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Monday, March 21, 2005
Is it buyer's remorse if I haven't bought anything yet?
Graeme points to the news of a printing of Absolute Watchmen.
I suppose this is now another installment of "books Ian wants buy are too damn expensive to get." I've been looking for the Graphitti Designs hardcover of the book all over eBay but they aren't exactly all over the place and when they are, they fetch for around the $100 range. Now we have one that will be readily available, but don't these things cost $75? This is definitely an improvement than scrounging around eBay but I still feel like the prices of hardcover, deluxe books like this one are only successful at keeping them out of my hands. These announcements, for me, are all about pleasure and pain intertwining themselves around my brain.
For me, comics have always been a sundry purchase. I have read comics for work, which I enjoy, but overall I enjoy them as something apart from the realties, many of them financial, of my life. That's why spending $50 to $100 on one comic makes me squirm just a bit (all though it's a bit silly for me to feel that way seeing how I've spent that much money buying a bunch of comics). I have a love-hate relationship with comics and spending all that cash is a little too much love and not enough hate. To pick up this book or the $100 Fantastic Four Omnibus is an act that displays no loathing or cynicism about comics, and without those two things I feel a little uncomfortable. Do you know how many angry, hateful posts on this blog I’d have to make up for something like that!?
There is one piece of news that I am delighted to hear and that's the re-coloring. The original book's coloring is on the ugly side of horrendous. I would prefer if the original colorist John Higgins wasn't involved and someone like Matt Holligsworth would have been put in charge but I guess that's not the case. Still, Higgins couldn't possibly do a worse job than he already has (famous last words).
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