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⌈ Secret Post #2452 ⌋

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[Giles Coren and Sue Perkins, The Supersizers Eat… The Eighties]

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[Jeff Davis/Teen Wolf]

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[Django Unchained]

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[Valiant Hearts: The Great War]

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[Child of Light]

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[Jurassic Park]

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[Hate Plus]

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[The Three Investigators]

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[Charlie Hunnam]

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Okay, so I like comics, and I like Kickstarter. However, lately I've seen a growing trend among comics that's I'm not fond of, which is for people to run Kickstarters for single issues of their comic/webcomic, rather than compiling it into volumes.

For those not in the know, issues are something around 30 pages, compared to volumes that can be something like 100 pages (and also frequently have additional material like concept art). Volumes can be trade paperbacks or hardcovers, but issues by necessity are kind of flimsy.

Of course, mainstream comics are generally first released in issue format and then collected into volumes... but, well, take this for example, since its prices are fairly par-for-the-course for single-issue Kickstarters: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1703003617/chameleon-charm-issue-1

Okay. If you want a physical copy it costs $7... That's fairly expensive for a single issue, but I guess for Americans since the shipping is included in the price that's reasonable, especially since it's an indie comic. However, then international shipping adds $10. $17 for a single issue! Where shipping is over half the price! I can basically never, ever justify to myself buying something where shipping is more than the price of what I'm getting.

Which is where my preference for volumes comes in. You're getting more at one time, for one, which I like, but it also means that shipping costs aren't split across multiple issues like they'd have to be with ordering single issues from Kickstarter. And since volumes cost more, the shipping is a lower percentage of the cost. For example, I supported the Digger Omnibus Kickstarter. Shipping outside the US was $35, but it's also an 800+-page hardcover that cost $70. That's a pretty impressive chunk of book!

I mean, sure I could just get the digital volumes and save the shipping costs, but what's even the point of that where webcomics are involved?

So yeah. That's my tl;dr rant about wishing Kickstarter comic creators would do things the way I WANT THEM TO OMG. My pants. They are in a bunch over inconsequential things.

And while I'm bouncing off of that, one of my favorite artists is doing the second kickstarter in a year for a comic that he's updated less than once a month, which proabably means it will be 2020 by the time he gets to the end of the current arc.

NAME NAMES

I must have misread something and thought he started another one. The Dresden Codak kickstarter was back in March.

Yeah, why he got money I'll never know. Hell, at least Anita hadn't proven how shitty she was yet!

I wouldn't buy them and if I could, I'd tell them that's why. I'm all for supporting indie projects of all kinds but that's a huge ripoff.

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