No Need To Be Ashamed If You Do...

Do you still read comics? I damn well do. Most find it immature or juvenile, but it's a part of our culture since the early 1930's and has help to shape the imaginations of so many that love this genre of story telling. Not every story is about someone in a cape or outfit fighting crime.

About two years ago i looked at my collections and really didn't feel like thumbing through them which kinda wears down the paper its printed on and was curious enough to see of copies can be found online. Low and behold i found some through a website which uses eMule to help share with people who want to transfer their collection to a digital format and have them stored them on a hard drive on their computer. It has since then expanded to me using eMule, uTorrent and now StrongDC++. Now i have a computer backup collection far beyond 280GB's while my paper collection grows also.

For backup purposes I get most of my comics in .CBR/.CBZ format from the StrongDC++ P2P Client. If you're just getting into this type of thing and you are use to the DCP/Minutemen torrents from the torrent trackers; this is where they get the comics to create the torrents for 0-day releases (same day scans, torrents usually turn up from Wednesday through Saturday).

The Z-Cult website was the perfect place for torrent trackers, 0-day and direct link downloads for all scanned comics. The only thing is the big two (Marvel & DC Comics) help put a stop to that which cuts out a lot of main stream comic scans available to people who join their site looking for comics to download. But they do release a lot of independent comics not owned by the big two.

Something like this is for the computer/home networking literate people. You will need to configure your router or firewall to be able to connect to the below services through certain ports or you will not be able to download with the proper speeds or not at all.

Below are links to resources that helped me compile my collection and show me the over all growth that comicbook industry has made over the decades.

SUPPORT YOUR LOCAL COMICBOOK SHOP AND THE INDUSTRY
IF YOU LIKE IT BUY IT!

Resources:
CDisplay
(for reading the actual scanned comics)
http://www.geocities.com/davidayton/cdisplay.html

StrongDC
(you connect to "HUBS" which allow you to download directly from someone who is on the same hub)
http://strongdc.sourceforge.net/index.php?lang=eng

Guide for the comic hubs for StrongDC
(no need to register to view site posts)
http://sharethefiles.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=83097&highlight=strongdc

Emule
(ed2k links)
http://www.emule-project.net/home/perl/general.cgi?l=1

uTorrent
(torrent files)
http://www.utorrent.com/

Z-Cult Comic Forum
(direct downloads links & torrents) (need to register with site to access)
http://www.zcultfm.com/~comic/

Comic-Central.cc
(mostly ed2k links) (need to register with site to access)
http://forum.comic-central.cc/