Just been too busy..
Filed under: Commentary, On a personal note.., Random Thoughts and Information
to post that much here. Work, the book (which is on hold yet AGAIN), and life in general has kept me busy for a while now.
Add to all that, I have had my final comic shop crisis, as the only comic shop in town closed a few months back. It didn’t really surprise me, but I was just getting used to going every week again. So I am back to getting comics through the mail again (since the closest shop is almost two hours away), and I am using midtowncomics.com right now after using mycomicshop.com for a month. By the time I get stuff all the rest of the blogverse has already commented and reviewed the hell out of all the comics for any given week.
MyComicshop.com has great prices if you buy a lot of comics like I do (even if they don’t bag and board them), but I you have to pay for everything up front. If I had that kind of money lying around each month, I would have probably stuck with them, even though their customer support was a little lacking.
Midtowncomics.com has been done great so far (except for one problem that hasn’t been fixed yet). I like the way I can just go on to their site and start and stop subscriptions anytime I want. I just wish their website was a little faster on that part of their website. What can I say, I am impatient ;-) In any case, 15% of off new and back issues is a good deal, and you can subscribe to a title with just a click. They ship fast, and the service has been great so far. I recommend them if you are looking for a new place online for comics.
On another note, for some reason its really bugging me that I am not on my way to SDCC this year after going through updates on the New Comic Weblog Updates page, even though I know the size of the crowds would bug the hell out of me. It might have something to do with going to MMS in the same convention center as SDCC for two years in a row, plus the fact that I really liked San Diego and would really like to go back. It really was a nice place to spend a week, even though the area around the convention center closed up by 10pm. Any of you bastiges convention goers that are there, go have some fish tacos at the Tin Fish right in front of the Omni Hotel would ya? Just tell them Moz sent you. After they are done with their blank stare and say “who?” you can enjoy a nice meal and know I am there with you in spirit. If that doesn’t creep you out, that is.
