Cintiques

So far the biggest annoyance has been that I apparently managed to miss both a $300-off mail-in rebate (by 3 days) and the announcement of Wacom's newer-and-better model coming soon. Sigh.

Anyway, I got to try the newer one at Comicon Seattle and while the new button arrangement was a big improvement (the sliders are on the back so you no longer constantly bump them while leaning too close) it didn't seem like enough of a huge improvement to be worth paying a fortune to upgrade.

Maybe I'll get lucky and this one will up and die inside warranty.

Anyway, I heartily recommend the Cintiq if you can afford it. I've really started to like digital inking with it; much more approachable for me than inking with the old Intuos.