{"id":44904,"date":"2014-09-04T11:26:48","date_gmt":"2014-09-04T17:26:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/09\/04\/the-new-secret-six.html"},"modified":"2014-09-15T14:36:26","modified_gmt":"2014-09-15T20:36:26","slug":"the-new-secret-six","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/09\/04\/the-new-secret-six.html","title":{"rendered":"The New &quot;Secret Six&quot;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Frankly, I would gravely mistrust DC with a reboot of the pre-New 52 dark classic series, <i>Secret Six.<\/i> But given Gail Simone being at the helm of both, I&#39;m definitely on board. Here&#39;s hoping she gets the editorial support to make it something new and awesome.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"sm2wp\"><p>\n<a href='http:\/\/herocomplex.latimes.com\/comics\/gail-simone-lets-catman-loose-in-a-fresh-secret-six-in-dcs-new-52\/#\/0'><br \/>\n<img style='display:block;' src='https:\/\/lh5.googleusercontent.com\/proxy\/L3R3gpinWo6JyZnRBTVaL4zBm4-ZH1E7DAcfzQV02w7UI68ZMvSOzODrkQqeq3B-rXqqtLViAs6MRU5t8yWLf8On9nqe9aSKQVPA9ISWLal_8ljbPryhsQUoUPfOJCwOsFo=w506-h303' border='0' \/><br \/>\nGail Simone lets Catman loose in a fresh &#8216;Secret Six&#8217; in DC&#8217;s New 52<br \/>\n<\/a><br \/>\nNow the secret can be revealed: Gail Simone is relaunching &ldquo;Secret Six&rdquo; in the New 52, and at its core is a mystery with an answer that she said all DC readers will want to know.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><font size=\"2\"><a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/101083456815352083930\/posts\/GtwcSnjEvtB'>View on Google+<\/a><\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Frankly, I would gravely mistrust DC with a reboot of the pre-New 52 dark classic series, Secret Six. But given Gail Simone being at the helm of both, I&#39;m definitely on board. Here&#39;s hoping she gets the editorial support to make it something new and awesome. Gail Simone lets Catman loose in a fresh &#8216;Secret &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/09\/04\/the-new-secret-six.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The New &quot;Secret Six&quot;&#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_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":[106,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44904","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-media-comics"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":11594,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2007\/07\/29\/bt07_b_comics.html","url_meta":{"origin":44904,"position":0},"title":"BT07 &#8211; B Comics","author":"***Dave","date":"Sun 29-Jul-07 12:57am","format":false,"excerpt":"Birds of Prey #108 (DC) w. 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