{"id":638,"date":"2009-12-18T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-12-18T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/comicscomicsmag.com\/2009\/12\/going-faster-miles-an-hour\/"},"modified":"2009-12-18T08:00:00","modified_gmt":"2009-12-18T13:00:00","slug":"going-faster-miles-hour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/comicscomicsmag.com\/?p=638","title":{"rendered":"Going Faster Miles an Hour"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_2v-Vwo5ul9Y\/SyreqChR-3I\/AAAAAAAAAz8\/x168LDvhlqc\/s1600-h\/blackest-night-1.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" style=\"float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 263px; height: 400px;\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_2v-Vwo5ul9Y\/SyreqChR-3I\/AAAAAAAAAz8\/x168LDvhlqc\/s400\/blackest-night-1.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\"id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5416386315678776178\" \/><\/a>I&#8217;m not sure why Robin McConnell chose this image to illustrate the <a href=\"http:\/\/inkstuds.com\/?p=2538\">&#8220;Best of 2009&#8221; Inkstuds radio show<\/a> \u2014 we never ended up discussing <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Blackest_Night\">Blackest Night<\/a>, even though I read all five issues to date in preparation. (Fellow show guest <a href=\"http:\/\/www.alltooflat.com\/about\/personal\/sean\/\">Sean T. Collins<\/a>, apparently a sadist, chose it as a potential topic.) Robin, Sean, <a href=\"http:\/\/robot6.comicbookresources.com\/author\/cmautner\/\">Chris Mautner<\/a>, and I did end up talking about a bunch of other 2009 highlights, though, and if for some reason you haven&#8217;t had your fill of comic-book blather this holiday season, you can listen to the show yourself <a href=\"http:\/\/inkstuds.com\/?p=2538\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Actually, I kind of wish we had had the time to cover <span style=\"font-style:italic;\">Blackest Night<\/span>, which isn&#8217;t really good, but does represent a kind of ultra-meta-state-of-the-comics-industry symbolism that is almost impossible not to appreciate on an abstract level, whether or not it&#8217;s worth reading. (It isn&#8217;t, unless for &#8220;scholarly&#8221; purposes.) Then again, the subtext (or is it just text?) in question is pretty obvious, so it&#8217;s not like anyone needed a bunch of pointy-headed critics to draw it out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m not sure why Robin McConnell chose this image to illustrate the &#8220;Best of 2009&#8221; Inkstuds radio show \u2014 we never ended up discussing Blackest Night, even though I read all five issues to date in preparation. (Fellow show guest Sean T. Collins, apparently a sadist, chose it as a potential topic.) Robin, Sean, Chris Mautner, and I did end up talking about a bunch of other 2009 highlights, though, [&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":[3],"tags":[83,234,591,1180,1248,1254],"class_list":["post-638","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","tag-audio","tag-mautner","tag-inkstuds","tag-collins","tag-superheroes","tag-hodler"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/comicscomicsmag.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/638","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=638"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/comicscomicsmag.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/638\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/comicscomicsmag.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=638"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comicscomicsmag.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=638"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comicscomicsmag.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=638"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}