{"id":284,"date":"2008-04-09T14:38:00","date_gmt":"2008-04-09T19:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/comicscomicsmag.com\/2008\/04\/marker-removed\/"},"modified":"2008-04-09T14:38:00","modified_gmt":"2008-04-09T19:38:00","slug":"marker-removed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/comicscomicsmag.com\/?p=284","title":{"rendered":"Marker Removed?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/bp1.blogger.com\/_2v-Vwo5ul9Y\/R_0b2Zd1DkI\/AAAAAAAAAWU\/orZ0H1wX7Is\/s1600-h\/omeg7.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" style=\"float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/bp1.blogger.com\/_2v-Vwo5ul9Y\/R_0b2Zd1DkI\/AAAAAAAAAWU\/orZ0H1wX7Is\/s320\/omeg7.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\"id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5187332967163563586\" \/><\/a>I went to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.marvel.com\/catalog\/?id=8476\">Omega the Unknown<\/a> event at <a href=\"http:\/\/rocketshipstore.blogspot.com\">Rocketship<\/a> last week to see co-creators <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jonathanlethem.com\/\">Jonathan Lethem<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/fareldal.livejournal.com\/\">Farel Dalrymple<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsandheadlice.blogspot.com\/\">Paul Hornschemeier<\/a>, Karl Rusnak, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.garypanter.com\/\">Gary Panter<\/a> talk about the series. I was feeling a little under the weather, and the store was packed, so I didn&#8217;t stay long, but I did get a chance to briefly ask Lethem about the whole Rusnak\/Kansur thing I <a href=\"http:\/\/comicscomicsmag.blogspot.com\/2007\/10\/marker.html\">pointed out<\/a> a million internet years ago, and then <a href=\"http:\/\/comicscomicsmag.blogspot.com\/2007\/12\/cage-match-1-omega-unknown-2007.html\">expanded on<\/a> a few thousand years later. Suffice it to say I didn&#8217;t get a very mind-blowing answer &#8212; if I recall correctly, Lethem called it &#8220;pretty obvious, huh?&#8221; and then went on to say that &#8220;Kansur&#8221; was Rusnak&#8217;s old graffiti tag, and that, sort of like how Charlie Brown always wanted to be called &#8220;Flash&#8221;, Rusnak used to wish his first name was &#8220;Rex&#8221;. Anyway, as this doesn&#8217;t exactly provide evidence for my &#8220;grand theories&#8221; (though it doesn&#8217;t necessarily contradict them!), I probably shouldn&#8217;t mention it, but due to my irreproachable personal <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=inNBl6UV1TY\">honor code<\/a>, I felt compelled to publicize it here. (That link is like my favorite political commercial of all time, by the way.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I went to the Omega the Unknown event at Rocketship last week to see co-creators Jonathan Lethem, Farel Dalrymple, Paul Hornschemeier, Karl Rusnak, and Gary Panter talk about the series. I was feeling a little under the weather, and the store was packed, so I didn&#8217;t stay long, but I did get a chance to briefly ask Lethem about the whole Rusnak\/Kansur thing I pointed out a million internet years [&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":[429,479,515,713,734,1011,1057,1135],"class_list":["post-284","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-dalrymple","tag-panter","tag-graffiti","tag-lethem","tag-rusnak","tag-hornschemeier","tag-propaganda","tag-rocketship"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/comicscomicsmag.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284","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=284"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/comicscomicsmag.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/comicscomicsmag.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comicscomicsmag.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comicscomicsmag.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}