I must chime in and say that anyone who actually wants to support the comic industry downloading bootlegs is an insult, when dark horse reprinted all the comics as archive editions in Trade paperback.
They did the entire regular run except for return of the jedi 1-4
The ewok and droids are not belonging to the same continuity so why would they include those?
They took incredible care that the digital coloring was done as to match the originals. I know i have compared some of my comics to the redoes and they are very close.
The Al Williamson stuff was my favorite. So i was a little pissed when they did not recreate the coloring of the original return of the jedi 1-4 and include it. They did reprint it sometime in the nineties but they had Pamela Rambow recolor it with garish modern colors.
Not all but some of those pizazz and amazing heroes stuff, and the uk stuff is being reprinted in the Luke Skywalker omnibus. I think way of the wookiee and the day after the death star. Not sure about world of fire i know that was released by marvel books in paperback.
I bought the devilworlds stuff back in the day and was not that impressed with it.
Then their was that one russ manning that was ghosted by someone else in the L.A. times that was never reprinted.
The original color sundays from the Williamson and goodwin newpaper strips have also never been published. Classic star wars was a complete recoloring and the russ cochrane 3 volume set is only in black and white.
If you want to download the way the comics originally looked i say go for it. for preservation sake.
I would also own the dark horse volumes, then i would have no qualms over downloading the stuff.
Although either way it is considered illegal. Though none of those dcp guys on demonoid have ever been prosecuted as of yet.
The only cases i have heard of have been in japan and they were over the illegal electronic distribution of manga.
Oh and that star trek dvd comic thing is actually licensed it is not a bootleg.
It just does not include the new content published by IDW comics.
Which Includes Stellar Stuff like Year 4, and the digital remastered gold keys.
They have the old gold keys in the trek collection.