{"id":8310,"date":"2005-12-19T15:18:37","date_gmt":"2005-12-19T22:18:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/2005\/12\/19\/the-triumph-of-evil.html"},"modified":"2005-12-19T15:18:37","modified_gmt":"2005-12-19T22:18:37","slug":"the_triumph_of","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2005\/12\/19\/the_triumph_of.html","title":{"rendered":"The triumph of evil"},"content":{"rendered":"

An interesting collection of the Top Ten Villainous Moments in Comics<\/a>, “the ten most memorable moments in villainy” that had “the greatest impact on the stories, the characters and us as readers.”<\/p>\n

Not sure that I could come up with a better list. Numbers 10 and 9 are relatively small potatoes, but the rest are pretty significant. I’d have probably put the destruction of Coast City in there, myself, but I can see why they’ve subsumed that into the Death of Superman storyline.<\/p>\n

(Warning<\/strong>: Needless to say, there are honking spoilers in this, including one at the top of the second page that had me blinking, akin to actually explaining what Rosebud is, or what’s going on at the Bates Motel — sure, everyone who wants to know should know by now, but, still, one just doesn’t talk <\/em>about some things!)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

An interesting collection of the Top Ten Villainous Moments in Comics, “the ten most memorable moments in villainy” that had “the greatest impact on the stories, the characters and us…<\/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-8310","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":50220,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/04\/29\/creators-creations-and-comics.html","url_meta":{"origin":8310,"position":0},"title":"Creators, Creations, and Comics","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 29-Apr-15 5:49pm","format":false,"excerpt":"I keep understanding more and more why more and more comics creators are working on indie comics, or for more consortium-like publishers like Image. 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