{"id":5830,"date":"2004-07-13T10:25:48","date_gmt":"2004-07-13T17:25:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/2004\/07\/13\/marvel-can-still-blow-a-few.html"},"modified":"2004-07-13T10:25:48","modified_gmt":"2004-07-13T17:25:48","slug":"marvel_can_stil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2004\/07\/13\/marvel_can_stil.html","title":{"rendered":"Marvel can still blow a few"},"content":{"rendered":"

While everyone’s cheering for Spidey<\/em>, looking forward to the next X-Men<\/em>, and even willing to call it a draw on Daredevil <\/em>and Hulk<\/em>, flicks like Punisher show that Marvel’s movies aren’t all successful.<\/p>\n

And it looks seriously like Man-Thing<\/em><\/a> is going to join that latter, un<\/em>illustrious company.<\/a><\/p>\n

Well, an early screening was recently held, and the word was not good. Said one attendee, “This was the kind of Man-Thing you want to sic Lorena Bobbit at.”<\/p>\n

Not that MT is Marvel’s most faboo property to begin with, mind you, aside from its ability to generate jokes like that. Especially when Giant-Sized<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

While everyone’s cheering for Spidey, looking forward to the next X-Men, and even willing to call it a draw on Daredevil and Hulk, flicks like Punisher show that Marvel’s movies…<\/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":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[11,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5830","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media-comics","category-media"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":130655,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/05\/14\/force-ranking-the-mcu-heroes.html","url_meta":{"origin":5830,"position":0},"title":"Force-Ranking the MCU Heroes","author":"***Dave","date":"Sat 14-May-16 12:43am","format":false,"excerpt":"Here's an attempt by \/Film to force-rank the heroes of the Marvel Cinematic Universe [(which apparently excludes Marvel's Agents of SHIELD, though not the Netflix series or Agent Carter). 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