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Jun. 10th, 2006 08:36 pmIt's Employee Appreciation weekend, and my bookstore discount is temporarily 40%, up from the usual 30%. Yesterday, I bought eleven volumes of manga, including the $17 Kinderbook, for a grand total of $69, less the money I got back for dumping that shitty translation of Land of Silver Rain back on the store, ha ha, take that, Net Comics. Tramps 9 and Please Save My Earth 7-10 eeeee! etc.
It's awesome to get around $120 dollars of books for a very affordable $60, or so, especially since with the roomie moving out and no immediate idea who I'm going to get to replace her, it behooves me to watch my money carefully.
So I went back and did it again today. For the win.
Scott McCloud's Understanding Comics (I've always meant to read it. I asked cranky comic book geezer Bill if I got kudos for that, and he went into a five minute rant about McCloud putting down Jim Lee, the essence of which was, no. But the cranky is why Bill is love, and I feel the exact same way about that hack, Ron Goulart), and because McCloud talks about Osamu Tezuka, but I have never actually read any Tezuka, I bought the only Tezuka we had in the store, which was the first volume of Buddha. And Legion: Death of a Dream because even though Mark Waid is really letting me down with this thing, I am a Legion of Superheroes whore, and political agitator Brainiac 5 remains entertaining and hot. (But...still...the buzzcut. Why, Waid? Why?) I also bought Dramacon because the more OEL stuff hits our shelves, the more I realize how hit or miss it is, and Dramacon looks a lot more like a hit than a miss. It is cute, and I think cute is what it wants to be.
I also was totally going to buy D. Gray-Man, being that it's one of the It mangas, and large discounts make me adventurous, but then I ran into this really cute little FMA/Naruto/Rurouni Kenshin fanboy who was disappointed that we were out of Full Metal Alchemist vol. 7, so I gave him the D. Gray-Man and told him it was super-popular with FMA fans, and he got all excited. Alas, it was the only one left in the store. I imagine we'll get it back in, just as we'll eventually get back in FMA vol. 7 and Rurouni Kenshin vol. 1, but it will no longer be Employee Appreciation weekend when that happens. D:
Annnnnyway. So far, I've bought and read volumes 1-4 of Blade of the Immortal. It is awesome, and gripping, and there is no question in my mind that I will continue to buy and read the series, albeit slowly, because it's pretty pricey. My question to you all is, should I take advantage of the last day of Employee Appreciation weekend, and buy Blade of the Immortal vols. 10-12 and 14-15--those being the only volumes currently in the store--on the grounds that while I won't be able to read them for months, I'll save a shitload of money by buying them now? Considering that I will buy them sooner or later, and also considering that I've dropped about $120 in two days on books, and that I'm poor.
It's awesome to get around $120 dollars of books for a very affordable $60, or so, especially since with the roomie moving out and no immediate idea who I'm going to get to replace her, it behooves me to watch my money carefully.
So I went back and did it again today. For the win.
Scott McCloud's Understanding Comics (I've always meant to read it. I asked cranky comic book geezer Bill if I got kudos for that, and he went into a five minute rant about McCloud putting down Jim Lee, the essence of which was, no. But the cranky is why Bill is love, and I feel the exact same way about that hack, Ron Goulart), and because McCloud talks about Osamu Tezuka, but I have never actually read any Tezuka, I bought the only Tezuka we had in the store, which was the first volume of Buddha. And Legion: Death of a Dream because even though Mark Waid is really letting me down with this thing, I am a Legion of Superheroes whore, and political agitator Brainiac 5 remains entertaining and hot. (But...still...the buzzcut. Why, Waid? Why?) I also bought Dramacon because the more OEL stuff hits our shelves, the more I realize how hit or miss it is, and Dramacon looks a lot more like a hit than a miss. It is cute, and I think cute is what it wants to be.
I also was totally going to buy D. Gray-Man, being that it's one of the It mangas, and large discounts make me adventurous, but then I ran into this really cute little FMA/Naruto/Rurouni Kenshin fanboy who was disappointed that we were out of Full Metal Alchemist vol. 7, so I gave him the D. Gray-Man and told him it was super-popular with FMA fans, and he got all excited. Alas, it was the only one left in the store. I imagine we'll get it back in, just as we'll eventually get back in FMA vol. 7 and Rurouni Kenshin vol. 1, but it will no longer be Employee Appreciation weekend when that happens. D:
Annnnnyway. So far, I've bought and read volumes 1-4 of Blade of the Immortal. It is awesome, and gripping, and there is no question in my mind that I will continue to buy and read the series, albeit slowly, because it's pretty pricey. My question to you all is, should I take advantage of the last day of Employee Appreciation weekend, and buy Blade of the Immortal vols. 10-12 and 14-15--those being the only volumes currently in the store--on the grounds that while I won't be able to read them for months, I'll save a shitload of money by buying them now? Considering that I will buy them sooner or later, and also considering that I've dropped about $120 in two days on books, and that I'm poor.
