{"id":9626,"date":"2006-05-23T15:02:16","date_gmt":"2006-05-23T22:02:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/2006\/05\/23\/good-news-bad-news-good-news-bad-news.html"},"modified":"2006-05-23T15:02:16","modified_gmt":"2006-05-23T22:02:16","slug":"good_news_bad_n","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2006\/05\/23\/good_news_bad_n.html","title":{"rendered":"Good News, Bad News, Good News, Bad News"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"img-shadow-right\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/images\/tick01.gif\" style=\"width: 88px; height: 88px;\" alt=\"\"  \/><\/div>\n<p><strong>Good News<\/strong>:  A <em>The Tick <\/em>animated series DVD set <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2006\/01\/23\/spoooooon.html\" target=\"_blank\">is coming<\/a>!  <em>Spoon!<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Bad News<\/strong>:  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tvshowsondvd.com\/newsitem.cfm?NewsID=5685\" target=\"_blank\">The first collection is not the full first season<\/a>, but a partial &#8220;best of&#8221; compiliation!  The horror!<\/p>\n<p><strong>Good News<\/strong>:  Well, it&#8217;s not <em>really <\/em>a &#8220;best of&#8221; pick-and-choose compilation.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Bad News<\/strong>:  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tvshowsondvd.com\/newsitem.cfm?NewsID=5708\" target=\"_blank\">It&#8217;s not the full season either, but 12 of the 13 episodes<\/a> thereof (the 13th, whichever one that is, being tied up in some sort of legal dispute &#8212; even money whether it&#8217;s a contract issue with a voice artist or some sort of &#8220;satire&#8221; that raised some legal hackles).<\/p>\n<p>Still, 92.3% of a season of The Tick is better than nothing.  Again, I say, <em>Spoon!<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Good News: A The Tick animated series DVD set is coming! Spoon! Bad News: The first collection is not the full first season, but a partial &#8220;best of&#8221; compiliation! 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