two Rush bootlegs were a different matter.
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    wait, wait, wait... you watch 2 and 1/2 men?!! What kind of monster are you?!
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    Two and a Half Men? Is that the one with the bloke who weirdly looks like Mathew Broderick would look if he’d lost a bad fight with Life and Charlie Sheen (who weirdly looks like Charlie Sheen if he lost a bad fight with Life) and they keep a severed male torso in the fridge with hilarious consequences! Is it that one? I don’t watch much T.V. - but it’s okay, I don’t think anyone can tell.

    And Rush, yet! Rush! Evil such as this will stain the land from horizon to horizon if left unchecked! He must be purged! Purged with fire! “Weeeeeeee areeeeee The Prieeeeestssssss of theeeeee Templeeeeeee offffff….” Aieeeee!
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    I

    AM

    BY-TOR!!!!
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      CommentAuthorOK Comics
    • CommentTimeMar 4th 2010
     
    Get a room...
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    Padded?

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