{"id":1227,"date":"2006-08-05T19:40:31","date_gmt":"2006-08-05T19:40:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/?p=1227"},"modified":"2006-08-05T19:40:31","modified_gmt":"2006-08-05T19:40:31","slug":"a-good-haul","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/archives\/1227","title":{"rendered":"A good haul!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The crew and I just got back from WizardWorld Chicago, which was, unfortunately, smaller than last year &#150; but I still walked out with a heck of a haul.  For about a hundred bucks, I walked out with all the following:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Issues 2, 3, and 4 of <i>How to Self-Publish Comics<\/i> by Josh Blaylock and Devil&#8217;s Due<\/li>\n<li><i>The Sandman Companion<\/i> by Hy Bender (which replaces my copy, which disappeared somewhere a couple of years ago; picked this up for half price)<\/li>\n<li><i>Conversation #1<\/i> by James Kochalka and Craig Thompson from Top Shelf Comics<\/li>\n<li>The Arabian Nights Sandman mini-statue from DC Comics (which I&#8217;d wanted years ago at its original $45 price, but I got today for $15)<\/li>\n<li>A Mantenna staction figure from the new MOTU Wave 3<\/li>\n<li><i>Hellboy: The Bones of Giants<\/i> novel by Christopher Golden (also half price)<\/li>\n<li>Hellboy and Abe Sapien Qee figurines (picked up at something like 40% off)<\/li>\n<li>A hardcover version of Neil Gaiman&#8217;s <i>1602<\/i> (picked up for $10; normally $25)<\/li>\n<li>And some surprises for some of the people who read this weblog&#8230;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Talon picked up a <i>ton<\/i> of comics from the 50-cent bins, which were everywhere, and our traveling companions also walked out with some fairly full bags.  All in all, a very successful day.  \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The crew and I just got back from WizardWorld Chicago, which was, unfortunately, smaller than last year &#150; but I still walked out with a heck of a haul. For about a hundred bucks, I walked out with all the following: Issues 2, 3, and 4 of How to Self-Publish Comics by Josh Blaylock and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1227","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-comics"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4e5QR-jN","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1227","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1227"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1227\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}