![]() These men and women (but really– come on– men) completely fascinate me. People are birthing these files, every single week. There cannot be downloading without uploading. We have talked many, many times about “piracy” or “sharing” or whatever you’d like to call it, but this is the part we never linger on. Are there rivalries? Do they have snappy West Side Story song-fights? May I pretend that they do, and write lyrics for them? If I understand correctly, scanners form scanner gangs. I think online communities even form around these activities. Another Wednesday is always just over the horizon. They do all of this for/to people they have never met in their lives. As far as I can tell after a highly unscientific survey of the web, they do it all in one night, like Santa. They send all of this effort into the ether for no pay whatsoever. Sometimes, they do versions with and without the ads in case, I don’t know, someone doesn’t want to pay for the comic but feels compelled to support the sponsors. (I can tell because when I try to scan panels, my first few attempts look like newspapers from the forties that got left in a flooded basement.) When there are double-page spreads, they edit the images so that you could never tell there was once a fold or a staple. They tweak and massage the pages to optimize how they look on the screen. ![]() So you can only imagine how ill-equipped I am to wrap my skull around the knowledge that there are people in this world who buy dozens of comics, bring them home, and scan every single page of every single comic every single week. I’ve done forty-five-minute Google Image searches for pictures that were sitting on my coffee table, rather than wrangle with that infernal contraption. ![]() I need to put this hilarious Ultimate Spider-Man panel in the Best of the Week… uggghhhgod, the scanner and the settings and the cropping and shlepping all the way upstairs and what’s on TV and where are the Fritos and zzzZZZzzz.” “Ha! Sara Pichelli apparently thinks every day is New Year’s Eve in New York City. Just another lazy Saturday in the neighborhood and/or stampede. ![]()
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