{"id":2881,"date":"2011-04-11T15:51:40","date_gmt":"2011-04-11T20:51:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/2011\/04\/11\/scrap-iron-man-want\/"},"modified":"2011-04-11T15:51:40","modified_gmt":"2011-04-11T20:51:40","slug":"scrap-iron-man-want","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/2011\/04\/11\/scrap-iron-man-want\/","title":{"rendered":"Scrap Iron Man &#8212; want!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\nChina Mi&eacute;ville <a href=\"http:\/\/chinamieville.net\/post\/4406165249\/rejected-pitch\">has a modest proposal for a new superhero series<\/a>:\n<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\nAn extraordinary figure in bizarre makeshift power armour the colours of rust and hazard-warning yellow has appeared, fighting burglars, thieves, drug-dealers, graffiti-taggers. Flashback: he\u2019s Dan, an ex-worker in one of the high-tech heavy defence plants, horrified at the social breakdown, going through the many scrapheaps of the town and cobbling together his suit from industrial junk, trying to save his home.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nDan smashes up a crack house, but while most of those within run, one stays and jeers at him, calls him a bully. Dan knows her: Louise was the union rep at his factory. He\u2019s ashamed: he always liked her. They get talking. \u2018You really want to do right by Flinton?\u2019 Louise says eventually. \u2018By all the other Flintons? Then quit messing with symptoms. It\u2019s time to take down the real villain.\u2019\n<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>\nThe crew take their places at the controls. Dan puts on the battered welding helmet that disguises his identity and, in a burst of rust, launches into the sky for New York, to face down the sociopathic authoritarian fascist arms-dealing corporate billionaire responsible for so many countless deaths, in the US and around the world: Tony fucking Stark.\n<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\nWant!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>China Mi&eacute;ville has a modest proposal for a new superhero series: An extraordinary figure in bizarre makeshift power armour the colours of rust and hazard-warning yellow has appeared, fighting burglars, thieves, drug-dealers, graffiti-taggers. Flashback: he\u2019s Dan, an ex-worker in one of the high-tech heavy defence plants, horrified at the social breakdown, going through the many [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2881","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-comix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2881","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=2881"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2881\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2881"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2881"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}