I'm a big loser. Except that I'm a big loser with a new car. This is the reason that I have not been posting here more regularly. Having just bought a car has left me poor and I have not ventured to the comic store in a couple of weeks. So this brings me to the subject of comic book prices.
Comics are too expensive, really.
Even if we agree that most comic art is that expressive, I doubt that comics are a good buy. Throw in another 2000 words for actual text, and a comic is worth about 200,000 words. Admittedly, I'm surprised it's not more and that the comic would therefore have about five times the value on a per theoretical word basis. Re-thinking the comic calculation, I've realized I was WAY too generous. This is 8 times lower in value than a book and, hence, about 3 times lower in value per unit.