Cats & Comics
Apr. 17th, 2011 03:57 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
shannon_aCats. So we got the verdict back on Cobweb yesterday. She's apparently got E. Coli in her kidney, which is a pretty common feline kidney infection. More to the point, we now have an antibiotic that should treat her precise infection. It's in pill form, unfortunately. We started giving it to her last night with our new pill shooter. Our doc says that we should probably be giving her some antibiotic long-term, because infections are likely to recur in her kidney at this point. But that's a problem for another day. She seemed to eat more of her lunchtime meal today than she had in a considerable while, so I'll take that as a cautiously optimistic sign.
Comics. Went by The Escapist today, which is the new Comic Relief. My goal was to get a short magazine box to help the continued organization of my office. Though that was a failure (with magazine-like boxes due on Tuesday) I was cautiously optimistic about the store overall.
First, the store looks like the Comic Relief that I remember, with two tight walls of tradepaperbacks truly laying out its purpose as the comic book store. It looked more like Comic Relief than the actual store had in a couple of weeks, though that might have been because the narrower store really highlighted the bookshelf focus.
Second, stocking was greatly improved. When I looked at a series of trades, it was all there, which hasn't been the case at the former Comic Relief in years (and in fact was the straw that broke my going-to-Comic-Relief back).
It's probably not enough to lure me back, sadly, because my economics would make it really hard to shift back from online discounts to storefront purchases, especially given how comic prices have spiralled out of control since I was last buying at a store (especially at Marvel, which was another straw, as they'd started moving their prices up a while ago around the time they started leading with "premiere" hardcovers). But it's nonetheless looks again like a store that Rory would have been proud of, which I would not have said of his own store in the years after his death.
Comics. Went by The Escapist today, which is the new Comic Relief. My goal was to get a short magazine box to help the continued organization of my office. Though that was a failure (with magazine-like boxes due on Tuesday) I was cautiously optimistic about the store overall.
First, the store looks like the Comic Relief that I remember, with two tight walls of tradepaperbacks truly laying out its purpose as the comic book store. It looked more like Comic Relief than the actual store had in a couple of weeks, though that might have been because the narrower store really highlighted the bookshelf focus.
Second, stocking was greatly improved. When I looked at a series of trades, it was all there, which hasn't been the case at the former Comic Relief in years (and in fact was the straw that broke my going-to-Comic-Relief back).
It's probably not enough to lure me back, sadly, because my economics would make it really hard to shift back from online discounts to storefront purchases, especially given how comic prices have spiralled out of control since I was last buying at a store (especially at Marvel, which was another straw, as they'd started moving their prices up a while ago around the time they started leading with "premiere" hardcovers). But it's nonetheless looks again like a store that Rory would have been proud of, which I would not have said of his own store in the years after his death.