{"id":184,"date":"2007-10-22T13:16:00","date_gmt":"2007-10-22T18:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/comicscomicsmag.com\/2007\/10\/comics-that-never-were-2\/"},"modified":"2007-10-22T13:16:00","modified_gmt":"2007-10-22T18:16:00","slug":"comics-that-never-were-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/comicscomicsmag.com\/?p=184","title":{"rendered":"Comics That Never Were #2"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Q. I was hoping for graphic art \u2014 perhaps a comic book based on one of Oscar&#8217;s sci-fi novels. Is that totally off the wall?<\/p>\n<p>A. Not at all. Actually part of the plan was to have a section where it would have been a comic book or a science-fiction story. But what ends up happening is that it was weird.<\/p>\n<p>Every time I tried to write it, the book ejected it. Believe me, I had all these ideas. There were supposed to be dozens of comic book panels and photos throughout the book. Had I had the talent, and the book could have withstood it, I would have. Sorry to say, it didn&#8217;t come together.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: right;\">\u2014From a <a href=\"http:\/\/labloga.blogspot.com\/2007\/10\/guest-interview-junot-daz.html\">La Bloga interview<\/a> with novelist <a href=\"http:\/\/www.junotdiaz.com\/\">Junot D\u00edaz<\/a>,<br \/>regarding <a href=\"http:\/\/comicscomicsmag.blogspot.com\/2007\/10\/books-books.html\">The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao<\/a><\/div>\n<p>[Via <a href=\"http:\/\/marksarvas.blogs.com\/elegvar\/2007\/10\/diaz-interview.html\">The Elegant Variation<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Q. I was hoping for graphic art \u2014 perhaps a comic book based on one of Oscar&#8217;s sci-fi novels. Is that totally off the wall? A. Not at all. Actually part of the plan was to have a section where it would have been a comic book or a science-fiction story. But what ends up happening is that it was weird. Every time I tried to write it, the book [&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":[268,273,730],"class_list":["post-184","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-comics-that-never-were","tag-comics-vs-literature","tag-diaz"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/comicscomicsmag.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184","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=184"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/comicscomicsmag.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/comicscomicsmag.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comicscomicsmag.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comicscomicsmag.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}