{"id":132649,"date":"2017-01-25T22:44:00","date_gmt":"2017-01-26T05:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2017\/01\/25\/literature-even-comic-books-mean-something-or-else-they-mean-nothing.html"},"modified":"2017-01-25T22:44:00","modified_gmt":"2017-01-26T05:44:00","slug":"literature-even-comic-books-mean-something-or-else-they-mean-nothing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2017\/01\/25\/literature-even-comic-books-mean-something-or-else-they-mean-nothing.html","title":{"rendered":"Literature (even comic books) mean something, or else they mean nothing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Stan Lee may be a self-aggrandizing huckster who parlayed some great collaborative ideas into a media empire that he took credit for &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230; but The Man speak sooth.  Folk who want comic books to be simple escapist fare (and God knows I enjoy escapism and comic books) ignore that even what what one chooses to escape to carries a message and a meaning. For all that people might laugh at comics, or rail at writers being too ideological (in any direction), the truth is that without a bit of spice for the brain, all you are left with is a bland sandwich.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"sm2wpreshared\">Originally shared by <a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/101083456815352083930'>+Moss Drake<\/a>:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&quot;None of us lives in a vacuum&quot; &#8212; Stan the man Lee<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div style='text-align:center'><a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/photos\/100511491322054142276\/albums\/6378818334433098593\/6378818336143310754'><img src='https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/-miu1T79cb4k\/WIYdevSR_6I\/AAAAAAAAsHw\/PjStpiPtcYkEHV9OMc48rNB7Q19Pxzi7ACJoC\/104fca54-df43-4803-842e-b04259aecc65?imgmax=660' style='max-width:650px;' \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div style='text-align:center'>\n<a href='' style='width:50px;height:50px;display:inline-block;background-size:cover;background-image:url();'><\/a>\u00a0\n<\/div>\n<p><span style='font-size:small;'><a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/+DaveHill47\/posts\/XG4SgUms1TE'>View on Google+<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stan Lee may be a self-aggrandizing huckster who parlayed some great collaborative ideas into a media empire that he took credit for &#8230; &#8230; but The Man speak sooth. Folk who want comic books to be simple escapist fare (and God knows I enjoy escapism and comic books) ignore that even what what one chooses &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2017\/01\/25\/literature-even-comic-books-mean-something-or-else-they-mean-nothing.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Literature (even comic books) mean something, or else they mean nothing&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":132650,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-132649","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-plusposts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/104fca54-df43-4803-842e-b04259aecc65imgmax=660.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":10687,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2006\/11\/18\/galactus_is_coming.html","url_meta":{"origin":132649,"position":0},"title":"Galactus is Coming!","author":"***Dave","date":"Sat 18-Nov-06 9:08pm","format":false,"excerpt":"A collaboration between Stan Lee and Jack Chick. (Well, not really, but ...) (via DOF)...","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Comics &amp; Comic Books&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Comics &amp; Comic Books","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/media\/media-comics"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/images\/reed.gif?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":31986,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/12\/31\/comic-books-and-the-illusion-of-change.html","url_meta":{"origin":132649,"position":1},"title":"Comic Books and the Illusion of Change","author":"***Dave","date":"Mon 31-Dec-12 12:50pm","format":false,"excerpt":"An essay of Peter David's from 1998 -- particularly interesting when one considers what's happened in the 14 years since to the characters he talks about -- Supergirl, the Hulk, and most especially Spider-Man and the current Peter Parker kerfuffle -- as well as DC's New 52 initiative. Embedded Link\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;~PlusPosts&quot;","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":7671,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2005\/01\/19\/who_da_man_stan.html","url_meta":{"origin":132649,"position":2},"title":"Who da Man?  Stan da Man!","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 19-Jan-05 2:56pm","format":false,"excerpt":"A federal court has ruled in favor of Stan \"the Man\" Lee's suit against Marvel, and has ordered them to pay him Many, Many Dollars (also covered here). A federal...","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Comics &amp; Comic Books&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Comics &amp; Comic Books","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/media\/media-comics"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":10160,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2006\/08\/22\/who_wants_to_be.html","url_meta":{"origin":132649,"position":3},"title":"Who Wants to be a Superhero?","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 22-Aug-06 1:47pm","format":false,"excerpt":"The answer being, \"Nobody, if they have to put up with this dreck.\" I've watched this show for the past couple of weeks -- I missed the first episode...","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Comics &amp; Comic Books&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Comics &amp; Comic Books","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/media\/media-comics"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/images\/who-superhero.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":17925,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2010\/07\/22\/stan-sdcc.html","url_meta":{"origin":132649,"position":4},"title":"Stan (#SDCC)","author":"***Dave","date":"Thu 22-Jul-10 11:25pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Stan Sakai, Mary, and Margie. Picked up one of the nicest art collection books at the Con.","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Comics &amp; Comic Books&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Comics &amp; Comic Books","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/media\/media-comics"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":33031,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/04\/03\/a-comicssfmovie-trio-you-might-not-know-go-together.html","url_meta":{"origin":132649,"position":5},"title":"A comics\/SF\/movie trio you might not know go together","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 3-Apr-13 8:05am","format":false,"excerpt":"Jack Kirby. Roger Zelazny. Ben Affleck. Head 'Spload time ...I could have sworn I posted about this when some stories came out, but I can't find it, so I'm re-posting. \u00a0In the 2012 film Argo (which Affleck directed), the CIA create a fake film project, complete with storyboards and promotional\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;~PlusPosts&quot;","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132649","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=132649"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132649\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/132650"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=132649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=132649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=132649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}