4 hours ago · Writing · 0 comments

After finding a collection of Marvel Bullpen Bulletins for the search engine for magazines about comics, I started to wonder whether it’d be useful (or fun) to include text pages from comics in general. I mean — editorials, letters pages, “hype pages”… There’s information there that’s not available anywhere else. So… perhaps? Maybe? Peut-être? The first question is, of course: Can I lay my hands on a huge collection of scanned comics in the first place? And the answer is: Of course, the pirates are still pirating out there. So I hacked an old torrent client to be more handy for this project. Like, if the torrent seems to be dead (either not responding within a few minutes, or stalling for a long time), then just abandon it. I’m after quantity, not quality, after all. And after downloading, just hang up, like an animal. (Yes, I know, it’s very anti social towards the pirates, but I’m downloading things not to read, so er ok.) After a few weeks, I had 1.7TB worth of comics CBR/CBZ files…

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