Title: Prevarication complete
Post by: wedgeski on 12 June, 2014, 10:54:20 AM
Post by: wedgeski on 12 June, 2014, 10:54:20 AM
I um'd. I ah'd. But I finally did it. I got the combi magazine subscription. My first prog arrived just yesterday.
It was a weird feeling, getting a 2000AD in the post. For all the years I collected it in my youth, it was always with a trip to the news-agent or WHSmith's. I loved that ritual, in fact.
So, it feels great to have it delivered to my door, but also strangely...passive as well. I'll get over it.
It was a weird feeling, getting a 2000AD in the post. For all the years I collected it in my youth, it was always with a trip to the news-agent or WHSmith's. I loved that ritual, in fact.
So, it feels great to have it delivered to my door, but also strangely...passive as well. I'll get over it.
Title: Re: Prevarication complete
Post by: Proudhuff on 12 June, 2014, 11:14:51 AM
Post by: Proudhuff on 12 June, 2014, 11:14:51 AM
and after a few weeks, its addictive! :D
Title: Re: Prevarication complete
Post by: Jim_Campbell on 12 June, 2014, 11:24:34 AM
Post by: Jim_Campbell on 12 June, 2014, 11:24:34 AM
Quote from: wedgeski on 12 June, 2014, 10:54:20 AM
So, it feels great to have it delivered to my door, but also strangely...passive as well. I'll get over it.
It's like having servants!
Cheers
Jim
Title: Re: Prevarication complete
Post by: Dandontdare on 12 June, 2014, 11:26:49 AM
Post by: Dandontdare on 12 June, 2014, 11:26:49 AM
... and then just when you get used to it, the postie will fail to deliver one Saturday and it will mess up your entire weekend routine!
Title: Re: Prevarication complete
Post by: judgerufian on 12 June, 2014, 11:42:10 AM
Post by: judgerufian on 12 June, 2014, 11:42:10 AM
The sound of the prog hitting the doormat on a Saturday morning is like the angel gang tugging at your heart strings. Oh and when its a prog and Meg weekend, its pure joy as it crashlands and makes a racket guaranteed to wake the house.
A word of warning though.......I recommend loosening or oiling your letterbox cover so you dont get a crumpled prog (its the only down side to a subscription)
A word of warning though.......I recommend loosening or oiling your letterbox cover so you dont get a crumpled prog (its the only down side to a subscription)
Title: Re: Prevarication complete
Post by: CrazyFoxMachine on 12 June, 2014, 12:11:14 PM
Post by: CrazyFoxMachine on 12 June, 2014, 12:11:14 PM
Sigh... I greatly miss my subscription. I bought it regular as clockwork from newsagents every Wednesday for ten years before I decided to go for it and suddenly it was MAGIC. I'll never forget the day I realised my post-box was exactly the same size as a prog and this happened on opening it...
BANG. Best way to see a cover for the first time. Although I think they started turning them round in the envelopes after that so the cover wasn't showing - understandable - the thrill-power might overload the postperson's brain.
Sigh - anyway I couldn't afford to keep up with it and now I have a s/o at my local comic shop that builds and builds and builds... they hate me down there.
BANG. Best way to see a cover for the first time. Although I think they started turning them round in the envelopes after that so the cover wasn't showing - understandable - the thrill-power might overload the postperson's brain.
Sigh - anyway I couldn't afford to keep up with it and now I have a s/o at my local comic shop that builds and builds and builds... they hate me down there.
Title: Re: Prevarication complete
Post by: Colin YNWA on 12 June, 2014, 12:29:02 PM
Post by: Colin YNWA on 12 June, 2014, 12:29:02 PM
'Tis a thing of beauty. Joy to ya door step. Now if they'd only come up with a service to box up the kids for 30 minutes so I could savoir it in peace!