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.
Read the first issue of Ed Brubaker and Sean Phillips’ Criminal over the weekend and was, for lack of better term, floored. Really, why can’t comics — or at least this one — be weekly instead of monthly? Methinks 30 days is too long to wait for Criminal issue #2.
A comic book a day 