{"id":565,"date":"2005-05-19T14:07:00","date_gmt":"2005-05-19T14:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.beatzo.net\/blog\/2005\/05\/nassty-pricess\/"},"modified":"2005-05-19T14:07:00","modified_gmt":"2005-05-19T14:07:00","slug":"nassty-pricess","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beatzo.net\/blog\/2005\/05\/nassty-pricess\/","title":{"rendered":"Nassty Pricess"},"content":{"rendered":"

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<\/a><\/i>, 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<\/i> and Ranma 1\/2<\/i>, but I am not too<\/i> 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<\/i> by Fumiyo Soryo, was not too impressed. <\/p>\n

But now Blade of the Immortal<\/i>? 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.<\/p>\n

The retards had priced them at 750 Rs EACH. 750 Rupees for a 136 page book!! Stupid, stupid rat creatures!! <\/p>\n

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

Ironically, I was about to bid on a complete run of Stray Bullets<\/i> 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.<\/p>\n

In other news, Vasu is back from his US trip with my package. Complete runs of Katsuhiro Otomo’s Akira<\/i> and Brian Bendis and Alex Maleev’s run on Daredevil<\/i> ( issues 19-70), woo hooo! Mucho thanks, gotjanx<\/a>-sir, for all the help.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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