So, I'm currently on lunch at my day job and I've decided to try and find some new comic series to pick up (because, apparently, the giant pile by the side of my bed just isn't enough).
Now, I've found three which have caught my eye in the next few months. The first two are Superman related titles, with Tom Taylor and Clayton Henry releasing Adventures of Superman: Jon Kent followed a week later by Christopher Priest and Carlo Pagulayan's Superman: Lost, while the third is another Star Trek comic, in the form of Christopher Cantwell's Star Trek: Defiant. All three are incredibly tempting and it's a sad state of affairs that I can really only afford one of them.
(I've also found what appears to be a one-shot in the form of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine - The Dog of War, but given that is released after the other three, I suspest this will be missed).
I'm unsure what kind of series Defiant is (an ongoing or a limited series), but both Superman series are of a limited nature (Jon Kent is 6 issues and Lost is 10) and, as a result I thought I'd investigate the possibility of picking one of those two up as a digital purchase (because it would save space in the long run).
Now, I haven't used comixology in a long while (from a purchasing point of view) because the set up is difficult to deal with and navigate as well as, quite frankly, Amazon get enough of my money and I'm still a little bitter about their gutting of this once great site.
Nonetheless, it is still the only place to buy digital comics and so I thought I'd take a look.
Sadly, none of these titles did not appear (because Amazon don't work in pre-ordering comics, apparently).
However, this isn't the thing which irked me the most. What irked me the most was, while I was there, I decided to at least check prices by comparing other comics of similar price ranges.
What I found was that a comic which is normally $3.99 (or £3.99 at my LCS) is £3.19 on Amazon, while a $4.99/£4.99 comic is now £3.99.
Maybe I'm crazy but this feels a little steep for a digital comic.
Now, it's been a while, but would guess that I previously would've accepted this price because it was a £0.80/£1 saving and, every penny helps (especially during current circumstances). However, with age has come something else, and it isn't in favour of only making an 80p/£1 saving. With the major upheavel that comes with buying off of Comixology nowadays, coupled with the fact that I've recently returned to a sense that physical reading is better/more enjoyable, I actually think that the saving needs to be greater, especailly as digital is still not 'owned' by me and could disappear at a moment's notice.
So, basically, this long ramble has brought to the conclusion that getting any new series through comixology just isn't worth the cost and trouble and that (if I can afford it), I'll be picking up one of those new series I mentioned from my LCS (who honestly deserve my coin more than Amazon).
... And when I say one of those new series, I really mean it'll be the one written by Tom Taylor and containing a guest appearance of the awesome Superman he created.
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