Comic Book Fans: Do they use the Internet?

Cafe Society
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Obviously, all of us on the Dope do.

But what about the rest of them? I would assume that they’re likely to be Internet-oriented people.

As for us: what speed connection do you have?

I’ve got cable at home and a… well, I don’t know what I have at work, but it’s pretty dang fast.

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Comic book fans? On the internet?!?

Nah.

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Well, somebody is posting on the Weekly Comic Book Discussion threads in Cafe Society.

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Let’s see. Everyone knows that comic book fans are pathetic losers who can’t get a date. Yeah, I’d say that they’re prime candidates for using the 'net. Heck, they probably go around using pseudonyms like BruceWayne or PParker.

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Generally speaking, we comics fans fit a few minutes of internet time in between our baseball practice and our dating Colombian supermodels.

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Say, you!

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There are a ton and a half of comics sites on the web, so yeah, we’re pretty common on the 'Net.

–Cliffy

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Not only are there a ton and a half comics sites on the web, I’ll bet every major site has at least one article discussing the impact of the web on the industry, fandom, and/or the future of the form of the medium. [url-http://www.ninthart.com/display.php?article=999]Here’s a recent article at NinthArt discussing how representative Internet fandom is of comics buyers generally.

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:smack: The one time I don’t use preview…

Corrected link.

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Let’s not forget, oh, Usenet – that rec.arts.comics.* hierarchy has got to be good for something…

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Well played.

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So cool!