During my last visit to Filbar’s Megamall I saw this Chase collected edition TPB at their bargain section. Thinking of buying it, I considered the pros and cons. Pro: it’s 352 pages long and worth only a little over P900 (down from P1,300 plus); con: P900 is still too much. Pro: it’s a nifty looking book with a cool old-school cover; con: I know zip about the character and for all I know the story is shit. Pro: story looks interesting based on the synopsis; con: I still have tons of comic books to read.

It was a deadlock, so I stuck with the status quo and settled with the next best thing: free copies online. Turned out there are only nine issues, as Chase was a short-lived series that came out in 1998. Read the first two issues today and thought they were not bad.

Went to Megamall after work today with a mission: score the newly released Night Thrasher action figure by Marvel Legends. It was a plan hatched in the wee hours after I saw my brother’s private message on Facebook informing me that the Kingpin Wave is now available at Toy Kingdom. On the train en route to the mall I wasn’t optimistic. Between yesterday and this afternoon there was big chance that somebody may have already bought Night Thrasher. But Lady Luck was smiling on me today, and I went home a happy camper albeit P1,399 poorer.

Sometimes I wonder if I’m just fooling myself with all this cost-cutting shit I’m hyping about.