Sigh. Recently, I’ve discovered that certain key titles have somehow gone missing from my graphic novel collection. These aren’t just any ol’ GNs, but much-beloved favorites, which indicates to me that I probably loaned them to someone in a “you must read! You will loooove it!!!” frenzy and then promptly forgot about it. The missing titles are (oh, this breaks my heart): Blue Monday: The Kids Are Alright, Box Office Poison, and the X-Men Dark Phoenix Saga. Sob!<\/p>\n
\nThe plan is to thoroughly search our comic archives and bookshelves and if that fails, I may just have to replace them. I can’t not have these things in my collection. Anyway, the dilemma I’m facing is that all three of these things (I think) are currently in re-print mode, which means I could either hunt down the editions I previously owned (which aren’t all first editions or anything, they just have sentimental value) or just get the newer editions, which have different covers. I’m not sure how much I care about this.<\/p>\n
\nLike, for example…this<\/a> is the cover of the Dark Phoenix trade I originally owned. Kickass, right? There is something undeniably classic and elegant about the cover. And yet…there is also something old-schoolish and crazily awesome about the cover of the newest re-print<\/a>, which comes out next week. A little more neon, yes. But still neat.<\/p>\n What would YOU do?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Sigh. Recently, I’ve discovered that certain key titles have somehow gone missing from my graphic novel collection. These aren’t just any ol’ GNs, but much-beloved favorites, which indicates to me that I probably loaned them to someone in a “you must read! You will loooove it!!!” frenzy and then promptly forgot about it. The missing […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-comics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}