Buying comics again

Now that I’ve got some money coming in, I can afford to buy more than the trickle of comics I’ve been allowing myself. Work is right near Midtown Comics, where I was within $6 of earning $20 of store credit, so I picked up volumes 2 and 3 of Uzumaki, the trippy Japanese horror comic about a town haunted by spirals. Good, creepy stuff, and the story ends in three volumes, so you don’t have to go buying dozens of books to follow it.

On Tuesday I visited the Compleat Strategist to see if anything interesting and new was out (yeah, some, but nothing I felt like buying), and then stopped off at Jim Henley’s Universe and got issue #6 of Raina Telgemeier’s minicomic Take Out, and issue #2 of Comic Art magazine (with the Jack Cole girlie pictures).

I’d been sure there was a bunch more stuff I wanted to get, but at Cosmic today the only thing I saw that interested me was Absent Friends by Paul Grist and Phil Elliott. Haven’t read it yet. I looked around for the second Courtney Crumrin book (which I’d thought was out by now), but didn’t see it; likewise for a couple of manga volumes I’d been thinking of getting.