This Week's Comics: Batman, Fables

This week's reviews are dedicated to Jim Beard, who reviews comics for ComicsBulletin.com, and who has reviewed every single issue of both 52 and Countdown, on time every week for two years. He kept going with Countdown even though he hated most of it, thus saving me and many other fans time and money, at the cost of his own time and sanity. Thanks, Jim, and may Trinity be more like 52 and less like Countdown.

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NY State To Enforce Sales Tax on the Net?

As part of an effort to raise revenue, New York State has given Internet retailers five weeks to start collecting sales tax.

I'm of two minds about this. I think that if there is a sales tax, is should be applied to all sales. And certainly brick and mortar merchants are right in feeling that they can't really compete. But sales taxes are regressive, and the growth of "e-tail sales" has occurred in part due to the lack of sales tax being charged on many (though not all) sites.

I wonder if this will actually come to pass, or if, after a decade of being able to shop online, many of use are so used to to it that we won't mind the tax.