{"id":1892,"date":"2008-09-17T18:57:11","date_gmt":"2008-09-17T22:57:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/comics212.net\/2008\/09\/17\/drowning-in-quality\/"},"modified":"2008-09-17T18:57:11","modified_gmt":"2008-09-17T22:57:11","slug":"drowning-in-quality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/comics212.net\/?p=1892","title":{"rendered":"Drowning in Quality&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" hspace=\"5\" align=\"right\" vspace=\"5\" alt=\"burmachronicles-790564.jpg\" id=\"image1891\" title=\"burmachronicles-790564.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/comics212.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/burmachronicles-790564.jpg\" \/>Is anyone else worried about the number of books that are coming out right now?<\/p>\n<p>A quick count of our shipping list reveals a little over 30 new graphic novels this week, including a number of excellent high-end releases. New Darwyn Cooke &#038; Tim Sale Superman, the Local hardcover, D&#038;Q&#8217;s entire awesome fall lineup (<span style=\"font-style: italic\">so much good!<\/span>), Plain Janes 2&#8230; And that&#8217;s before the manga! The all-in-one edition of Inoue&#8217;s VAGABOND shipped this week, as did the second Dragonball in that format AND 2 Inoue art books from the Vagabond series.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m just looking at all the books I wanted to buy from this week and last, and it&#8217;s well over 200 bucks, and that&#8217;s kinda crazy? A little? Maybe I&#8217;m just over-reacting because I&#8217;m trying to find space from all of this stuff on the racks <em>and there ain&#8217;t space<\/em>, maybe not. But you guys tell me; does your budget for comics and graphic novels allow you to buy everything you&#8217;d like? Do you suppliment purchasing with visits to the library or being a filthy stinking internet thief? Is there a larger the-economy-is-shit worry you have when deciding that the hideously <span style=\"font-weight: bold\">under<\/span>priced $30 <span style=\"font-style: italic\">Local <\/span>hardcover needs to go home with you today or not?<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;d love to hear your thoughts, because mine are pretty scattered at the moment.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Christopher<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Is anyone else worried about the number of books that are coming out right now? A quick count of our shipping list reveals a little over 30 new graphic novels this week, including a number of excellent high-end releases. New Darwyn Cooke &#038; Tim Sale Superman, the Local hardcover, D&#038;Q&#8217;s entire awesome fall lineup (so &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/comics212.net\/?p=1892\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Drowning in Quality&#8230;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1892","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-comics-retailing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/comics212.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1892","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/comics212.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/comics212.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comics212.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comics212.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1892"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/comics212.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1892\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/comics212.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1892"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comics212.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1892"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comics212.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1892"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}