{"id":154652,"date":"2021-07-20T23:06:54","date_gmt":"2021-07-21T05:06:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/?p=154652"},"modified":"2021-07-20T23:06:54","modified_gmt":"2021-07-21T05:06:54","slug":"tv-review-invincible-season-1-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2021\/07\/20\/tv-review-invincible-season-1-2021.html","title":{"rendered":"TV Review: <i>Invincible<\/i>, Season 1 (2021)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Yeah, there are <strong>spoilers<\/strong> here. Sorry. TL;DR: Bloody, but <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">good<\/span>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>I was a big follower of Robert Kirkman&#8217;s\u00a0<em>Invincible<\/em> from Day 1 to its conclusion, and I have a complete set of the graphic novels. So I was both looking forward to, and prepared for, the animated series airing on Amazon Prime.<\/p>\n<p>Sort of.<\/p>\n<div class=\"jetpack-video-wrapper\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Invincible \u2013 Official Trailer | Prime Video\" width=\"840\" height=\"473\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/-bfAVpuko5o?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>On one level,\u00a0<em>Invincible<\/em> is the tale of a high school kid who finally inherits the super-powers he expected from his dad, a Superman-type called Omni-Man. The tale is full of teen angst, learning capabilities, trying to mature, dealing with girlfriends and best friends and having to duck out (yet again) to save the world. It&#8217;s conventional in a lot of ways, but well done for all that.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_154658\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-154658\" style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Invincible-high-school.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-154658 size-large\" title=\"Invincible high school\" src=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Invincible-high-school-650x366.jpg\" alt=\"Mark Grayson and his fellow students\" width=\"650\" height=\"366\" srcset=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Invincible-high-school-650x366.jpg 650w, https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Invincible-high-school-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Invincible-high-school-150x84.jpg 150w, https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Invincible-high-school-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Invincible-high-school.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-154658\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">It&#8217;s like Riverdale, only with super-powers<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The other level is a darker story, of nothing being what it seems. The various other heroes we meet are full of egos, short tempers, and bad personalities. The Global Defense Agency, run by Cecil Stedman, is big picture enough that it engages in sketchy behavior to maintain world order. And, after a relatively idyllic first episode of Mark gaining and learning about his powers, training with his dad, and getting both a costume and a code name &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230; his father, Omni-Man, ambushes and kills the Justice League-esque Guardians of the Globe.<\/p>\n<p>And not in a &#8220;ha-ha, secret death gas that quietly and cleanly makes them softly collapse&#8221; kind of way. It&#8217;s a bloody, brutal, flesh-crunching, ichor-spattering, dismembering sort of battle. Superman taking out the Justice League, any way he can. Which Kirkman&#8217;s original comic did, but which has a greater impact in animation than on the still page.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_154659\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-154659\" style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Invincible-Omni-Man-blood.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-154659 size-large\" title=\"Invincible Omni-Man blood\" src=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Invincible-Omni-Man-blood-650x325.png\" alt=\"Invincible - Omni-Man\" width=\"650\" height=\"325\" srcset=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Invincible-Omni-Man-blood-650x325.png 650w, https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Invincible-Omni-Man-blood-300x150.png 300w, https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Invincible-Omni-Man-blood-150x75.png 150w, https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Invincible-Omni-Man-blood.png 740w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-154659\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Omni-Man has a bad day<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>That sets the tone for\u00a0<em>Invincible &#8212;<\/em> a lot of &#8220;normal&#8221; comic book action, but, when violence occurs, a brutality that is hypothetically realistic (what\u00a0<em>would<\/em> it look like if Superman punched someone in the face with all his strength?) but also shocking in its gore factor.<\/p>\n<p>This is a comic book series\u00a0<em>not<\/em> for kids. R-rated, at the very least.<\/p>\n<p>That said, it all works, at least for me. The tension between that juxtaposition, the mystery of <em>why<\/em> Omni-Man killed those super-heroes, and <em>if<\/em>, and <em>how<\/em>, his guilt will be unveiled, and what that will mean for his marriage and to his son, Mark &#8212; that&#8217;s hanging over the season like a sword, and when it finally drops, it is utterly a game-changer, and about has violent as you can imagine a fight between a really pissed-off Superman and an equally angry Superboy could be.<\/p>\n<p>The show all also a rare opportunity for a creator &#8212; Robert Kirkman (of <em>Walking Dead<\/em> fame) &#8212; to collaborate on redoing a major opus of his for a new medium and to clean up and improve his story. Which he actually does. As I got into the series, I went back and reread those early graphic novels. Kirkman maintains all the dramatic beats and characters and challenges, but he largely improves on them, tightens them up, makes them work as a coherent tale. Distractions get trimmed. Core development gets better focus. Time frames are accelerated\/compressed. Some ethnic diversity gets introduced in some key roles (on screen and in the voice work). It&#8217;s overall a better tale in this retelling.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_154660\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-154660\" style=\"width: 602px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Invincible-Amber.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-154660 size-full\" title=\"Invincible Amber\" src=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Invincible-Amber.png\" alt=\"Invincible - Amber\" width=\"602\" height=\"378\" srcset=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Invincible-Amber.png 602w, https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Invincible-Amber-300x188.png 300w, https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Invincible-Amber-150x94.png 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-154660\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mark&#8217;s sometimes-girlfriend Amber gets recast to add diversity. She&#8217;s also rewritten as a better, stronger character.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><em>Invincible\u00a0<\/em>is not for everyone. My sainted wife dealt with the series gamely until the final installment. Graphic super-hero violence is on display &#8212; not gratuitously, nor incessantly, but, like real-world violence (and this is sort of the point) slamming onto the scene just when you least expect it. Kirkman wants to address what it means when someone throws a bus full of people, or demolishes a building, or what happens when an alien invasion lands downtown and those aren&#8217;t convenient &#8220;disintegrators&#8221; they&#8217;re wielding.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_154661\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-154661\" style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Invincible-trying-to-save-people.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-154661\" title=\"Invincible trying to save people\" src=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Invincible-trying-to-save-people-650x366.jpg\" alt=\"Invincible trying to save people\" width=\"650\" height=\"366\" srcset=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Invincible-trying-to-save-people-650x366.jpg 650w, https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Invincible-trying-to-save-people-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Invincible-trying-to-save-people-150x84.jpg 150w, https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Invincible-trying-to-save-people-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Invincible-trying-to-save-people-1200x675.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Invincible-trying-to-save-people.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-154661\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">And not all stories have happy endings.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>But he also wants to give us coming of age tales, teens with power figuring out what those abilities mean, how they should or shouldn&#8217;t use them, and why, and what sort of codes of morality they&#8217;re going to adopt as they get faced with life-and-death decisions. Mark, as Invincible, is the focus here, but there&#8217;s a large cast, and everyone has moral and ethical dilemmas they have to face.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_154654\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-154654\" style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Invincible-cast.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-154654\" title=\"Invincible cast\" src=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Invincible-cast-650x227.png\" alt=\"Invincible cast\" width=\"650\" height=\"227\" srcset=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Invincible-cast-650x227.png 650w, https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Invincible-cast-300x105.png 300w, https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Invincible-cast-150x52.png 150w, https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Invincible-cast-768x268.png 768w, https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Invincible-cast.png 1183w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-154654\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Some of the (large) cast of Invincible. Kirkman does great names.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The animation, from Korea, is top-notch, and very much in line with the original artwork by Ryan Ottley and Cory Walker. The voice talent is good (even if some of the casting doesn&#8217;t altogether work for me), and the story fully engaged me, even knowing where things were leading.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_154655\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-154655\" style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Invincible-and-Atom-Eve-original.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-154655\" title=\"Invincible and Atom Eve original\" src=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Invincible-and-Atom-Eve-original-650x374.jpg\" alt=\"Invincible comic art\" width=\"650\" height=\"374\" srcset=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Invincible-and-Atom-Eve-original-650x374.jpg 650w, https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Invincible-and-Atom-Eve-original-300x173.jpg 300w, https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Invincible-and-Atom-Eve-original-150x86.jpg 150w, https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Invincible-and-Atom-Eve-original-768x442.jpg 768w, https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Invincible-and-Atom-Eve-original-1536x883.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Invincible-and-Atom-Eve-original-1200x690.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Invincible-and-Atom-Eve-original.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-154655\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Invincible and Atom Eve, comic art<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_154656\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-154656\" style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Invincible-and-Atom-Eve-animated.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-154656\" title=\"Invincible and Atom Eve animated\" src=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Invincible-and-Atom-Eve-animated-650x340.jpg\" alt=\"Invincible and Atom Eve animated\" width=\"650\" height=\"340\" srcset=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Invincible-and-Atom-Eve-animated-650x340.jpg 650w, https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Invincible-and-Atom-Eve-animated-300x157.jpg 300w, https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Invincible-and-Atom-Eve-animated-150x79.jpg 150w, https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Invincible-and-Atom-Eve-animated-768x402.jpg 768w, https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Invincible-and-Atom-Eve-animated.jpg 1050w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-154656\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Invincible and Atom Eve, animated. They did a great job with the clean style from the comics (except that Eve&#8217;s chest logo usually looked like it was a Venus symbol with an X on it, not with an electron cloud).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Looking forward to Season 2. If you have Amazon Prime, and don&#8217;t mind some impactful (but meaningful) gore, it&#8217;s highly recommended.\u00a0 Rating:<a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/stars45-5.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-21806 alignnone\" title=\"4.5 of 5 stars - &quot;I really, really liked it&quot;\" src=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/stars45-5.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"83\" height=\"15\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_154657\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-154657\" style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Invincible.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-154657 size-large\" title=\"Invincible\" src=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Invincible-650x433.jpg\" alt=\"Invincible\" width=\"650\" height=\"433\" srcset=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Invincible-650x433.jpg 650w, https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Invincible-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Invincible-150x100.jpg 150w, https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Invincible-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Invincible-1536x1023.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Invincible-2048x1364.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Invincible-1200x800.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-154657\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">For all the pain and angst, the joy Mark has while flying is always a great thing to see.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><em>Do you want to know more?<\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt6741278\/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1\">Invincible (TV Series 2021\u2013 ) &#8211; IMDb<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Invincible_(TV_series)\">Invincible (TV series) &#8211; Wikipedia<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/hiddenremote.com\/2021\/03\/30\/rick-and-morty-season-5-release-date\/\">Robert Kirkman talks Invincible adaptation, importance of violence in series<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This bloody take on four-color teen heroes is even better, and bloodier, on-screen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":154657,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"none","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[45,11,40],"tags":[2184],"class_list":["post-154652","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-media-cartoons","category-media-comics","category-media-tv","tag-invincible"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Invincible.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":15350,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2009\/07\/25\/bt09-i-is-for-indefatigable-blogathon.html","url_meta":{"origin":154652,"position":0},"title":"BT09 &#8211; I is for Indefatigable (#Blogathon)","author":"***Dave","date":"Sat 25-Jul-09 3:26pm","format":false,"excerpt":"\u00a0 Invincible, vol. 8, \"My Favorite Martian\"\u00a0(Image) [collects #36-41] Invincible, vol. 9, \"Out of This World\"\u00a0(Image) [collects #42-47] Invincible, vol. 10, \"Who's the Boss?\"\u00a0(Image) [collects #48-53] w. Robert Kirkman; a.\u00a0Ryan Ottley\u00a0 Writing New reader? Art Non-comics reader? Invincible remains a steady and powerful performer. While on one level Kirkman is\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Blogathon&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Blogathon","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/blogathon"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/images\/stars5.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":7827,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2005\/08\/06\/bt05_a_blogatho.html","url_meta":{"origin":154652,"position":1},"title":"BT05 &#8211; A Blogathonner Walks Among Us!","author":"***Dave","date":"Sat 6-Aug-05 10:27pm","format":false,"excerpt":"I'm doing fine on material, but I'm running out of things to say \"above the fold\" like this. I do thank those of you who've piped up to comment --...","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Blogathon&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Blogathon","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/blogathon"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":6908,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2004\/12\/03\/comic_relief_8.html","url_meta":{"origin":154652,"position":2},"title":"Comic relief","author":"***Dave","date":"Fri 3-Dec-04 9:50pm","format":false,"excerpt":"A few graphic novels that have been stacking up ... and up to forty words about them. 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