So
CoH.com is dead. and the ftp that goes with it is also dead. and the comics are thus no longer available at the links given.
Edit: and
archive.org does not have the comics archived!!!!
I did manage to find some of them (2004 Darkhorse, and 2005) but it might be a good idea to actually grab them and upload them to this site. Most of the comic viewer websites have been googled in googletml and don't work in non-googled NPAPI browsers. I mean yeah google is trying to take over the internet by rewriting all the pages in it's custom version of HTML so older browsers can't view it any more and all modern browsers need a license from google just to read the net.. thats gotta be monopolization of the internet and thus illegal. but whatever not my call to make, I'm just a paranoid techie. Having to view sites in Tor just to keep google spyware off my machine is kinda slow, I just want to read the comics. Started because I wanted to see how they drew the longbow (if they even featured them).
worst part most of the comic viewing sites actually host the images on a blogspot server... thats...gotta be against blogspot's policy, hence my concern that the images may be 404ed in eventuality.
Edit: [spoiler]all the online comic viewing websites link to images on the same blogspot page, I couldn't view them except in tor because I have an(EDIT: OUTGOING) IP range ban on google. why google feels they need to hide their presence and masquerade as a blogspot user to present free to view comics only furthers my paranoia. Just how many websites are actually owned and operated on google's servers? this is an internet takeover nightmare.[/spoiler]
We can at least list the PDFs as downloads from this server. What do you think?
heres the comics in question (hosted on google's servers, but referenced as a blogspot page in the URL, can't view if you block google's IP ranges OUTGOING.):
https://readfullcomic.com/category/city-of-heroes-2004/ - Darkhorse Comics version. Issues 0 through 12.
https://readfullcomic.com/category/city-of-heroes-2005/ - given it's 2005 I'll go out on a limb without reading and say this is the city of villains comic. Issues 1 through 20
https://readfullcomic.com/category/city-of-heroes-image-comics/ - Image Comics version, Issues 1 through 20
https://readfullcomic.com/category/city-of-heroes-blue-king-studios/ - Blue King Studios version, Issues 00 through 12
now to confirm they all work and none are broken. - they appear to be live and functional.
as noted in my edits:
[spoiler]my google ban is only on outgoing connections to google, not incoming connections from google. so it's really bad that in order to merely recieve bytes of an image I need to SEND information to google. I really should setup a python listenner and see what data is being sent. but I'm lazy.[/spoiler]
