{"id":9293,"date":"2006-07-29T19:45:29","date_gmt":"2006-07-30T02:45:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/2006\/07\/29\/bt06-komix-for-kitten.html"},"modified":"2006-07-29T19:45:29","modified_gmt":"2006-07-30T02:45:29","slug":"bt06_komix_for","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2006\/07\/29\/bt06_komix_for.html","title":{"rendered":"BT06 &#8211; Komix for Kitten"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I get comics for Katherine pretty regularly &#8212; two or three titles a month.&nbsp; She enjoys looking at the pictures and reading them (after a fashion), and there are usually several in her bed. So, as part of her bed time, I asked her about her favorites.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Powerpuff Girls <\/em>#37<\/strong> (DC)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<u>What happens in this one?<\/u>&nbsp; The criminals, the Gangrene Gang, are teaming up, and Mojo Jojo and the Powerpuff Girls are trying to win the Key and see who is rockingest.<\/li>\n<li>\n<u>Why do you like it?<\/u>&nbsp; They&#8217;re all trying and win the Key to the City, and that&#8217;s so funny.&nbsp; The Powerpuff Girls go in and beat Mojo Jojo and then it&#8217;s their turn, and they win the Key to the City.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong><em>Justice League Unlimited<\/em> #6<\/strong> (DC)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<u>What happens in this one?<\/u>&nbsp; The Justice League people don&#8217;t know who they&#8217;re fighting, and they&#8217;re actually fighting these guys [points].<\/li>\n<li>\n<u>Why do you like it?<\/u>&nbsp; The red guys don&#8217;t win, but it looks like they&#8217;re going to.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong><em>Loony Tunes <\/em>#??<\/strong> (DC)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<u>What happens in this one?<\/u>&nbsp; The cops are trying to get these bad guys.<\/li>\n<li>\n<u>Why do you like it?<\/u>&nbsp; It&#8217;s so funny.&nbsp; I like the looks.&nbsp; I like this cartoon a lot.&nbsp; It&#8217;s an old comic and it&#8217;s still funny,<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>It&#8217;s worth noting that nearly all the comics she has are DC ones.&nbsp; They&#8217;ve done a much better job of pitching comics to kids, helped by WB&#8217;s ownership of both DC and Cartoon Network and the Warner cartoon stable &#8212; but they do super-hero stuff (Teen Titans, JLU, Batman, Superman) which Marvel simply doesn&#8217;t.&nbsp; Pity, that.<\/p>\n<p><i>(listening to: Guttler, Ludwig, &#8220;Sleepers, Wake, the Voice Is Calling&#8221; (Krebs) from <\/i>A Festive Christmas)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I get comics for Katherine pretty regularly &#8212; two or three titles a month.&nbsp; She enjoys looking at the pictures and reading them (after a fashion), and there are usually&#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":[13,11,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9293","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogathon","category-media-comics","category-parenting"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":40094,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/12\/16\/powerpuff-save-the-day.html","url_meta":{"origin":9293,"position":0},"title":"Powerpuff save the day!","author":"***Dave","date":"Mon 16-Dec-13 1:44pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Very cool!Reshared post from +The Mary SueThe girls are back in Townsville.\ufeff The Powerpuff Girls Return to Television January 20th Things have been pretty quiet in Townsville since 2005 when The Powerpuff Girls went off the air, or at least I assume so. After all, Blossom, Buttercup, and Bubbles would\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":41169,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/02\/23\/power-puff-save-the-day.html","url_meta":{"origin":9293,"position":1},"title":"Power-Puff Save the Day","author":"***Dave","date":"Sun 23-Feb-14 9:12pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Okay, so on the one hand I'm not comfortable with sexualizing little kids, or dragging childhood memories into adulthood.On the other hand, I'd call these adultified Powerpuff Girls strong, bold, independent young women who would knock your disrespectful block off faster than you could say \"Mojo Jojo\".(via\u00a0http:\/\/geektyrant.com\/news\/powerpuff-girls-like-youve-never-seen-them-before)\ufeff View this post\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":43475,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/07\/10\/the-gops-war-on-the-powerpuff-girls.html","url_meta":{"origin":9293,"position":2},"title":"The GOP&#39;s War on the Powerpuff Girls","author":"***Dave","date":"Thu 10-Jul-14 5:30pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Not that they're criticizing them -- they're damaging the brand by having them be the headline graphic for the John Boehner's House GOP web page about how the GOP really loves women and wants them to work more hours and burning more gasoline (or something like that).If I were Cartoon\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":4641,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2003\/07\/26\/bt03_comics_the.html","url_meta":{"origin":9293,"position":3},"title":"BT03 &#8211; Comics, the Next Generation","author":"***Dave","date":"Sat 26-Jul-03 9:56pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Margie dragged me off to the shower before she went to bed, so my next part will be delayed. 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