{"id":41182,"date":"2014-02-24T15:42:34","date_gmt":"2014-02-24T22:42:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/02\/24\/on-bill-mantlo-and-rocket-raccoon.html"},"modified":"2014-02-24T15:42:34","modified_gmt":"2014-02-24T22:42:34","slug":"on-bill-mantlo-and-rocket-raccoon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/02\/24\/on-bill-mantlo-and-rocket-raccoon.html","title":{"rendered":"On Bill Mantlo and Rocket Raccoon"},"content":{"rendered":"
And money and health care and things not being as bad as they might seem but also a worthy call to action.<\/p>\n

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

An update on the creator of Rocket Raccoon.\ufeff<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n

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On Bill Mantlo, Rocket Raccoon and Guardians of the Galaxy \u2014 The Beat<\/a>
\n When the trailer for August’s Guardians of the Galaxy movie hit a week ago\u2014and when the GotG toys were unveiled at Toy Fair last weekend\u2014something that has been pretty clear to diehard comics fans was obvious from the gitgo: GOTGgif12.gif. Rocket Raccoon is going to be huge.\n <\/p>\n

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And money and health care and things not being as bad as they might seem but also a worthy call to action. Reshared post from +Speed Force An update on the creator of Rocket Raccoon.\ufeff On Bill Mantlo, Rocket Raccoon and Guardians of the Galaxy \u2014 The Beat When the trailer for August’s Guardians of … Continue reading “On Bill Mantlo and Rocket Raccoon”<\/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-41182","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":44059,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/08\/01\/if-you-enjoyed-gotg-heres-a-way-you-can-be-a-hero.html","url_meta":{"origin":41182,"position":0},"title":"If you enjoyed GotG, here's a way you can be a hero","author":"***Dave","date":"Fri 1-Aug-14 11:13pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Bill Mantlo, one of Rocket Raccoon's creators, needs our help. 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