{"id":69,"date":"2003-07-02T06:58:41","date_gmt":"2003-07-02T11:58:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/?p=69"},"modified":"2003-07-02T06:58:41","modified_gmt":"2003-07-02T11:58:41","slug":"1602","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2003\/07\/02\/1602.html","title":{"rendered":"1602"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>More official word on Gaiman&#8217;s new Marvel project, <a title=\"Comic Book Resources - CBR News - The Comic Wire\" href=\"http:\/\/www.comicbookresources.com\/news\/newsitem.cgi?id=2406\"><i>1602<\/i><\/a>, including this Gaiman quote:<\/p>\n<p class=\"block\">1602 is an 8-issue mini, set in a Marvel Universe in which, for reasons which will take a while to uncover, the whole Marvel Universe is starting to occur 500 years early: Sir Nicholas Fury is head of the Queen&#8217;s Intelligence, Dr Stephen Strange is her court physician (and magician), the Inquisition is torturing &#8220;witchbreed&#8221;, many of whom have taken sanctuary in England under the wing of Carlos Javier, and now a mysterious treasure &#8212; which may be a weapon of some kind &#8212; is being sent from Jerusalem to England by the last of the Templars. Something that may save the world, or destroy it, which has already attracted the attention of such people as Count Otto Von Doom (known as &#8220;The Handsome&#8221;)&#8230; <br \/>It&#8217;s a race against time in a world in which time is the enemy &#8212; <br \/>\nIt&#8217;s not a What If or an Elseworlds. And it&#8217;s really fun&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Well, if it weren&#8217;t Gaiman, I&#8217;d assume that, yes, it is an Elseworlds (ho-hum), probably interesting, but maybe I&#8217;ll wait for the trade paperback &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>But given Gaiman&#8217;s record, he could make a comic book about the New York phone book interesting, so I&#8217;ll go along with him on the hackneyed (but potential-filled) premise.<\/p>\n<p><small>(via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bears-cave.com\/archive\/2003_06.html#3162\">Doyce<\/a>)<\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More official word on Gaiman&#8217;s new Marvel project, 1602, including this Gaiman quote: 1602 is an 8-issue mini, set in a Marvel Universe in which, for reasons which will take&#8230;<\/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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-69","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media-comics"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":12457,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2008\/04\/28\/comics_and_the_movies.html","url_meta":{"origin":69,"position":0},"title":"Comics and the movies","author":"***Dave","date":"Mon 28-Apr-08 1:29pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Movies: Stop Adapting The Wrong Comics\u00a0 Some suggested comics to adapt. 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