Return Of Bloom County. Sorta

Slartibartfast writes "According to mycomicspage.com, the entirety of Bloom County will be re-published on their site, starting St. Paddy's day, and at a "highly accelerated" rate of one week every two days, until the entire strip is up. In addition -- an extra-special bonus for us Berke Breathed fans -- his college predecessor, Academic Waltz, will also be run. One caveat: it's subscription-based. However, for $10, I'd call it a huge bargain. I'm signing up."

Comments

You give him too much credit

[MondoMor]

Let's run some articles about compelling web content for sale. After people are used to buying the good stuff, maybe they'll subscribe to /."

CmdrTaco once said,
"Golly, it sure is a lot of effort picking out the stories to submit. Now that the subscribers pay me for the priveledge of spell-, dupe- and fact-checking the stories we "editors" put up, I'm free to engage in a surly wank-a-thon with michael and timothy!"

Michael replied, "but rob dear, will I still get to act like a complete ass and suggest conspiracy theories where none exist?"

"yes! and we must be able to inject every possible drop of our irrational biases into the submitted stories," interjected timothy.

Hemos, tied up and bleeding on the couch, grunted and suggested that nothing would change. In fact, Slashdot would become even MORE partial, biased and ignorant. Plus, a new "plum" was coming out so that the Slashbots could eat and regurgitate even MORE anti-MS FUD!

They all laughed an evil laugh and opened another bucket of KFC. Except michael, who for some reason just sulked.

Re:Great!

[terraformer]

It's an issue of value. Those who "steal" music (and that is debatable as to how many are outright thiefs and how many are out to "try-before-they-buy" the music) clearly believe that $18 a CD, which contains songs the listener is not interested in, is too high a price to pay. In the absence of any alternatives, theft is the only other option. Put true competition (of choice, price and flexibility) into the market and then those on Kazaa et al; can be called thieves.

For those paying for the comics, $10 is a fair price given that there are alternatives such as print, etc and this is simply another option. This may have problems in the long run because, for most, this is a lease agreement and not a purchase agreement the way a printed book is. Yes, you can save the images to disk but praticality for most users will rule the day.