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A Money Crunch Is Killing My Pull-List!

Aug 18, 2009 03:36

Greetings True Believers! Curses! I'm being forced to cut my pull-list down the bare bones to save money. Rent, bills, food and smokes are consuming my resources and I'm trying like hell to get more work ( Read more... )

comics rant

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gargoylekitty August 18 2009, 09:48:30 UTC

While Wednesday Comics is $3.99, I'm pretty sure the other DC titles I get are still $2.99. I try not to focus too much on what's going on with the cover price since doing that almost drives me insane with everything else I buy. Though, given how comics are going lately, I sometimes feel that the companies are just trying to help out in making me not want to buy a lot of things. I'm down from my old $20+ to rarely hitting $10 a week(often only getting one or two titles).

madripoor_rose August 18 2009, 11:46:15 UTC

Definitely. I only buy in trade paperbacks, and I'm buying much less of those. Thank god for the public library.

red_cyclone August 19 2009, 10:03:34 UTC

Motto. At least one of my local libraries trade selcetion is really, really good.
It's so lame, all I buy is Secret Six because I just can't not, though I did buy Detective Comics in a moment of weakness (cancelled out by getting a JSA poster for less than half price?) but I don't even buy many trades anymore, the reality of living on what I can earn rather than on a student loan is pretty rubbish.

captain_clown August 18 2009, 11:52:31 UTC

It's so bad at the min, since I'm going away I've got to try save for a load of subscriptions because I hate gaps.

And my list seems to be getting bigger and bigger D:

I had a heart attack yesterday when I went to buy Blackest Night, could only see the variants which were £7.99. Nice variants and all but £7.99?! And the two Ce's that I get had the price upped :(

*sigh*

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captain_clown August 19 2009, 16:13:58 UTC

I just couldn't justify buying it for that amount, because by the time the next one comes out it goes down to £1. So I would be kicking myself :D

But god, Zombie Aquaman kicks ass.

fleur_de_liz August 18 2009, 14:48:03 UTC

Most of DC's books are $2.99 still. The $3.99 books are the ones with co-features in them, such as Booster Gold/Blue Beetle and Adventure Comics, which is Superboy/Legion of Superheroes. The Blackest Night mini is $3.99, and some of the 3-issue tie-ins have been as well.

I definitely feel the pinch. I lost my job in May and have no income currently. I really shouldn't even be buying comics, but they're kind of my sanctuary from all the fail going on in my life right now.

stubbleupdate August 18 2009, 16:30:33 UTC

I'm not feeling the crunch money wise, but I just bought two shortboxes and I've filled them already. A lot of stuff in there is stuff that I wouldn't really choose to read again, so I'm thinking about what should get cut from my list. There's a few titles that don't really excite me any more, so they're probably due some binnage.