{"id":145,"date":"2007-07-10T09:51:00","date_gmt":"2007-07-10T14:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/comicscomicsmag.com\/2007\/07\/so-i-guess\/"},"modified":"2007-07-10T09:51:00","modified_gmt":"2007-07-10T14:51:00","slug":"so-i-guess","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/comicscomicsmag.com\/?p=145","title":{"rendered":"So I Guess"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s the Robert A. Heinlein<\/a> centennial or something. He wrote some good stories and books, and I think his reputation is deserved, but for the most part, Heinlein was never my cup of tea. Too weird, and not in a way I could really identify with. Everyone was so competent all the time. Stranger in a Strange Land<\/a> was pretty mind-blowing when I was thirteen, though. Nipples going “spung” and all that. Or was that from a different book? (Kurt Vonnegut wrote about Stranger<\/span> for the New York Times<\/span> here<\/a>.)<\/p>\n

Anyway, Jesse Walker<\/a> recently posted a link to a comic strip adaptation<\/a> of one of Heinlein’s novels that ran in Boys’ Life magazine<\/a> (the magazine “for all boys”, but really a propaganda vehicle for the Boy Scouts).<\/p>\n

Which reminded me that Boys’ Life<\/span> was one of my earliest sources (besides the Sunday newspaper) for regular cartoon reading. Most of it wasn’t very good. I never found Pedro (the magazine’s burro mascot) amusing, no matter how hard I tried. Lots of lousy camping-based gag cartoons. And Tom Swifties<\/a> are not only not comics, but also not funny.<\/p>\n

But the long-running adaptation of John Christopher’s Tripods series<\/a>? That was some spooky stuff.<\/p>\n

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It’s the Robert A. Heinlein centennial or something. He wrote some good stories and books, and I think his reputation is deserved, but for the most part, Heinlein was never my cup of tea. Too weird, and not in a way I could really identify with. Everyone was so competent all the time. Stranger in a Strange Land was pretty mind-blowing when I was thirteen, though. Nipples going “spung” and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[153,687,766,975,1123],"class_list":["post-145","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-boys-life","tag-christopher","tag-vonnegut","tag-nostalgia","tag-heinlein"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/comicscomicsmag.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/comicscomicsmag.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/comicscomicsmag.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comicscomicsmag.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comicscomicsmag.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=145"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/comicscomicsmag.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/comicscomicsmag.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comicscomicsmag.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comicscomicsmag.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}