{"id":113,"date":"2007-05-04T12:56:00","date_gmt":"2007-05-04T17:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/comicscomicsmag.com\/2007\/05\/why-didnt-they-mention-this\/"},"modified":"2007-05-04T12:56:00","modified_gmt":"2007-05-04T17:56:00","slug":"why-didnt-they-mention-this","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/comicscomicsmag.com\/?p=113","title":{"rendered":"Why Didn&#8217;t They Mention This"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>in that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2007\/05\/04\/books\/04comi.html?_r=1&#038;oref=slogin\">Times article<\/a> about all the New York comic shops?<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bryan-talbot.com\/\">Bryan Talbot<\/a>&#8216;s American tour for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.powells.com\/partner\/30974\/biblio\/9781593076733\">Alice in Sunderland<\/a> had its moments: `The signing at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jhuniverse.com\/\">Jim Hanley&#8217;s Universe<\/a> in New York was nearly cancelled &#8212; a guy jumped from the 60th floor of the <a href=\"http:\/\/digitalgallery.nypl.org\/nypldigital\/dgkeysearchresult.cfm?parent_id=131032\">Empire State Building<\/a> just a couple of hours before. He hit a ledge but one of his legs made it to the sidewalk right outside the store and the police closed off the street. Fortunately they&#8217;d cleaned it up and the store reopened in time for the signing. We were shown photos of the errant (and extremely grisly) leg by the store staff! It happened on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.howstuffworks.com\/friday-thirteenth.htm\">Friday 13th<\/a>.&#8217;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div style=\"text-align: right;\">\u2014Dave Langford&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/news.ansible.co.uk\/a238.html\">Ansible<\/a><\/div>\n<p>UPDATE: A few minutes after I posted this, I realized that the reason it went unmentioned is that the <span style=\"font-style:italic;\">Times<\/span> writer visited the Staten Island branch of Hanley&#8217;s, not the Manhattan one. But still\u2014this is the kind of thing you find a way to work in!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>in that Times article about all the New York comic shops? Bryan Talbot&#8216;s American tour for Alice in Sunderland had its moments: `The signing at Jim Hanley&#8217;s Universe in New York was nearly cancelled &#8212; a guy jumped from the 60th floor of the Empire State Building just a couple of hours before. He hit a ledge but one of his legs made it to the sidewalk right outside the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[179,522,959,1190],"class_list":["post-113","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-talbot","tag-great-comics-stores","tag-nyt","tag-severed-limbs"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/comicscomicsmag.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/comicscomicsmag.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/comicscomicsmag.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comicscomicsmag.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comicscomicsmag.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=113"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/comicscomicsmag.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/comicscomicsmag.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comicscomicsmag.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comicscomicsmag.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}