Linguica Posted May 19, 2016 So the Doom comic book scans that we've had on the site for 13 years are, to the best of my knowledge, the only extant digital version online anywhere. They are also some low resolution trash garbage. One thing I would love to do would be to silently update them with better, higher-resolution scans, but such scans have to exist first. Which is why I'm asking if anyone here actually owns the comic book and could maybe help out with this request? Thanks. 0 Share this post Link to post
Fuzzball Posted May 19, 2016 http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/DOOM-1-ID-SOFTWARE-GAME-OUT-NOW-NM-CONDITION-1996-RARE-1st-PRINT-/231950118493?hash=item36014dee5d:g:uPMAAOSw9k5XPg5J Welcome to give it a go! 0 Share this post Link to post
Devalaous Posted May 20, 2016 I was just thinking the other day "Man, that comic scan is super low res, surely they can do better by now?" 0 Share this post Link to post
GreyGhost Posted May 20, 2016 kuchitsu said:I think GreyGhost has it. Yep, both versions. The convention giveaway comic was printed on better quality paper, and I may already have a set of scans from it. What resolution would be preferred? 0 Share this post Link to post
Tompig Posted May 20, 2016 I own the convention giveaway comic :) It's my prize collectible. 0 Share this post Link to post
Voros Posted May 20, 2016 GreyGhost said:Yep, both versions. The convention giveaway comic was printed on better quality paper, and I may already have a set of scans from it. What resolution would be preferred? As much as hi-res as possible legally. 0 Share this post Link to post
IMX Posted May 20, 2016 If we were to get hi-res scans of certain items, how about a hi-res scan of the classic Doom box art? This is the biggest resolution I could find of it 0 Share this post Link to post
lazygecko Posted May 20, 2016 Has anyone ever tried getting in touch with the authors of the comics? It would be interesting to hear their thoughts on it. Especially now that rip and tear is pretty much the official catchphrase of the franchise. Writer Steve Behling was active in Marvel at the time and seems to be with Disney now. 0 Share this post Link to post
Linguica Posted May 20, 2016 Voros said:As much as hi-res as possible legally. That's irrelevant since it's still copyright infringement at any resolution (except maybe as thumbnails, which have been found in a court case to be fair use, but whatever). Any size, so long as it's better quality than the current ones, would be fine, but obviously higher-res is better. 0 Share this post Link to post
Linguica Posted May 22, 2016 cybdmn sent me scans of his personal copy, which I resized and replaced the old shit ones on http://www.doomworld.com/10years/doomcomic/comic.php et al. His is the anthology version though, and GreyGhost said he will look into getting me scans of his copy of the original, higher-quality print. 0 Share this post Link to post
HorrorMovieRei Posted May 22, 2016 Holy shit, Doom guy's pupils are actually red during the infamous Rip'n Tear panel. I never noticed that in the lower res scans. As if he didn't look deranged enough already. 0 Share this post Link to post