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Weekends have always been a time for theBBPS get out it’s non-gaming-geeky-goodness, so without further adieu I present to you our latest weekly/weekend feature Sunday Funnies, in which we explore all the news that’s fit to print from the 4 color world of comics.

When you think of piracy, chances are your mind probably wanders towards music or movies or video games (or, in my case, gold and spices and ninjas). Chances are comic books wouldn’t exactly be on the tip of your tongue. But for an ever-growing number of eye-patch sporting, peg-leg wearing comic book fans, the underground scanning and sharing of comics online has replaced a weekly trip to the comics shop, and the industry couldn’t be any worse for wear.

While I don’t want to turn this into a discussion on the virtues of online comics sharing, I will say that I honestly believe it has its place. For every trade and reprint available of a classic comic, there are a thousand titles that have been neglected by today’s comics industry. Sure, through TPB’s and classic editions I can go back and read the earliest stories of Spiderman and the Fantastic Four — but what about Atari Force, or Solar: Man of the Atom? We can all agree that the scanning of comics that are readily available for purchase in one way or another is just as questionable as sharing movies and music that can be picked up at HMV, but when it comes to the literally hundreds of thousands of comics that have been printed over the years, I can’t help but feel there’s a real value in protecting what would otherwise have been lost to time.

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