{"id":222,"date":"2008-01-04T01:29:00","date_gmt":"2008-01-04T06:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/comicscomicsmag.com\/2008\/01\/dennis-worden\/"},"modified":"2008-01-04T01:29:00","modified_gmt":"2008-01-04T06:29:00","slug":"dennis-worden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/comicscomicsmag.com\/?p=222","title":{"rendered":"Dennis Worden"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/bp1.blogger.com\/_D8lGkTzFWrk\/R33TzjiUYEI\/AAAAAAAAAEU\/JU53HYKYhcA\/s1600-h\/bongodick2093.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\/bp1.blogger.com\/_D8lGkTzFWrk\/R33TzjiUYEI\/AAAAAAAAAEU\/JU53HYKYhcA\/s400\/bongodick2093.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\"id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5151506431447687234\" \/><\/a>I found this mini-comic at Copacetic in the quarter bin. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.comicartcollective.com\/detail.cfm?page=CCC20566-E143-4521-B1BF8FB254D0705B\">Bongo Dick<\/a>.&#8221;The rejected strips of Dennis Worden.&#8221;  Remember <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dennisworden.com\/pics\/comic-stk8intropg.htm\">Stickboy<\/a>? He makes a few brief appearances in this mini from 1986.  But, for me, the best part of these &#8220;rejected&#8221; strips are the one pagers, like this one.  Also, Worden fills in the negative space at the bottom of some pages with TV Guide capsule reviews from &#8217;86.  Channel 42 was showing: MOVIE &#8211; biography &#8220;The Winning Team&#8221; (1952) Ronald Reagan, as the immortal Satan&#8217;s son, eyes the Presidency.  Rossano Brazzi, Don Gordon. (1hr., 50 min.) I dunno if Worden had a computer back then or not to emulate TV Guide&#8217;s font but I sure was fooled.  Channel 13 was showing &#8220;Ramrod&#8221; -western (1947) A sheep herder&#8217;s daughter (Veronica Lake) starts a bath with cattle barons, giving everyone a hard time. Joel McCrea.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I found this mini-comic at Copacetic in the quarter bin. Bongo Dick.&#8221;The rejected strips of Dennis Worden.&#8221; Remember Stickboy? He makes a few brief appearances in this mini from 1986. But, for me, the best part of these &#8220;rejected&#8221; strips are the one pagers, like this one. Also, Worden fills in the negative space at the bottom of some pages with TV Guide capsule reviews from &#8217;86. Channel 42 was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"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":[341,918,1142,1169,1238],"class_list":["post-222","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-worden","tag-mini-comics","tag-reagan","tag-satan","tag-stickboy"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/comicscomicsmag.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222","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\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comicscomicsmag.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=222"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/comicscomicsmag.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/comicscomicsmag.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comicscomicsmag.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comicscomicsmag.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}