{"id":1064,"date":"2004-04-14T16:28:48","date_gmt":"2004-04-14T21:28:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/?p=1064"},"modified":"2009-04-05T16:31:01","modified_gmt":"2009-04-05T21:31:01","slug":"jonathan-lethem-likes-marvel-comics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/2004\/04\/14\/jonathan-lethem-likes-marvel-comics\/","title":{"rendered":"Jonathan Lethem likes Marvel Comics!"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote class=\"cite\"><p>\nThe comics Karl and I actually relished in 1976 and 1977, if we were honest (and Karl was more honest than me), were <cite>The Defenders<\/cite>, <cite>Omega the Unknown<\/cite> and <cite>Howard the Duck<\/cite>, all written by a mad genius called Steve Gerber, and <cite>Captain Marvel<\/cite> and <cite>Warlock<\/cite>, both written and drawn by another auteur briefly in fashion, Jim Starlin.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"small\">\nJonathan Lethem, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lrb.co.uk\/v26\/n08\/leth01_.html\">My Marvel Years<\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/pictures\/wissewords\/omega-the-unknown.jpg\" align=\"left\" width=\"71\" height=\"110\" alt=\"cover of Omega the Unknown #5\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\nYou cannot fake that level of geekdom. Easy enough to pretend to have liked <cite>Howard the Duck<\/cite>, but <cite>Omega the Unknown<\/cite>? No way. It&#8217;s one of those comics you&#8217;ll only known about if you actually care about comics, or were reading them at the right time. One of those weird little comics Marvel threw out in the mid-seventies for a few issues, only to cancel when the newsstand returns came in.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The comics Karl and I actually relished in 1976 and 1977, if we were honest (and Karl was more honest than me), were The Defenders, Omega the Unknown and Howard the Duck, all written by a mad genius called Steve Gerber, and Captain Marvel and Warlock, both written and drawn by another auteur briefly in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64,7],"tags":[605,607,606],"class_list":["post-1064","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-literature","category-comix","tag-jonathan-lethem","tag-omega-the-unknown","tag-steve-gerber"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1064","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1064"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1064\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1065,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1064\/revisions\/1065"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1064"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1064"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1064"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}