{"id":1780,"date":"2002-04-30T13:56:42","date_gmt":"2002-04-30T18:56:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/?p=1780"},"modified":"2002-04-30T13:56:42","modified_gmt":"2002-04-30T18:56:42","slug":"thor_and_spidey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2002\/04\/30\/thor_and_spidey.html","title":{"rendered":"Thor and Spidey"},"content":{"rendered":"

James Lileks has some nice commentary (now there’s a shock) on comic books in his life<\/a>. While he’s wrong about Thor (the whole “Ye gods, he’s a god!” thing has actually been touched on now and again), and I disagree with this disdain for organic webshooters, his comments on the secret world of comics readers — and on the marvel that is the book Marvels <\/i>— are spot on.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

James Lileks has some nice commentary (now there’s a shock) on comic books in his life. While he’s wrong about Thor (the whole “Ye gods, he’s a god!” thing has…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","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":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1780","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media-comics"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":22853,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2011\/09\/28\/movie-review-thor-2011.html","url_meta":{"origin":1780,"position":0},"title":"Movie Review: “Thor” (2011)","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 28-Sep-11 9:52pm","format":false,"excerpt":"With Margie out of town on business, we've been having Father\/Daughter Movie Nights. \u00a0Which let us get a bit caught up with some of this year's super-hero flicks. 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