{"id":2291,"date":"2009-02-18T11:44:00","date_gmt":"2009-02-18T16:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/comics212.net\/?p=2291"},"modified":"2009-02-18T11:45:01","modified_gmt":"2009-02-18T16:45:01","slug":"quick-follow-up-viz-de-list","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/comics212.net\/?p=2291","title":{"rendered":"Quick Follow-Up: 1000 Viz Manga Delisted at Diamond"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/comics212.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/03\/manga-shelves-final-565.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1652\" title=\"manga-shelves-final-565.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/comics212.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/03\/manga-shelves-final-565.jpg\" alt=\"manga-shelves-final-565.jpg\" width=\"565\" height=\"112\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/savagecritic.com\/2009\/02\/with-all-respect-to-chris-butcher.html\" target=\"_blank\">Brian Hibbs gets cranky at me<\/a> because this news casts Direct Market shops in a bad light, when it shouldn&#8217;t, because no one is buying any of these books anyway so it doesn&#8217;t matter if stores have access to them, even though they&#8217;re largely in-print. I declare my aesthetic superiority in the comments.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.comicsreporter.com\/index.php\/once_more_around_the_mulberry_bush\/\" target=\"_blank\">Tom Spurgeon<\/a> reframes Hibbs&#8217; argument to point out that, no, really, this is not a good move and a major paradigm-shift for Diamond.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/pwbeat.publishersweekly.com\/blog\/2009\/02\/17\/manga-industry-update\/\" target=\"_blank\">Heidi MacDonald<\/a>\u00a0kind of agrees with Hibbs, but she&#8217;s been in kind of a doom-and-gloom funk for the past few months, and so she can be forgiven.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/precur.wordpress.com\/2009\/02\/16\/i-guess-its-not-forever\/\" target=\"_blank\">David P. Welsh<\/a> has a great, personal response. And <a href=\"http:\/\/precur.wordpress.com\/2009\/02\/17\/unilateralism\/\" target=\"_blank\">follows it up<\/a> with the rumour that Viz didn&#8217;t have any idea this was happening.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mangablog.net\/?p=3547\" target=\"_blank\">Brigid Alverson<\/a> gets the straight scoop from Viz, which you should read.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Christopher<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brian Hibbs gets cranky at me because this news casts Direct Market shops in a bad light, when it shouldn&#8217;t, because no one is buying any of these books anyway so it doesn&#8217;t matter if stores have access to them, even though they&#8217;re largely in-print. I declare my aesthetic superiority in the comments. Tom Spurgeon &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/comics212.net\/?p=2291\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Quick Follow-Up: 1000 Viz Manga Delisted at Diamond&#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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2291","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/comics212.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2291","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=2291"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/comics212.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2291\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2293,"href":"https:\/\/comics212.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2291\/revisions\/2293"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/comics212.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comics212.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comics212.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}