{"id":906,"date":"2007-12-26T11:57:33","date_gmt":"2007-12-26T15:57:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/?p=906"},"modified":"2007-12-26T11:57:33","modified_gmt":"2007-12-26T15:57:33","slug":"midnight-sun-in-graphic-novels-worth-owning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/?p=906","title":{"rendered":"Midnight Sun in &#8220;Graphic Novels Worth Owning&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><em><font color=\"#000000\" face=\"Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif\" size=\"2\">                      <\/font><\/em><\/font><font color=\"#000000\" face=\"Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif\" size=\"2\">Johanna Draper Carlson gives a nice review to <em>Midnight Sun<\/em> in her new column, <a href=\"http:\/\/comicsunlimited.com\/comics\/htmlos.cgi\/00412.1.3712532425900017295\/store\/gnreviews.html\" target=\"_blank\">Graphic Novels Worth Owning<\/a>, mentioning it as one of the <a href=\"http:\/\/comicsworthreading.com\/2007\/12\/25\/new-comics-unlimited-column-20\/\" target=\"_blank\">best books of 2007<\/a>. Regardless of whether my own book were on this list or not, though, it&#8217;s just nice to see a &#8220;best of&#8221; list that&#8217;s actually at the <em>end<\/em> of the year. As mentioned in my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/?p=888\">earlier grousing<\/a>, I understand the desire to get those lists together ASAP&#8211;not just so folks can refer to them for Christmas shopping, but also so comics reviewers can close up shop and get to holiday festivities like the rest of us&#8211;but doing these lists super-early can overlook some notable stuff.\u00c2\u00a0 Like Chris Ware&#8217;s <em>Acme Novelty Library<\/em> #18 for example; that&#8217;s an end of year release that I don&#8217;t think I&#8217;ve seen on anyone&#8217;s list, but probably should have been.\u00c2\u00a0 Anyway, also of note on ComicsWorthReading.com is the coolest comics-related Christmas gift I&#8217;ve seen so far: a <a href=\"http:\/\/comicsworthreading.com\/2007\/12\/25\/wonderful-christmas-gift\/\" target=\"_blank\">hand-made Wonder Woman apron<\/a>!<\/font><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.slgcomic.com\/images\/shopimages\/regular\/midnightsunGN.jpg\" height=\"255\" width=\"216\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Johanna Draper Carlson gives a nice review to Midnight Sun in her new column, Graphic Novels Worth Owning, mentioning it as one of the best books of 2007. Regardless of whether my own book were on this list or not, though, it&#8217;s just nice to see a &#8220;best of&#8221; list that&#8217;s actually at the end &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link btn\" href=\"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/?p=906\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"footnotes":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[],"tags":[3,45],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p46veT-eC","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/906"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=906"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/906\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=906"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=906"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=906"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}