I decided to abandon my whole abstinance-from-any-needless-spending thing last night. It's been about a month since I've purchased anything of interest and I was running out of stuff to escape into. So I allowed myself a small splurge on a small budget.
The best part was all of the truly good stuff I found:
1. Craig Thompson's Blankets is truly a personal epic of the comic book genre. At a whopping 582 pages, I'm sure it'll keep me busy for quite some time. The first chapter was very sad. This is the first time I've read anything highly personal and seemingly tragic in the comic book genre from a male perspective. Or, maybe he's just a person telling a story and there is no "male perspective" involved. In any case, I'm hooked and very happy with my big-ass chunky comic. Here is a link to Top Shelf's homepage as well, since it has quite a few news bits about Blankets. Don't forget to scroll down.
2. Neil Gaiman's Endless Nights has just been released. I found it last night at Barnes and Noble of all places. It looks gorgeous. I haven't read it yet, but being a long-time Sandman fan, I'm pretty excited to read more tales about The Endless. And, the best part is the design and cover art by Dave McKean and a fully illustrated story by Bill Sienkewicz.
3. Pokemon anyone? I'm dangerously obsessed with Pokemon Sapphire. So obsessed, that I actually bought the card game for Eric and I to play. He's reading through the instructions as we speak since, like my mother, I'm too lazy to read through such things and prefer his patient explanations. Plus, he thoroughly enjoys this stuff, being a hardcore gamer. So, see, everyone's happy.
4. The new issue of Bust is quite good. Lot's of dark and Halloweeny stuff. There's an interview with Juliette Lewis -- although, I'm not too sure about the name of her band. It wreaks of Kevin Bacon and The Bacon brothers and that can only be a bad thing.
5. Embarrasingly, I simply had to buy the Talk Talk Natural History CD. What can I say? My eighties music fandom knows no bounds.
I also purchased some miscellaneous items like about eight packs of Teaberry Clove Gum, a case for my beloved Gameboy, some aluminum game cartridge cases (the blue one being the same shade as my Sapphire cartridge -- and how perfect is that?) and some chocolate pumpkins for my pumpkin. Ahem.
And now, I can say that I'm satisfied. Hopefully this feeling will last longer than a week.
