{"id":20223,"date":"2020-03-24T11:55:24","date_gmt":"2020-03-24T16:55:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/popculturenetwork.com\/wordpress\/?p=20223"},"modified":"2020-03-24T11:55:24","modified_gmt":"2020-03-24T16:55:24","slug":"is-your-local-comic-shop-doomed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/popculturenetwork.com\/wordpress\/2020\/03\/24\/is-your-local-comic-shop-doomed\/","title":{"rendered":"Is Your Local Comic Shop Doomed?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/wYABVC3F0dY?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The comic book industry is dying, there&#8217;s no doubt of that. But local comic shops have held on for years because of the fan base that habitually walks in every week. So what happens when comic fans no longer walk through that door and the habit is broken? Will comixology finally replace your LCS for good? Or is this just the end of the industry?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The comic book industry is dying, there&#8217;s no doubt of that. But local comic shops have held on for years because of the&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":20224,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[17,16,727,63],"tags":[62,411,119,543,46,900,1150,165,93,54,885,894,209,180,56,1149,19,895,1151,120],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/popculturenetwork.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/3tv2s6.jpg?fit=888%2C500","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":11640,"url":"http:\/\/popculturenetwork.com\/wordpress\/2019\/01\/12\/comic-book-chronicles-ep-296-young-ins-just-us-and-the-questions\/","url_meta":{"origin":20223,"position":0},"title":"Comic Book Chronicles Ep. 296: Young-ins, Just-Us, and the Questions!","author":"DiRT","date":"January 12, 2019","format":"video","excerpt":"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BPO0ooubupA Welcome to another exciting episode of\u00a0Comic Book Chronicles! 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