{"id":6717,"date":"2004-07-29T06:24:35","date_gmt":"2004-07-29T13:24:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/2004\/07\/29\/comic-con-summer-sundance.html"},"modified":"2004-07-29T06:24:35","modified_gmt":"2004-07-29T13:24:35","slug":"comic_con_summe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2004\/07\/29\/comic_con_summe.html","title":{"rendered":"Comic-Con — Summer Sundance"},"content":{"rendered":"

A review by Heidi Macdonald of the San Diego Comic-Con and how it’s been conquered by Hollywood<\/a> — not to mention the question of whether that’s a good thing or a bad thing. (Regardless, it does appear to be a “thing” we’ll have to live with, and better a “movie-con” with comic books than a comic book con without movies.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A review by Heidi Macdonald of the San Diego Comic-Con and how it’s been conquered by Hollywood — not to mention the question of whether that’s a good thing or…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_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":[11,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6717","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media-comics","category-media-moguls"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":51131,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/05\/15\/the-convergence-bump-for-dc-comics.html","url_meta":{"origin":6717,"position":0},"title":"The Convergence bump for DC Comics","author":"***Dave","date":"Fri 15-May-15 3:59pm","format":false,"excerpt":"I've read more DC Comics issues the past few months than I have the previous year. 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