fuck.

[thehefner]

scans_daily is suspended. First details are here, and now it looks that Peter David himself (a writer I absolutely love) might be responsible in some capacity.*

EDIT: PAD's responded, and it looks like he wasn't responsible (although he DID issue a report to Marvel), but he ain't shedding any tears.

Guys, I am seriously, seriously upset. I... I can't even get my thoughts in order here. There are many logical ways to look at all this, I know, but right now, the purely emotional response is all I've got. I never honestly thought I'd have an appropriate time to use this icon, but right now, this is it.

I just think about all the wonderful comics that I'd never have even HEARD of without scans_daily. About all the awesome people I've met and friended from there**. Including a girlfriend! A girl who was the best damn person I met all last year, who I wouldn't have met otherwise if she hadn't been taken with this intense Harvey Dent fanboy! Scans_Daily actually got me laid!

But most of all, when I think about all the goddamn hours I've put into scanning and cropping and writing and editing posts of my own, and to think they're all just gone... like tears in the rain...

It's... it's the only place I've had for years now where I could actually just let loose with my love of comics and Harvey in particular, knowing that there would always be at least a few people who would get it and share my passion.

I literally have nothing else like that, never have. Not the comic shop, no social circle IRL, certainly not comic conventions, and definitely not anywhere else on the internet. Message Boards, jesus god save us all, never again. Even with the occasional troll and handful of fools and jerks, scans_daily has been a godsend to me as a fan. A place that would *daily* remind me why I'm a fan.

PAD, or whoever's responsible: way to totally fucking ruin the euphoric giddy feeling I had from getting a good review.



*And, if I'm not mistaken, he's LYING, as no, the whole issue of X-FACTOR was NOT posted! The mods have been rather strict about their "half an issue or less" rule. Which may not be any more legally sound than if they HAD posted the whole issue, but let's get the fucking facts straight first.

**Roll call: who here do I know purely and solely because we met on scans_daily?

Comments

[skalja.livejournal.com]

*waves* Hey Hef! I believe we also met thanks to scans_daily. ;)

Man, this has been a drama and a half ... I wanted to tell you I really appreciated your voice of sanity on the PAD blog, which I am staying well away from because I think any opinions I state would be given more weight than they truly represent. But you were brilliant!

I can understand why you don't want to come over to IJ, but damn, I would love to have you join us. If you change your mind, hurry on over! And be sure to keep an eye out on schmevil's journal and mine for updates, because we're hoping to find a better permanent hope at a server that wants to have us - Dreamwidth, perhaps, or a non-lj clone entirely.

(Also, on an entirely different note, I never got a chance to tell you that your Project Rooftop entry rocked!)

[thehefner.livejournal.com]

I believe we did too! Aw.

Yeah, I merely offered a passionate but personal viewpoint, nothing that mattered in the realm of real life or Da Law, saying how great and thoughtful and civil (compared to virtually every other internet forum) s_d was. PAD was just like, "Well that's interesting, considering my experience there. Maybe I just found the bizarro scans_daily or something," things like that, dripping with sarcasm and snark. Things devolved from there, and I've stayed out of it, thankfully.

... well, shit, when you put it like that, I guess I will come over to the IJ side. (I'm *wanted*? Yay!) I can deal, particularly if it's just a midway point to bigger and better things.

And thank you! Wait, you mean our Joker and Harley? Or the Riddler and Zatanna one that didn't get picked?

[skalja.livejournal.com]

Well, I can understand his frustration/skepticism, honestly, but it does seem a bit hypocritical of him to play the martyr while his fans were ripping into the s_d folks who were very politely trying to explain their side of the story. Like I said on noscans_daily, also, I'm not impressed with him moaning about how he's being terrorized over the entire internet after we've made public statements denouncing any nasty e-mails that have been sent, and have told him directly that we don't blame him for what happened.

Honestly, I think a huge problem with the comics industry today is the behavior of its professionals, but we'll save that rant for another day!

And yes, you're totally wanted! Come on in, the water's warm! IJ has given us a temporary home, where the buffalo roam, and the deer and the bat-antelope play. S'good fun. And we have tags. Tags, I tell ya!

I mean both. But I liked your Joker and Harley, especially because I was also Harley. Solidarity, doncha know.

[thehefner.livejournal.com]

At this rate, unless he pulls something else, I'm pretty well exhausted on all things PAD. Although you wanna know something we just realized today, a friend and I? PAD wrote the novelization to BATMAN FOREVER and--have you read it?--it was actually totally tolerable. PAD made BATMAN FOREVER a decent story. What in the hell? And now I can never tolerate it again. Sigh.

Jesus, yes, that is definitely a rant that must wait, but must also be written. The industry is just riddled with bullshit like that, most of it going unspoken partially because everyone knows everybody else and you don't want to get blacklisted or something.

Very well. I shall brave the IJ. Oh, that said, on the "looking for a permanent home" front... have you considered looking into Canadian webservers, places out of the US? It was a suggestion by the same friend, who citied places like the Pirate Bay which operates out of Sweden or wherever and is thus exempt from being sued in the US. Not that I want scans_daily to *ever* become a real pirate site (the day that happens, we all lose), but I'm just thinking in terms of extra protection for us in the future. If it would even work at all.

Hell yeah, thankya! Harley solidarity! *pounds chest*

(sorry for the delay, am all s_d'ed out the wazoo)

[skalja.livejournal.com]

Dude, he was one of my favorite Spidey writers! He made Felicia all badass and stuff. I hadn't finished buying the Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man trades, and now I feel all weird looking at them in the bookstores...

And yeah. It's like a frat boy frenzy in there, you can really tell. I kind of want to start a secret society of comics professionals who act like adults, except practically by definition that would backfire, wouldn't it?

We hadn't thought of that, but I'll mention it to the S-mods. Man, I am so alphabetically forlorn. Although coincidentally I've been thinking about changing my handle, and it starts with an s - maybe that would just be confusing, though.

Re: (sorry for the delay, am all s_d'ed out the wazoo)

[thehefner.livejournal.com]

No, no worries, I totally understand you've had your hands more than full!

It's very disturbing how much of a boy's club mainstream comics are, and how no one illuminates these matters. Have you read Valerie D'Orazio's GOODBYE TO COMICS? You know that even she is holding back a lot of incriminating stories and details. Hopefully she does get it published someday, and hopefully it really illuminates the problems with the industry.