scans_daily: the community has been suspended for posting copyrighted material without the permission of copyright holders, which is against LiveJournal's ToS. Before you ask: 1) At this time we don't know who made the complaint. But guys, we don't want this to turn into a witch hunt.
2) No, we don't have backups, but we're looking into recovering our entries. ETA:
pandanoai made a backup early this month. You'll need this to view it. acroamatica has it mirrored here. 3)
skalja set up a backup comm on insanejournal some time ago. If you're in dire need of scans, go here for now. ETA: A while ago, sir_razorback set up a message board for the comm here. comics_scans is another scan comm on eljay. Their rules and culture are a bit different from ours. If you join, be sure to read the userinfo before posting. stubbleupdate has set up noscans_daily. Please join, so we can keep our community together.4) No, this will not be the end of us. Vive les scans!
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ETA: Guys, do me a favour and link to this post in your personal journals/blogs/whatever. I don't want people to get misinformation. I'm monitoring the comments and will be around to answer questions.
ETA: Update post here.
The mod team is looking at our options; check this space for updates.
2009-02-28 05:01 am (UTC)
i think anyone that posts here is a loyal fan that buys physical comics and more than just a person that religiously buys spiderman. sometimes i get pissed off at how negative and whiny it can be, but it's obvious that the people here are not casual readers of comics, to even find this community, you have to be into comics to a scary degree, and that necessitates buying.
to be frank, in order to keep up with the posts here, you have to really be up on your nerd game. i cannot freak out and argue with someone if i haven't read supergirl with the feverish eye of an OCD person hopped up on coke. just casually reading some scanned stuff will not cut it.
not to mention that certain companies don't have certain things traded like, young justice, most of the legion, anything that isn't from the last 5 years.... so in order to keep up with nightmares like, oh, FINAL CRISIS, where else would i go for an explanation of why superman just sang at me?
2009-02-28 05:07 am (UTC)
It can be negative and whiny like you said, but it also motivates people into expressing their reactions rather than just accept something. If the big 2 are so concerned about hearing from fans, they should have accept that this is one avenue from which there will be discourse.
I BOUGHT SO MUCH because of S_D, too.
2009-02-28 12:40 pm (UTC)
(This is
2009-02-28 08:24 am (UTC)
(GOD... S_D inspired at least well everything DC I own... which is now half my collection.)
2009-02-28 09:22 am (UTC)
where else would i go for an explanation of why superman just sang at me?
Lol I was confused when I read that and I think the only excused used for Superman doing that was "Darkseid hates music" which made me go "Huh?"
I think he used this song though
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lo9HjBpM
2009-02-28 09:39 am (UTC)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=no1BJy58
and he made the saxophone's part with his mouth by going "WAH-NA-NA-NA, WAH-NA-NA-NA".