lessee...
$2.99 at 22 pages is 13 and 1/2 cents a page.
$2.99 at 22 pages minus 7 devotred to advertisements is 19.93(333...) cents a page.
Twenty cents a page in a comic that used to cost ten cents for the whole shebang.
Twenty cents a page for a story about someone in tights punching people. A story, mind you, easilly stolen for (what's that?) free.
Now, to follow one comic for one year (let's say Batman 'cause that's the only one I give a shit about) you have to buy the comic in question ($36) plus a year of fifty-two (that's $2.50, right?) at $130. Add to that this last year of jack-me-off stories (Infinate Crisis - $15, OMAC Project - $15, the Superman and Wonderwoman thing - $15, Villians United - $15, Countdown to Infinate Crisis - $15, were there more?) totalling at least $75. That adds up to be $241. to completely follow everything that is going on you also, unfortunately, must buy the books that relate to the main title (in the case of Batman that's Detective Comics, Robin, Birds of Prey, Nightwing, Gotham Central, Batgirl/woman) at something like $18 a month or $216 for the year. $457 later we know what's happening in Gotham City... but what about everywhere else? Surely something from 52 will spark one's interest for a storyline only continued in, say, Superman or Green Lantern or some other gayness like when they put the best Joker story ever into Superman instead of Batman comics where it belonged. Saying a person limits themselves to one comic they would never normally pick up a month, we total at $493 in this one upcoming year (averaging $41 a month).
That's six sipacks of GOOD bottled beer a month for a year. and the beer didn't pull my tits for four years leading up to this pretending to give me beer and then now take the alcohol back and show that it was really all pretend and worthless to be collecting the absurdly retarded fanfic-jism paper.
