{"id":23610,"date":"2011-11-10T20:16:45","date_gmt":"2011-11-11T03:16:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2011\/11\/10\/comics-have-issues.html"},"modified":"2011-11-10T21:24:17","modified_gmt":"2011-11-11T04:24:17","slug":"comics-have-issues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2011\/11\/10\/comics-have-issues.html","title":{"rendered":"Comics have issues"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#39;m not sure what the point of this article is, since I don&#39;t know of anyone who doesn&#39;t think that there aren&#39;t single issues of various comic book titles that are exemplary and memorable.<\/p>\n<p>But it&#39;s a good list (of the ones I recognize) of some pretty spiffy one-off stories, as well as recommendations in the comments, too.<\/p>\n<p>Done-in-one issues are, in fact, something special.  But it&#39;s important to also realize that while they may be one-offs in terms of the explicit storyline, but gain their significance in terms of what&#39;s going on in the stories around them (and the context of the character over some time). #ddtb<\/p>\n<p style='clear:both;'>\n<p style='margin-bottom:5px;'><strong>Embedded Link<\/strong><\/p>\n<div style='height:120px;width:120px;overflow:hidden;float:left;margin-top:0px;padding-top:0px;margin-right:10px;vertical-align:top;text-align:center;clear:both;'>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img style='max-width:none;' src='http:\/\/images0-focus-opensocial.googleusercontent.com\/gadgets\/proxy?container=focus&#038;gadget=a&#038;resize_h=100&#038;url=http%3A%2F%2Fcache.gawkerassets.com%2Fassets%2Fimages%2F8%2F2011%2F11%2Fmedium_db1eae98d67a1e3d9e825f280b7795b1.jpg' border='0' \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/io9.com\/5857695\/10-issues-of-ongoing-comics-that-prove-single-issues-can-be-great'>10 Issues of Ongoing Comics that Prove Single Issues Can Be Great<\/a><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tIt&#39;s new comics day, and for many of us that means a trip to our local comic store to pick up those amazing pamphlets filled with graphic storytelling.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p style='clear:both;'>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#39;m not sure what the point of this article is, since I don&#39;t know of anyone who doesn&#39;t think that there aren&#39;t single issues of various comic book titles that are exemplary and memorable. But it&#39;s a good list (of the ones I recognize) of some pretty spiffy one-off stories, as well as recommendations in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2011\/11\/10\/comics-have-issues.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Comics have issues&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_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":[106,11],"tags":[107],"class_list":["post-23610","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-media-comics","tag-ddtb"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":26553,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/02\/21\/comics-cheesecake-men-and-women.html","url_meta":{"origin":23610,"position":0},"title":"Comics, cheesecake, men, and women","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 21-Feb-12 10:50am","format":false,"excerpt":"Yes, I've posted on this a fair amount of late, but this particular article does an excellent job of addressing, in a variety of ways, the \"Oh, comic books are equally discriminatory in how they treat men and women\" response to sexism in comics. #ddtb Embedded Link She Has No\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":25043,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/01\/03\/comic-book-covers-from-2011.html","url_meta":{"origin":23610,"position":1},"title":"Comic Book Covers from 2011","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 3-Jan-12 6:53pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Some great choices here from one of my favorite comics blogs. #ddtb Embedded Link DC Women Kicking Ass - The 10 best DC Comics covers of 2011 with female characters The 10 best DC Comics covers of 2011 with female characters Researching this post was like riding a rollercoaster. 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