{"id":41145,"date":"2014-02-18T11:52:08","date_gmt":"2014-02-18T18:52:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/02\/18\/generations-of-superheroes.html"},"modified":"2014-02-18T11:52:08","modified_gmt":"2014-02-18T18:52:08","slug":"generations-of-superheroes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/02\/18\/generations-of-superheroes.html","title":{"rendered":"Generations of Superheroes"},"content":{"rendered":"
This is not a new sentiment, but I've rarely heard it articulated so well. I'm not sure this is necessarily what I want, but it would be remarkable for a major comics franchise to actually do this. We've seen it, successfully, on a single-creator basis (thinking of Busiek's Astro City), but never in a major comic universe (except, vaguely, in the old DCU and its JSA\/JLA\/Teen Titans triad).<\/p>\n

Reshared post from +Speed Force<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

This is just link-to-controversial-opinions-on-comics day.\ufeff<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n

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I Think Every Superhero You Love Should Be Dead (or, On the Nature of Time)<\/a>
\n This week on the podcast we\u2019re reading Warren Ellis\u2019s Planetary, which is one of my very favorite comic books. I highly recommend it to you if you\u2019ve neve\n <\/p>\n

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This is not a new sentiment, but I've rarely heard it articulated so well. I'm not sure this is necessarily what I want, but it would be remarkable for a major comics franchise to actually do this. We've seen it, successfully, on a single-creator basis (thinking of Busiek's Astro City), but never in a major … Continue reading “Generations of Superheroes”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41145","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":32125,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/01\/10\/rip-comics-buyers-guide.html","url_meta":{"origin":41145,"position":0},"title":"RIP, Comics Buyer's Guide","author":"***Dave","date":"Thu 10-Jan-13 12:30am","format":false,"excerpt":"For a while I was a huge reader of the CBG. 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