Bang for your Bbbb-ucK!

For those that don't know, I'm moving next month from sunny, cool Vancouver back to boring ole' P.E.I. This poses a problem for my comic buying habit as there are only two shops back home and one of them I don't buy stuff from due to friendship loyalties and the other, while run by a cool guy and friend, isn't the most organized. Fortunately, Elfsar does mail orders. Thus I will receive my comics by mail once a month and "New Comic Day" will change to "New Comic Month" beginning in September.

As well, I've been thinking about the cost of comics lately and realized they're bloody expensive. I could change my habits extensively and instead of getting single issues, I could switch to trade paperbacks (collections of ~ 6 of those single issues). This is usually the cheaper option. I've decided that I'll meet somewhere in the middle because there's a measure of pride in knowing you have 100 straight issues of Ultimate Spider-man or 50 issues of Invincible. So I'm going to continue getting singles from Elfsar for most titles, but any graphic novel that tickles my fancy will likely be ordered from Amazon because it is even cheaper than the 20% discount I get from Elfsar.

That's my mentality right now, but who knows, maybe next year I'll sell off all my singles and rebuy the stuff in trade form.