On Digital Comics: A Follow-Up

Newsarama picked up my recent post on digital comics and I had three times the traffic I usually get. But I guess I used too many words in the post because according to my statistics most of the visitors spent less than 5 seconds here. My post was briefly mentioned on a few message boards (so somebody must have actually read it). One person thought I was too biased (toward creators I guess) but he missed my point. If I favor comic book creators it's because they're making something and deserve respect and the scanners and torrent freeloaders are essentially robbing them. One poster (on the Newsarama message board I think) actually thought that Jack Kirby would be on the side of the the scanners and torrent freeloaders. Anyone who knows anything about Jack Kirby knows he took feeding his family very seriously. It's one reason (perhaps the main reason) he worked so hard. You can't feed your family if you're not getting paid (this is so elemental, how can some people not get that?). It's true that there are those who just don't think about it and consider that what they're doing is hurtful to someone else. Hopefully, they will learn some day. What I find disheartening is the number of folks who understand that what they're doing unfairly benefits themselves and not the creators who've earned it and they willfully continue to take and take and take anyway. They suck.

Okay, sorry about these last two buzz-kill posts. There is an upside to digital comics and I do want to talk about that as well. I will try again to get to it next time.