{"id":5295,"date":"2004-04-10T13:55:49","date_gmt":"2004-04-10T20:55:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/2004\/04\/10\/way-of-the-rats.html"},"modified":"2004-04-10T13:55:49","modified_gmt":"2004-04-10T20:55:49","slug":"way_of_the_rats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2004\/04\/10\/way_of_the_rats.html","title":{"rendered":"Way of the &#8230; Rats"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/1931484511\/davedoesthebl-20\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.amazon.com\/images\/P\/1931484511.01.MZZZZZZZ.jpg\" class=\"left\" border=0 \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0785111042\/davedoesthebl-20\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.amazon.com\/images\/P\/0785111042.01.MZZZZZZZ.jpg\" class=\"right\" border=0 \/><\/a>Per <i>Comics Buyer&#8217;s Guide <\/i>#1588, <i>Way of the Rat <\/i>and <i>Captain Marvel <\/i>have both been cancelled.  <\/p>\n<p>The former has never quite lived up to the jollity of the first story arc, but was still jolly fun (I&#8217;ll miss Po-Po, the sarcastic talking monkey).  The latter wasn&#8217;t everyone&#8217;s cuppa, but was at least as entertaining an examination of Absolute Power and Madness as any other average book on the stands out there.  I&#8217;ll miss both of them from my weekly pull list.<\/p>\n<p>But so it goes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Per Comics Buyer&#8217;s Guide #1588, Way of the Rat and Captain Marvel have both been cancelled. 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