{"id":5459,"date":"2016-08-23T22:37:06","date_gmt":"2016-08-24T03:37:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hypercastle.com\/blog\/?p=5459"},"modified":"2016-08-23T22:37:06","modified_gmt":"2016-08-24T03:37:06","slug":"vortex-is-in-the-august-previews","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hypercastle.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/23\/vortex-is-in-the-august-previews\/","title":{"rendered":"Vortex is in the August Previews"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019m very excited to tell y&#8217;all that <em>Vortex<\/em> is on Page 269 of <em>Previews<\/em>, the Diamond comics catalogue! It\u2019ll be on shelves in fine comic book stores across the US on <del>October 26th<\/del> <strong>September 28th<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>If you\u2019d like a copy, ask your local comic book store to order it for you before September 2nd.<\/p>\n<p>Order code <strong>AUG161125<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hypercastle.com\/images\/2016-08-23_Alternative-Comics-August-Previews.png\" alt=\"Alternative Comics page of the August Previews\"><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>You may have noticed that these two pages are the Alternative Comics section of <em>Previews<\/em>. After Virginia Paine decided to close Sparkplug Books, Marc Arsenault of <a href=\"http:\/\/indyworld.com\/\">Alternative Comics<\/a> inherited most of Sparkplug&#8217;s backstock. I&#8217;m grateful to Virginia for taking a chance on <em>Vortex<\/em> and all the work she did to get the Kickstarter funded and the book printed and distributed. Running a publisher as a third job is hard work and I&#8217;m glad that she&#8217;s going to be able to focus on her own awesome comics, like <a href=\"http:\/\/thewhyscomic.com\/\"><em>The WHYs<\/em>, an epic webcomic about queer superpowered teens<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The reviewer Rob Clough of High-Low said goodbye to Sparkplug in <a href=\"http:\/\/highlowcomics.blogspot.com\/2016\/06\/saying-good-bye-to-sparkplug-lee.html\">a review round-up that includes <em>Vortex<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019m very excited to tell y&#8217;all that Vortex is on Page 269 of Previews, the Diamond comics catalogue! It\u2019ll be on shelves in fine comic book stores across the US on October 26th September 28th. If you\u2019d like a copy, ask your local comic book store to order it for you before September 2nd. Order [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,13],"tags":[709],"class_list":["post-5459","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-press","category-print-comics","tag-vortex"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hypercastle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5459","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hypercastle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hypercastle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hypercastle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hypercastle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5459"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hypercastle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5459\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hypercastle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hypercastle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hypercastle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}