Now let me get this straight.
Dark Night III: The Master Race, a 9 issue series, cost $5.99 per issue . . . unless you bought the Collector's Edition (which had exactly the same contents, just that part of it was in a different size), which cost $12.99 per issue. Okay . . . that in itself makes no sense to me at all, but let's let that go.
That means that the total cost of the series is either $53.91 or $116.91. (Comixology gives you a little bit of a break on the former price, since it has issues #1 to #4 at $4.99 each, but the rest are still at full $5.99 price, so the grand total there is $49.91, and I'm going to guess that you won't be seeing that drop in the near near.)
That's a spicy meatball.
But I just saw that the collected edition is being released with a list price of $29.99 (both print and digital), and with an Amazon price of $19.49 ($18.52 digital on Kindle . . . though it's $19.99 on Comixology).
What the fucking fuckety fuck is up with THAT shit?
I was interested in this book when it first came out in November 2015, but I didn't pick it up because I thought the price was out-fucking-rageous. And the Collector's Edition thing seemed like a really mean spirited thing for DC to do to exploit us comic book nerds. But putting the price of the (hardcover) collected edition at half the price of the "regular" edition . . . that's just pissing in the face of the fan who put down those hard bucks.
So fuck you, DC. I really love you guys for a lot of things, but as far as this comic book goes, I can live without it, foe show.
What a suck ass thing to do to the fans.
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