Want. Take. Have.

I saw it. I wanted it. I let my friend's wife leave the breakfast table this morning still wearing it but I knew I had to have one.

BUY:

$34.50 including postage and handling from Cafe Press

WHY?

I love Buffy.

It's not love in the sense of "Wow, the show is really great and sure I love watching Buffy" (which is all true). It's more a "I've seen the show so many times I inadvertantly use quotes from it and so the Facebook group 'All my witty banter I owe to Buffy the Vampire Slayer' is sadly true". It's a "I own the whole series on DVD and I watch at least one or two episodes a week, I read fanfiction and I have even bought the crappy teenage fiction novels from eBay..." The Buffyverse is my version of comfort food and she has seen me through a number of broken hearts, boring jobs and city shuffles.

Also, watch this YouTube clip:

 

BUY:

$4.90 - Buffy comic.

WHY?

What many Buffy fans don't realise is that Joss Whedon continued writing a Season 8 after the show finished and this has been released in graphic novel form. And yep, I buy them. Religiously. I was one fan that didn't know about the Season 8 phenomenon for a while so I have since tracked down a lot of the earlier comic editions on eBay. I'm pretty much caught up now and now buy them as they are released. Both covers (where possible). As I did on Thursday.

WHY?

What I also did on Thursday that I have been wanting to do for ages is protect my collection. I have about 50 comic books which have been sitting in the paperbags that hid them from prying eyes as I left the Phanton Zone. So I bought the following:

BUY:

$13.95 - protective PVC-free plastic sheets to protect the comics from dust

$24 - 2 x magazine files to store the comics

Now you know my not-so-secret - I'm a geek.