Standing in the comic shop aisle last Tuesday trying to pick between a Silver Age Fantastic Four reprint and a modern indie horror book

I had $15 in my pocket and had to choose between a beat-up FF #49 reprint or this new horror comic called The Last Halloween I heard good things about. Went with the horror book because the art on the cover looked so creepy I couldn't walk away from it. Anyone else ever bail on a classic for something totally new and regret it or feel great about it?

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grace_fox31mo ago

You picked The Last Halloween over the FF reprint? That's exactly the kind of move I make all the time, and I never regret it. Last month I walked out with a first printing of this weird little book called The Devil's Candy instead of a Crisis on Infinite Earths issue I'd been hunting for months. The indie book ended up being this super creative story about a haunted candy shop, and I still think about it way more than I ever would have that DC comic. There's something special about taking a chance on something nobody's talking about yet, you know? Hope your horror book delivers the same kind of surprise.

spencerl321mo ago

100 bucks says The Last Halloween ends up being the one I grab off the shelf years from now, not that FF reprint. @grace_fox3 you got me rethinking my whole comic buying strategy, but I bet I'll still make the same "wrong" choice next time. My pile of weird books nobody's heard of keeps getting bigger, and I'm fine with that.