Sailormoon meme-bonus

I'm either going to have to give a less than truthful answer for the current question, skip it until I'm done with the series, OR... no, wait. Those are my options pretty much. Ah well. To tide you over (since I'm sure you obsessively check to see if I'm on to the next day or not), I present...

an item from my Sailormoon Collection. If you can call it that, anyway.


( what the fuzzy? )

Let's continue with the theme of "shiny things in my room!" shall we?


( Oh, lets! )

Later we discuss what the hell is going on with the Charmed comics and also, where the hell is my copy of issue 0?

Cover art onslaught.

As promised we bring you the Charmed comics covers for the upcoming releases. Well, some of them. Apparently some of the cover art isn't finalized. Go figure.

2A:

( Shhh. )

So, proving that I cannot get a break when it comes to ordering things online these days, I've had two more annoyances pile up. One was the middle of last month. I ordered pants for work because every time I tried to find them in the store, they only had petites or the wrong color. There was a sale and I figured what the hell. Ordered them on July 16. They said, since I had them shipped to the store, that I should expect an email around the 26th. Okay, fine. Around the 20-something-th I checked my email to see when I was supposed to be expecting an email because I didn't want to miss it, y'know? Turns out they'd been shipped and arrived July 20th. Awesome. Checked email. Nothing beyond the, "Please wait for us to email you when your order is ready to be picked up" instructions. Okay...

I wait. And the date passes. And then it turns into August. And NOTHING. You think to yourself, "But why didn't you just call or go?" Because they open just enough later than when I get off work so that by then exhaustion has kicked my ass and I am one of those people who avoids the phone like the plague. Plus Mums kept saying she'd stop by and see if the pants were in and then... she kept not doing just that. Grr. Argh.

Finally she swears that Saturday will be the day! THE DAY. Instead she sends my brother. WTF, man. WTF. Whatever. My pants are in their little Fed-Ex white plastic envelope thing. I check my email Sunday morning and what do you know, after he picked the pants up there's an email that says, "You can pick your stuff up now!"

Fuckwits.

And now to bring it back to Charmed. When I ordered my subscription (and if I'd been sober when I did this order I might have rethought the whole thing considering it cost just as much to ship it as it did for each issue. o_O) there was a little note that said if you want issue #0 you have to order it separately. I did. My email even tells me so. I get issue #1 on Thursday or Friday. Hunh. When I open it, I figure that 0 will be lurking with it and they just... combined shipping or something. Annoying since I'd paid (apparently) for them to send them as they came in but it happens.

No 0. So I email customer service after checking to make sure I truly did order the issue (I did) and whether the subscription included the other covers or just one. (Just one.) I get a very prompt email that says that if I wanted 0, I had to order it separately. I email them back and point out that I did catch that disclaimer way back when, which is why I did, in fact, order the issue. I get another email that says he'll check on it when there's actually someone working warehouse. All pretty impressive at 12-1AM.

Still, this and the insane shipping charges (they might not really be all that insane, but you see something literally doubled and you kind of freak out.) make it pretty likely that I will continue to default to TFAW as my primary online comic book dealer. Although this way I don't have to worry about a $5 charge every month. It's all paid for upfront.

And no, I haven't read the issue yet. The fear is strong.