No problem! I hope it works well for you. I can also say that, based on my experience, Monoprice is not just an "if you can't afford a Wacom" situation; it works every bit as well as any Wacom I've ever used. (Though it is worth noting that I also recommend the older Graphire if you're dead set on a Wacom, and had great experiences with mine; you can probably get a used one fairly cheap nowadays!) Similarly, I find Clip Studio Paint far superior to Photoshop in terms of what comic creators tend to need, plus the overall cost is much, much lower and you get far more for your money. I feel like the pen lines and most of the media brushes, even the default ones, are just better than Photoshop's offerings.
I can weigh in on the question of traditional art and digital finish too, since I worked that way for many years before going purely digital.
Clip Studio Paint/Manga Studio 5 is a fantastic and robust program that works well both with digital and traditional. I tend to recommend working pure digital with it, but there's no reason you can't import the scans from your scanner and do digital finishing. If there's anything else you need to do that you can't easily figure out with Clip Studio Paint, I'm entirely sure you can grab a free program like Gimp to fill in the small gaps. At this point, however, I'm pretty sure Clip Studio Paint can do anything you'd need for that purpose.
It's honestly not hard to get the hand-eye coordination with looking at a screen and drawing on a tablet. It just takes some practice. As I noted in another topic, you already have the skills for art, so all you're doing is adapting them to a new medium that is similar enough to the traditional approach you already know. Honestly, learning to use a tablet for my art made me better at a number of traditional media! So I'm hopeful that it will help you too.
It's also worth noting that, with scanning things in or producing them digitally, as long as you keep regular backups, there's far less risk of loss or damage of your art. With traditional art on paper or canvas, it's really very easy to damage or lose art. With digital backups of everything, it's a very different situation indeed. Something to think about! 
