Running up and alongside the new volume of The Ultimates (with Mark Millar and Bryan Hitch at the helm), a black and white variant was on the table at a 50/50 split. Concerns over the possibility of retailers being left with the uncoloured version on their shelves saw that ratio switched out to 1/10.

The standard full colour version was just like any other Marvel comic. The variant, however, featured no lettering and instead the raw inks (or pencils, I'm not too sure), with the script at the back. Or part of. They hardly do the full on a single issue.

So anyway, Hart, a long time customer, was among the few to be offered the variant along with the normal version. Saying, "No, thanks" would have been easy. Buying that over the regular or buying both would have been okay. Neither of these happened. Instead, deliberation.

Weeks of.

It's a hard decision: go both or the variant interior to the normal. Buy only that, and the story's a little punctured following on. Buy both, and that's another comic not being tested.

What would you do?