{"id":4123,"date":"2010-07-12T18:30:27","date_gmt":"2010-07-12T22:30:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=4123"},"modified":"2010-07-12T16:45:42","modified_gmt":"2010-07-12T20:45:42","slug":"monday-various-51","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=4123","title":{"rendered":"Monday various"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.avclub.com\/articles\/who-is-harvey-pekar,43000\/\">RIP, Harvey Pekar<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>So you&#8217;ve heard about this new <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.wsj.com\/speakeasy\/2010\/07\/04\/woman-womans-new-costume-superhero-fail\/\">Wonder Woman costume<\/a>, right?<br \/>\n<blockquote><p>It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s as if the people designing her new look didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t want to make a decision about who she is as a hero. And this is the basic problem &#8211; a superhero costume projects an idea, and no one knows what the idea of Wonder Woman is. She was conceived to be the original, iconic female superhero, but seventy years into her history, no one quite knows what a genuinely powerful superheroine should look like or what her story is. It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s sad, but because there have been a hell of a lot of interesting women, and women characters, to think about since 1941.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I&#8217;m not too impressed by it either. [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bookslut.com\/blog\/\" title=\"Bookslut\">via<\/a>]<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/scifiwire.com\/2010\/07\/image-of-the-day-worst-sp.php\">Worst comic book origin story ever<\/a>?<\/li>\n<li>Noel Murray <a href=\"http:\/\/www.avclub.com\/articles\/astro-city-vs-planetary-superhero-reconstruction-v,41795\/?utm_medium=RSS&#038;utm_campaign=feeds&#038;utm_source=channel_books\">revisits Warren Ellis&#8217; <i>Planetary<\/i> and Kurt Busiek&#8217;s <i>Astro City<\/i><\/a>:<br \/>\n<blockquote><p>I like <i>Planetary<\/i> a lot. I think it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s some of Warren Ellis\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 and John Cassaday\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s best work, and when I read it, I definitely feel their affection for the characters and concepts they\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re subjecting to deeper scrutiny. But <i>Planetary<\/i> feels more like a memorial\u00e2\u20ac\u201da eulogy. <i>Planetary<\/i> exhumes old bones, while <i>Astro City<\/i> leads its readers through a living, thriving community, populated by improved versions of what came before. <i>Planetary<\/i> makes me sad for what might\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve been; <i>Astro City<\/i> makes me appreciate what is.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/li>\n<li>And fianally, Darth Vader <a href=\"http:\/\/www.livescience.com\/culture\/psychology-darth-vader-revealed-100604.html\">may have had psychological issues<\/a>. <i>Noooo<\/i>! [<a href=\"http:\/\/scifiwire.com\" title=\"Sci Fi Wire\">via<\/a>]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RIP, Harvey Pekar. So you&#8217;ve heard about this new Wonder Woman costume, right? It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s as if the people designing her new look didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t want to make a decision about who she is as a hero. And this is the basic problem &#8211; a superhero costume projects an idea, and no one knows what the idea &#8230; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=4123\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[20,157,10],"class_list":["post-4123","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-comics","tag-psychology","tag-various"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4123"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4123"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4123\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}