So yesterday I went to The Forum, specifically the Landmark bookstore, to meet a friend sometime after work. Landmark has this uncanny habit of giving me nasty surprises, and yesterday was no exception. Right in front, there was a stack of the trades of Blade of The Immortal, Hiroaki Samura’s gory and occasionally hip look at Samurai lore. Now this is not the first time I’ve seen manga titles at Landmark, they have quite a large collection of teen manga titles like Negima and Ranma 1/2, but I am not too interested in them, really. Paying 400 Rs for a single teen title is too much for me, the last one I bought was for 120 Rs from MR Book Stall, a copy of Mars by Fumiyo Soryo, was not too impressed.

But now Blade of the Immortal? It features on my wishlist, and though I have the digital versions of the series, I would do anything to get the paperback. Or so I thought.

The retards had priced them at 750 Rs EACH. 750 Rupees for a 136 page book!! Stupid, stupid rat creatures!!

Anyways, there were also copies of David Lapham‘s crime series Stray Bullets Volume 1 ( 900 Rupees), Flight Vols 1 and 2, two anthologies of comics by independent creators, with very lush artwork ( 932 Rs and 1050 Rs, respectively), Mike Mignola’s Hellboy ( 750 Rs) and even The Art of Hellboy in softcover ( for 1025 Rs)

Ironically, I was about to bid on a complete run of Stray Bullets a couple of days ago on eBay, but very wisely managed to stop myself in time, because my credit card hasn’t quite recovered yet.

In other news, Vasu is back from his US trip with my package. Complete runs of Katsuhiro Otomo’s Akira and Brian Bendis and Alex Maleev’s run on Daredevil ( issues 19-70), woo hooo! Mucho thanks, gotjanx-sir, for all the help.