#readcomiconline

It super sucks because that site wasn't just hosting the hottest, newest Marvel and DC stuff. It was hosting thousands of comics, a lot of which had been out of prints for years if not decades. You could find the most obscure things on that site, including European comics that are notoriously hard to get your hands on

You can say "Get them eBay!" Or "Try Vinted!" But then try and search for, I don't know, Mr and Mrs X. Can you find it? Do you have a home to remortgage?

What about that obscure Black Lightning Annual from 1993 where the warehouse burned down and resellers got their claws in early and there's only six remaining copies in the world?

DC doesn't even have a library for their writers and artists to access for their jobs. They have shot themselves in the foot so thoroughly that you almost have to laugh, by not only alienating their fanbase from the content they wish to consume but by cutting of their own staff's access to it and therefore severely limiting (if not decimating) their ability to pursue consistent characterisation or maintain canon (that's not to say they were doing either of those things when rco was still available but, you know. Before, I had the tiniest glimmer of hope).

i can’t deal with this, i can’t. it makes me so sad and genuinely anxious. people don’t sell comic books in my country and those who do sell them, they either have VERY EXTREMELY limited stuff like basically nonexistent and then those VERY few (probably just one) places (i think they import books on demand or something like that?? like you request it and they bring it idk) they are extremely expensive. even the compacts are expensive.