fully digitized, hi-res versions of old comics are nice but fan scans — especially if the comic was published before the turn of the century — have a certain charm that the former is never going to be able to mimic. sure, the objective quality is higher, but digital restorations tend to do away with other things: the halftones used for shading, the colouring style, the texture of the newsprint paper used, the personality. those scans are the closest thing to holding a copy of those old, near-impossible to find/afford floppies in your hands. let's not even get started on the removal of letters to the editor by "official" digital copies.