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I plan on rereading it again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Down the Mysterly River A new book by Bill Willingham, best known (to me at least) as the comic book writer (and sometime-artist) of Elementals, Pantheon, and the, ah, mature&#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":[36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-691","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media-books"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":24240,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2011\/12\/05\/sometimes-a-story-about-a-cigar-is-just-a-story-about-a-cigar.html","url_meta":{"origin":691,"position":0},"title":"Sometimes a story about a cigar is just a story about a cigar","author":"***Dave","date":"Mon 5-Dec-11 6:12am","format":false,"excerpt":"Bill Willingham has written a cogent and classy faux Q&A about the fan movement against \"Once Upon a Time\" (the TV show) as a rip-off of \"Fables\" -- and in so doing talks a fair amount about the stuff dreams are made of. #ddtb Embedded Link Bill Willingham on \"Fables\"\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;~PlusPosts&quot;","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":11599,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2007\/07\/28\/bt07_if_i_could_create_a.html","url_meta":{"origin":691,"position":1},"title":"BT07 &#8211; If I could create a comic &#8230;","author":"***Dave","date":"Sat 28-Jul-07 10:59pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Margie asks: \u00a0If you could create a comic what would it be? 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