Apparently there was a snafu with Diamond and shipping this week in the US, with the holiday and all. I’m not sure actual details, but with Carol and John’s doing New Comic Day on Thursday, I decided I’d stop by real quick, see if they had one issue I was after. And maybe I’d find a second issue for the heckuvit.
I was gonna be in-and-out real quick, buying maybe 2 comics, if that.
They’d put out several longboxes of 25-cent comics. After half-heartedly flipping through one, I decided to take on the next, and then a couple more. I had a decent stack going.
Then another longbox was brought out. So, sure, I’ll look through that. Then another.
Bought my stuff, they gave me a box to cart them out in…and here’s another longbox, with the promise of yet a couple more.
Ultimately, I bought 148 comics…only 1 of them "current."
And on getting home Thursday night, I had a package waiting for me: my latest InStockTrades order.
While I’m waffling on how I feel about the "deluxe hardcover" treatment for Action Comics (as opposed to a "thick" paperback), it’s still a cool volume. And as far as I know, these are the only two Flash by Mark Waid volumes out thus far, and two excellent additions to my Flash shelf.
Finding time to read ’em all, though…that’s gonna be another thing entirely!
With the extra purchasing this week and last, though…I totally blew whatever might have become a "convention" budget or a "sale" budget, so I plan to attend to the recent purchases–and hopefully some solid reading–and am foregoing a convention that would be little fun anyway going alone, and a sale that…well, I’d surely spend way too much at (given half a chance) and other expenses that’d be involved.
C’est la vie and all that. Another week closing out…and we have the new Spider-Man film!
The ONLY trailer(s) I have seen for it thus far were theatrical–and really, I think it’s only one, and was before Wonder Woman or Guardians vol 2. I know OF some stuff, from casting to images forced in front of me…but by and large, I’ve managed to avoid stuff, and intend to continue to do so, even if it means trying to "stay offline" for the day or such.
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