Heh. Pardon the silly title, it's from an old Internet meme. I think.<\/p>\n
I'm back on a graphic novel reading kick – comic books, he said, dryly. Rida and I visited a bookstore yesterday – the opium den for us – and each grabbed a stack of reads.<\/p>\n
As if we don't read enough for a living, right?<\/p>\n
Anyway, I picked up two Batman graphic novels – I'm not a huge Batman fan, but I remember hearing some good things about Jeph Loeb's writing on the series, so I wanted to see what I was missing – and the first volume of the re-launched (I think) Legion of Super Heroes series. I know very little about the Legion of Super Heroes beyond the fact that they have lots of names like "Lightning Lad" and "Dream Girl". <\/p>\n
I started the Legion of Super Heroes collection first, and it's pretty good so far. I can't help thinking that it's largely like the early X-men stuff, where the whole mutant powers metaphor for being a teenage outsider beat people over the head. <\/p>\n
Listening to: "Charity Case" MC Frontalot<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Heh. Pardon the silly title, it's from an old Internet meme. I think.<\/p>\n
I'm back on a graphic novel reading kick – comic books, he said, dryly. Rida and I visited a bookstore yesterday – the opium den for us – and each grabbed a stack of reads.<\/p>\n
As if we don't read enough for a living, right?<\/p>\n
Anyway, I picked up two Batman graphic…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1566","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","has-single-img"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ridaallen.com\/blogged\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1566","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ridaallen.com\/blogged\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ridaallen.com\/blogged\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ridaallen.com\/blogged\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ridaallen.com\/blogged\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1566"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ridaallen.com\/blogged\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1566\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ridaallen.com\/blogged\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1566"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ridaallen.com\/blogged\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1566"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ridaallen.com\/blogged\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1566"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}