Hi Plas,
DC++ is a peer-to-peer file sharing service much like Napster used to be. There are some private comics hubs out there that can be joined.
To learn more about DC++ and one hub run by a DCM member go to this link:
http://digitalcomicmuseum.com/forum/index.php/topic,3815.msg38986.html#msg38986You have to search for a book you know you want or download someone's Share File and sift though it to see if something is there missing on DCM. It's a tough job but DarkMark is very good at it. The most annoying thing about DC++ is finding files that have the wrong number and you think you are downloading one book you want when it's really a different issue. The same errors will crop up over and over. Eventually you learn to spot the most common ones but it's hard not to to get frustrated if a download took hours only to find it wasn't what it said it was. It doesn't happen ALL the time but enough to annoy me.
A good source lately but usually only for individual stories are
COMICS BLOGS. There are several Very Good Blogs out there like our own Tilliban's
empire of horror blogs, DCM supporter Ken Quattro's insightful
Comics Detective blog, one of the best horror blogs
The Horrors Of It All, DCM member Paul Tumey's excellent
Cole's Comics,
Mr.DoorTree's Golden Age Stores,
Pappy's Golden Age Comics, Thom Buchanan's amazing Walt Kelly blog -
Whirled of Kelly, and many many more. Check the links section for some others.
As an aside two other blogs that I truly love but not really focused on comics are
'Letters of Note' and the endlessly fascinating to waste hours and hours on
'if charlie parker was a gunslinger, there'd be a whole lot of dead copycats' blog. Well worth a look but not always safe for work.
Another less popular source is
USENET. But unless you are willing to pay for usenet access this isn't going to work for you. I'm paying $15 a month for access. The learning curve can be steep and you would have to install a newsreader app like NewsbinPro to effectively use it. If you want to continue down this road here is an old but still informative tutorial on how Usenet works -
http://www.slyck.com/ng.php?page=1Finally there is a smattering of scans that can come from old
Yahoo groups and I would imagine a whole subculture that inhabits
Tumblr, Twitter and Facebook but I don't know anything about those social networks. We do have a DCM Facebook page that Rangerhouse gracefully handles on top of all the other amazing work he's doing for DCM and the hobby.
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Digital-Comic-Museum/106808696057089?v=wallI hope that helps,
-Yoc