{"id":146,"date":"2007-07-11T15:21:00","date_gmt":"2007-07-11T20:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/comicscomicsmag.com\/2007\/07\/what-people-are-saying-about-cc3\/"},"modified":"2007-07-11T15:21:00","modified_gmt":"2007-07-11T20:21:00","slug":"what-people-are-saying-about-cc3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/comicscomicsmag.com\/?p=146","title":{"rendered":"What People Are Saying About CC3"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/bp3.blogger.com\/_2v-Vwo5ul9Y\/RpU-yR2jzPI\/AAAAAAAAAH4\/5EoTmCLu9iM\/s1600-h\/cc3_cover_med.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" style=\"float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/bp3.blogger.com\/_2v-Vwo5ul9Y\/RpU-yR2jzPI\/AAAAAAAAAH4\/5EoTmCLu9iM\/s320\/cc3_cover_med.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\"id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5086040387691465970\" \/><\/a>As most of you know, this is the week <a href=\"http:\/\/comicscomicsmag.blogspot.com\/2007\/07\/comics-comics-3-out-in-stores.html\">Comics Comics 3<\/a> is supposed to be shipping to finer comic stores, and early reviews are in!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.comicsreporter.com\/index.php\/this_isnt_a_library_new_and_notable_releases_to_the_comics_direct_marketx11\/\">Tom &#8220;The Comics Reporter&#8221; Spurgeon<\/a> calls it &#8220;lovely-looking &#8230; full of engaging essays where writers stake out a unique aesthetic position and then defend it. A lot of comics coverage leaves off that first part. The third and best issue.&#8221;<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/joglikescomics.blogspot.com\/2007\/07\/its-going-up-right-now.html\"><br \/>Joe &#8220;Jog&#8221; McCulloch<\/a> (who, as a contributor to the issue, is perhaps not completely trustworthy) calls it a &#8220;fine newspaper of comics information and festivity&#8221;, and further claims, &#8220;It\u2019s a scientifically proven fact that a copy of <span style=\"font-style:italic;\">Comics Comics<\/span> can heal a multitude of diseases if pressed against the offending portion of the body, though it\u2019s gotta be a sick body part, not just offending.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Last but not least (well, technically, I guess it <span style=\"font-style:italic;\">is<\/span> least), <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.newsarama.com\/2007\/07\/10\/cant-wait-for-wednesday-51\/\">Newsarama&#8217;s Chris Mautner<\/a> ranks the issue as &#8220;pretty good&#8221;. But he also says there are &#8220;lots of crack reviews&#8221;, which sounds <span style=\"font-style:italic;\">very<\/span> good to me.<\/p>\n<p>Next post: less hype, more blog.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As most of you know, this is the week Comics Comics 3 is supposed to be shipping to finer comic stores, and early reviews are in! Tom &#8220;The Comics Reporter&#8221; Spurgeon calls it &#8220;lovely-looking &#8230; full of engaging essays where writers stake out a unique aesthetic position and then defend it. A lot of comics coverage leaves off that first part. The third and best issue.&#8221;Joe &#8220;Jog&#8221; McCulloch (who, as [&hellip;]<\/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":[234,262,682,1314],"class_list":["post-146","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-mautner","tag-comics-comics","tag-jog","tag-spurgeon"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/comicscomicsmag.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146","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=146"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/comicscomicsmag.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/comicscomicsmag.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comicscomicsmag.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comicscomicsmag.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}