{"id":31986,"date":"2012-12-31T12:50:47","date_gmt":"2012-12-31T19:50:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/12\/31\/comic-books-and-the-illusion-of-change.html"},"modified":"2012-12-31T12:50:47","modified_gmt":"2012-12-31T19:50:47","slug":"comic-books-and-the-illusion-of-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/12\/31\/comic-books-and-the-illusion-of-change.html","title":{"rendered":"Comic Books and the Illusion of Change"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An essay of Peter David&#39;s from 1998 &#8212; particularly interesting when one considers what&#39;s happened in the 14 years since to the characters he talks about &#8212; Supergirl, the Hulk, and most especially Spider-Man and the current Peter Parker kerfuffle &#8212; as well as DC&#39;s New 52 initiative.<\/p>\n<p style='clear:both;'>\n<p style='margin-bottom:5px;'><strong>Embedded Link<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/www.peterdavid.net\/2012\/12\/24\/the-illusion-of-change\/'>The Illusion of Change<\/a><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tOriginally published July 3, 1998, in Comics Buyer\u2019s Guide #1285 &#8220;The illusion of change.&#8221; That&#8217;s what Stan Lee always said was the secret to Marvel storytelling. Make it seem as if things w&#8230;\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p style='clear:both;'> <strong>Google+:<\/strong> <a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/101083456815352083930\/posts\/hiQZg53ruNh' target='_new'>View post on Google+<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An essay of Peter David&#39;s from 1998 &#8212; particularly interesting when one considers what&#39;s happened in the 14 years since to the characters he talks about &#8212; Supergirl, the Hulk, and most especially Spider-Man and the current Peter Parker kerfuffle &#8212; as well as DC&#39;s New 52 initiative. Embedded Link The Illusion of Change Originally &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/12\/31\/comic-books-and-the-illusion-of-change.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Comic Books and the Illusion of Change&#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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31986","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":49206,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/01\/09\/this-illusion-is-driving-me-nuts.html","url_meta":{"origin":31986,"position":0},"title":"This illusion is driving me nuts","author":"***Dave","date":"Fri 9-Jan-15 1:54am","format":false,"excerpt":"I know the lines are all parallel. 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