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Kenny ColeI started subscribing to VCBC after issue #6, when I bought issues 1-6 at a show. I was hooked. Purdy did a great job, and I was really disappointed but not too surprised when he got out.
Don Betz has not done as great a job. I am not thrilled that I receive it on a less than regular basis. I too subscribed for 12 issues over what I believed to be 12 months. I am also a lawyer and very familiar with the fact that a deal is generally a deal.
However, as has been mentioned, his wife died of cancer recently. In a strict sense, that doesn't excuse the delay. However, I'm pretty sure it would take me a while, if I ever could, to get over losing my life partner and get back on track. In a business sense, everyone who is complaining is completely correct. I haven't gotten #31 either.
However, I would like to think that slack can be cut when terrible things happen to people. If that happened to me, I'd be a wreck for years. I guess the difference is that I wouldn't even try to get a magazine out. I admire him for the effort, if not for the output. He's gotten one out and the next is on the way. In my opinion, that's far better than I, or most of you, would have done under the same circumstances. Feel free to disagree if you do.