{"id":3913,"date":"2010-07-07T17:11:34","date_gmt":"2010-07-07T21:11:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/comicscomicsmag.com\/?p=3913"},"modified":"2010-07-07T17:11:34","modified_gmt":"2010-07-07T21:11:34","slug":"giving-thor-some-competition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/comicscomicsmag.com\/?p=3913","title":{"rendered":"Giving Thor Some Competition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, my favorite <a href=\"http:\/\/marvelous-coma.blogspot.com\/\">comics critic<\/a> (ahem, present company excepted), Brian Chippendale, is currently on the road in his other role as <a href=\"http:\/\/laserbeast.com\/\">Lightning Bolt<\/a> hammer god. While on the road he&#8217;s frantically approving proofs for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pictureboxinc.com\/products\/428-if-n-oof\">If &#8216;n Oof<\/a>, which, yes, sir, is at press! All 800 pages of it, all flexi-bound with spot varnish and funky endpapers and oh so much more. Sir <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dharbin.com\/\">Dustin Harbin <\/a>was even kind enough to receive a FedEx of proofs for Chipps and deliver it right to his sweaty hands! Phew. Anyhow, here&#8217;s a killer video of Brian in action, the night before he approve the final files for the cover. Note the July 4th fireworks. <\/p>\n<p><object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"480\" height=\"385\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/yWppVSF2dXs&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, my favorite comics critic (ahem, present company excepted), Brian Chippendale, is currently on the road in his other role as Lightning Bolt hammer god. While on the road he&#8217;s frantically approving proofs for If &#8216;n Oof, which, yes, sir, is at press! All 800 pages of it, all flexi-bound with spot varnish and funky endpapers and oh so much more. Sir Dustin Harbin was even kind enough to receive [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"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":[3],"tags":[162,275],"class_list":["post-3913","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","tag-chippendale","tag-comics-vs-music"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/comicscomicsmag.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3913","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comicscomicsmag.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3913"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/comicscomicsmag.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3913\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/comicscomicsmag.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3913"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comicscomicsmag.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3913"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comicscomicsmag.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3913"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}