{"id":135388,"date":"2017-11-20T08:46:33","date_gmt":"2017-11-20T15:46:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/?p=135388"},"modified":"2017-11-20T17:04:22","modified_gmt":"2017-11-21T00:04:22","slug":"not-necessarily-good-judge-comic-book-related-pop-culture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2017\/11\/20\/not-necessarily-good-judge-comic-book-related-pop-culture.html","title":{"rendered":"Why I am not necessarily a good judge of comic book-related pop culture"},"content":{"rendered":"

Because I was not in the least bit confused by the Justice League<\/i> post-credit cameo that this article is all about. Indeed, that was one of the least-confusing parts of the movie.<\/p>\n

But, then, I’m probably part of the “certain geek circles” that the author snarks at. And, also, I’ve been buying and reading comics since that character’s creation date (indeed, I have the comic it happened in), so, again, no surprises. Also, I watch TV super-hero stuff, so also no surprises from that<\/i> vector.<\/p>\n

In fact, the author’s suggestion that the character was confused for a different character (color schemes, people!) was, in fact, confusing to me.<\/p>\n

I have to assume the author was trolling a bit.<\/p>\n

(The only spoiler in the article is the identity of one of the characters in the post credit scene at the end of Justice League.<\/i> So … avoid it if that’s at all important to you.)<\/p>\n


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Because I was not in the least bit confused by the Justice League post-credit cameo that this article is all about. Indeed, that was one of the least-confusing parts of the movie. But, then, I’m probably part of the “certain geek circles” that the author snarks at. 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