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Originally Posted by Joonbug1
Scott McCloud predicted comic books would suffer from digital piracy and the internet, and funny enough, Alan Moore called him "full of bullocks" for his prediction back in the nineties... Guess the comics legend Mr. Moore was actually wrong about this one.
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Depends on what you mean by "suffer." Comics are able to be exposed much more deeply to a much wider audience than they ever could be when available only in paper version-- anyone so inclined can read the most expensive back issues of virtually any comic that a decade ago would have been accessible only to the very wealthy. Want a copy of the first appearance of Superman? No problem. Spiderman? Easy. Want to read the first 200 issues of the X-Men? You don't have to spend thousands of dollars and who knows how much time tracking down 40-year old stacks of pulp paper-- you need only know how to google the term "revised chronological x-men."
Piracy has done more to help comics than they have ever have before-- the deep OOP back catalog has been rescued from obscurity.