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Considering that back issues can still be found and are relatively inexpensive, considering that you know that Grant is still fighting/hoping to get the book collected for reprint, and considering that you seem to like it so much that you're dying to get your hands on a copy, don't you think it's a bit crass and shortsighted to go out and pay someone for a set of pirated scans? Why not either expend the effort to find existing copies or hold off so that the man who created the book can actually try and get paid for your appreciation?
...sorry for not explaining the context of all this. I live in Argentina (the CD only is sold inside this country), where most stuff older than three years is IMPOSSIBLE to find. We still get the new stuff (although a month late), but the system works in a different way; you go to the comic book store, you flip over the previews, you write down in a notebook what you want, they make the order, and three months later you got it. Only *sometimes* they ask for extra copies of anything for display and sell in the moment (if it's something really ineresting). The only reason this places keep on existing over here is because of national editions of Mangas; and playing card games.
Stuff being distributed online non-profit is one thing, but when someone is selling this stuff, any grey issues disappear - The only people that should be MAKING any money on this are the copyright holders/creators.
I can't imagine Grant being very pleased that his stuff is being sold in this way.
They didn't make any profit (in fact, they lost money), i got in contact with the people that made it, and, if they are telling the truth, all the money was for the CD and cover print. They did it because they honestly thought people should get the chance to read it, and that if they anytime made money with it, it would go to Grant, Frank, and all the people involved.
I think you can often order the individual issues on eBay...
Yes I could, but with the economic crisis over here makes the peso's worth one fourth of that of the dollar (it used to be 1 peso = 1 dollar), plus shipping and handling, makes comic books really expensive. Is like, for example, you paid 10 dollars for your regular 22-page comic, 80 to 100 for the TPBs, and 110 to 160 for the hardcovers. That would make the four issues of Flex Mentallo (priced about 25 dollars in eBay) about 350 or 400. Yet, I'm saving money so I can buy them. And still buying the comic books and the TPBs, and when I can, the Hardcovers. I had to get work as a web page designer while still in school only so I could buy a few comics in the month.
In short, the comic book comunity should make a fucking giant statue of me covered in gold.
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