2000 AD Online Forum

thanks many there!! jolly good of you.

i'll do the summer special pages and add them tonight for you to enjoy...

carnivore is now supplying me with a complete run of tornado...the chap's a damn good egg.

and about time too

on to the faves browser with that one.
looks like a site to take some time on.
good to see he finally got around to this.

i'm just adding a .rar archive of all 22 issues for download. meanwhile there's some mccarthy strontium dog and even more timequake up as soon as my server hosts fix the 403 permissions error.

then it's time for mind wars...

the action site has got all the 'missing' strips going online today. unseen episodes of death game 1999, hook jaw, kids rule o.k., lefty and hell's highway.

then i'm doing all of johnny red, major eazy, el mestizo and some other stuff at www.falconsquadron.co.uk - it's a johnny red site, but i'll put some 'best of battle' stuff on there without hopefully treading on marble's toes.

what do you reckon...should i do some tornado too?

>the 78 special story is set in a n orbiting casino and is essentially in black and white, but is sort of greywashed for shading...not the one above

If you see some of Carlos' Starlord artwork its black, white & green. When printed in B&W the green comes out as a shade of grey.

La Placa Rifa,
W. R. Logan.

yeah, i just scanned a timequake story that was black, white and yellow....eeeuuch.

anyway it's b & w now, much nicer.

As good as it must be for people who've not these stories to get a chance to see them isnt it also infringing upon copyright of the publisher, writer and artist to put complete stories/issues online?

La Placa Rifa,
W. R. Logan.

probably, but that's been debated here at length before. most of this stuff is out of print, and not likely to be printed again, probably ever. wouldn't the same be true for flogging on old issues at vastly inflated prices?

my original plan was to just put up a few pages, but seeing as the whole lot was already scanned and freely available anyway if you know where to look (which i didn't), it seemed too good to miss.

if starlord strips become available to purchase again, then no doubt i'd remove the lot from the net, because i wouldn't like to deprive anyone of an income, unlike the original publishers, who gave the writers and artists more than enough to complain about when they were screwed over for the royalties, having been forced to sign away the intellectual copyrights on their work before it was ever published, the normal practice for british comics in the 70s. not sure if this would happen yet again on any book deal, some people, like pat mills, managed to regain their rights on early work.

arguing the case further, would you buy a complete run of starlord in a book form to have and to hold, or make do with a load of slightly fuzzy scans? some would, some wouldn't. some people would like to see the stuff first, like try before you buy.

i could debate the issue for ages, and i feel for both sides of the argument. if anybody wanted the stuff removed, i'd remove it. on the other side of the coin, i've never read tornado before, and now i can, without paying 50 or 60 quid to someone on ebay for the privilege. tornado's writes and artists don't see any of that money...

now, i've been sat watching six feet under and curb your enthusiasm and thinking about things and searching my conscience.

what do people think about scanning and online availability?

bolt has put the metro dredds up...there's plenty of other comic sites around...misty is all available online, as is scream...

thorny issue, again...

i'm going to bed feeling guilty now...

maybe i'll just take them down again...maybe not.

probably will though...probably

now i've had another idea.

what about if people could only access online strips after they donated a fee of say, ?1 to a comics related charity?

it would be easy to set up via something like paypal. you'd only be directed to the downloads page after you'd donated, and then you could bookmark it for future use.

of course then there'd have to be a password thing or people would just post links direct to the download page, but i'd sleep easier and that'd be their consciences plaguing them rather than me and mine...

i'll look into it...what do people think?

naaah, probably never work would it?

I know Rebellion have a policy of sending cease and desist notices to sites that host complete 2000AD strips.

La Placa Rifa,
W. R. Logan.

yeah, but timequake has survived online at the same site where rebellion have insisted that the cursed earth was removed...

i'll play it by ear...