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Hi again

Another chance to open up a slightly broader discussion than usual, any comic related TV or movie projects you have enjoyed, been annoyed at, or want to recommend to others.

Is Justice League Action action packed or a damp squib?

Is the notion of a Flash/Supergirl crossover musical episode with Darren Criss playing the Music Meister something to be embraced, or avoided?

Is TV Iron Fist's Kun-Lun being a multi-ethnic extradimensional realm enough to get it away from the "White Saviour" trope?

Feel free to share your opinions here.

It has to be said that this is a golden time for comic book adaptations into other media. Aside from the long established trend of video games, we have more movies, live action and animated series than would have seemed even plausible a few years ago.

And the range is impressive; we have Justice League Action for the kids (and the young at heart), Riverdale for those wanting a darker teen soap/drama take on Archie, Legion for the arty crowd (jk), CW is seemingly fuelled by DC shows like Supergirl, Flash and Legends of Tomorrow, and Agents of SHIELD is still powering on. In the cinema we have everything from Snowpiercer to The LEGO Batman Movie!

It will never be a primary focus on scans_daily (the clue being in the name of course), and we do have the NS: multimedia tag, but it's not used overly much, so we thought it might be interesting to create a weekly post where you can discuss or dissect any shows you have enjoyed, are anticipating or want to recommend.

And don't feel limited to English language materials; Asterix movies, manga adaption, all are fair game. The more variety the better!

This will be a test run for four Sundays, if it proved popular we'll keep it going, if not we'll let it fade away.

Your input would be appreciated so, if you're interested in this as an idea, go for it!

Recent political events in the USA have caused a great deal of confusion and for some, outright fear.

The President Elect of the USA has gone on record with comments that are racist, sexist, Islamophobic, and generally playing on nebulous societal fears. The Vice President Elect has made homophobic and mysogynist comments.

What all of this augurs for the future is as yet uncertain, and we don't want to engage in scaremongering, but caution seems advisable for now.

In the meantime, the Mod Team wish it to be known that Scans_Daily has, and always will be, a haven from such things. We will challenge and call out examples of bigotry and hate, and will never endorse them.

However, in the meantime we feel we need something more than that right now, something constructive. Our community exists to celebrate and share comic scans and that’s what we’re going to do, in our own special way.

So we are launching a new Theme Week right here and now; “Inspiration point”.

We are looking to you for examples from comics of any format, of characters or moments that inspired you. That gave you hope, or comfort, or the will to go on during trying times.

Has Ms Marvel as an independent young Muslim woman given you confidence? Wonder Woman reminded you that women have a strong voice? The X-Men made you realise that being different is okay? Have Midnighter and Apollo kissing on panel made you happy? Or a shared moment of recognition when Blaze of the Misfits came out as trans to the group? A fanart that struck a chord?

You have scans of this sort of thing that have meaning for you? (and we appreciate the examples above barely scratch the surface) bring them on, if they worked for you, who knows who else they might help.

If you would also care to share WHY they inspire you that would be awesome too, though we're not asking you to share anything that would make you uncomfortable.

We support each other during such times. We are a community: We are women, men and the glorious spectrum in between and beyond. We are cis, trans, gay, straight, queer, asexual. We are from all over the world, young and old, with faith or without. We are your community and we are stronger because you choose to be here!

Stay safe, share scans, and as be excellent to each other!

The Scans_Daily Mod Team
Aeka
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Greetings all,

In light of some questions that have been put to us of late your tyrannical, yet adorable, Mod Team have been pondering a few things about the nature of reality and, more importantly, the nature of Scans_Daily.

Our primary focus is, and will always remain, the sharing of comic scans to promote the medium and to discuss them in an LGBTQ-friendly, anti-racist, anti-ableist, woman-friendly and otherwise discrimination and harassment free way, but we do feel that it’s time to reorganise things just a little.

Posting Rules

Our basic rules about posting, and civility, remain as they always were. They’ve served us well this long, we see no need to amend them.

No_Scans

The most important change is that, given that it has seen a decline in posting for a couple of years and nothing at all over the past five months, we will officially retire the NoScans_Daily comm effective immediately.

We created NoScans_Daily when we migrated from LiveJournal back in 2009, so we would keep a presence there, but we no longer feel that it is necessary to do so and, as a forum for discussion, LJ has been superceded by other social media sites.

However, we don't want to lose the concept completely, and rather than set up a separate NSD in Dreamwidth, we thought we’d rather try something new, and so we’re going to try expanding the limitations of Scans_Daily by incorporate a new category of post, “No_Scans”.

These will be used for posts relating to comic news and media rather than comics themselves. There will be no need for the dread “Legality scan” in such posts. Other relevant images and media, such as video links may be posted, but these must ALWAYS be under a cut, no preview images allowed. Please always try to use a cut for your No_Scans posts, so they do not take up too much space on the comm page.

All such posts must be clearly tagged so that other posters can easily find these posts when searching through the comm.

These new tags are;


All No_Scans posts MUST clearly indicate what the topic is about in the title;

NEWS – DC announces new titles based on potato chip flavours

INTERVIEW – Frank Miller discusses his upcoming My Little Pony miniseries

and so on.

Off Topic Tuesday

Another thing we'll be bringing back from the No Scans comm is "Off Topic Tuesdays", a Mod Post each week where members can discuss anything they want to get off their chest, though let it be known the rules of conduct will still apply.

Clarifications/Reminder

Just to update what an earlier version of the Rules didn’t make clear:

The “Four pages of a new issue” rule is cumulative, No more than four pages may be posted in total until a comic is no longer considered to be a new issue (Four weeks, or when the next issue is published), no matter how many posters are involved.

Scans which are posted from official previews, if they are posted on scans_daily, count towards the four page rule.

The 1/3 rule remains and, as before, applies to any individual story within an issue, not the comic as a whole

No links to sites relating to pirating or torrenting comics may be posted.

Tags

As many have commented, we’ve long since run out of room for new tags, which given we have 5000, is really saying something about the range of materials we’ve had posted!

We are looking to implement a housecleaning in the near future based on the following rule.

Any tag which has been used on three or fewer occasions in total, and which has not been updated in over a year or so, will be deleted.
Where a character is uniquely linked to a single group, the “group” tag supercedes the individual character.

We will welcome questions or concerns about these amendments and will answer them as best we can. Please bear in mind some may take a little longer to answer than others depending on level of Mod Team discussion required and time-zone differences.

Good Morning/Afternoon/Evening/Night (depending on timezone) all,



2nd May 2015 is Free Comic Book Day, a day when your Local Comic Shop will be stocking (hopefully) a wide range of comic books produced every major (and some not so major) publisher.

One of Scans_Daily's primary reasons for being is to promote comic books through our shared love of the medium and today is a great day for that

So if you feel you might want to pop down to your Local Comic Shop today, just on the offchance, do try. Many of the larger ones host events today, so you might want to check out those too.

We'd also encourage you to look through all the titles rather than just the big names. You may well find something new you've never tried before, and what better opportunity is there to do so than when it's free?

Oh, and if you happen to want to leaf through the selection of back issues, manga, GN's (or even action figures and the like if such be your tastes) and the like that your LCS might have in stock we'd also suggest that too, LCS are a rarer breed than they should be and we should all wish to see them prosper and grow into suitably enlightened places to visit and deal with.

FCBD issues are exempt from our usual 1/3 limit as they are classified as giveaways. If you do post them, we ask you to include a link to the publishers website, especially important if it's a smaller, lesser known company who deserves some attention.

Hi all

In light of Saturday being Valentines Day, and in the spirit of l'amour, your ever-lovin' Mods thought it might be nice celebrate this weekend of romance and passion with a weekend dedicated to those very topics.

By this we mean you posting your favourite scans of any characters, any situation, celebrating that crazy thing called love!

Of course, this being Scans_Daily, we have no interest in limiting such things to purely "boy meets girl" (though we have no objection to that of course). We want to see girl meets girl, boy meets boy, girl meets genderfluid person, queer boy meets alien being of indeterminate gender, girl meets android and android brings friend along.. in short, the whole spectrum of people and love and romance as it has (hopefully) been depicted in the comic book format!

Scenes of flirting, kissing and cuddling are also encouraged (That applies to ost of us in life as well as in the scans, but that's your business and none of ours) but of course platonic love is entirely acceptable for those who cherish such things above all others.

We see this as being a weekend event, so from now (ish) until Monday, go for it! (If you miss those deadlines, what the heck, post them anyway).

Other posts are, of course, acceptable too, we're not being exclusionary here!

Have fun, mes chere amis!