Letters to the Editor
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Anonymous Complaints Are Not Legitimate
By no stretch of the true meaning of "legitimate" could anonymous posts be considered worth of that description. Thus, complaints from an anonymous source are not legitimate. As it is said by wise folk of old: "Put thy money where thy mouth is."
The books are worth the price, and it's worth noting that anonymous whiners likely pay as much as (or more than) the price of one volume (roughly $20) for a two-person meal, digested and excreted within 12 hours, while a graphic novel can be enjoyed repeatedly by more than two people ad infinitum. A tank of gas likely costs you more than $20 and likely lasts less than a week. The monthly cable bill is probably more than three volumes of this work.
It may be a cliché to say it, but "you get what you pay for," anonymous whiner. You pay low price for low quality and shell out serious cash for serious, quality work. Witness the "dollar menu" of your favorite fast-food hole and compare it to the gourmet menu of that place you always avoid because you think it's "too expensive." I'm sure you dig the toadburgers, but we all know the better food is on the tables of those who pay the price.
Class issues aside, it's why Americans keep getting fatter and stupider - they don't want to pay for quality, so they buy cheap (and in quantity). They stuff themselves with the fast-food dollar menu, binge on hours of TV, then wonder why they feel bad, are so unhappy, and can't seem to drop that 10-20 extra pounds that hangs accusingly over the waistband. America is in recession, but two things are growing: American Waste and American Waists.
Of course, if you like cheap burgers and fries, then spend all the money from your minimum-wage job at the fast-food chains, keep watching TV, avoid all printed materials, and waste into a pile of fatty tissue that is likely worth more to liposuction surgeons than anyone else on this rock.
Some of us want to live, however, and that means to be alive, to be engaged, to be stimulated by the world around us. For some of us, a dollar is a lot to pay for a crappy burger, and sixty bucks is a small cost for unlimited aesthetic pleasure.