I won't lie, time has made me look at Pullman's work a lot less kindly than I did two decades ago.

This is what happens when you have an entire entertainment industry that's based on keeping people in a state of perpetual childhood for as long as possible.

Yeah, that's why your stores struggle. That's why they fail. Y'all push away customers and then pretend that you're part of our community. You're not. You're scalpers and capitalist leeches.

That's why we don't buy anything from your stores :D

I still to this day have several copies of the editions they published. Even when I worked for them, I didn't find out why the licence ended so abruptly.