{"id":1450,"date":"2009-04-05T21:57:45","date_gmt":"2009-04-06T01:57:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/?p=1450"},"modified":"2009-04-05T21:57:45","modified_gmt":"2009-04-06T01:57:45","slug":"comics-goons-are-born-not-made","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/?p=1450","title":{"rendered":"Comics Goons Are Born, Not Made"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">This afternoon I was clearing out some junk from the cabinets in my studio, trying to make more room in there for the stuff that&#8217;s currently clogging up my shelves, and I came upon a really hilarious research paper I had to write, apparently in high school.\u00a0 Not surprisingly, the subject is superheroes.\u00a0 I present here, fully aware of the potential repercussions, the preposterous outline of this paper&#8211;typed on an actual typewriter no less&#8211;from 1987, making me 16 at the time:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"young_nerd\" href=\"http:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/uploads\/2009\/04\/young_nerd.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"attachment wp-att-1452 centered\" src=\"http:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/uploads\/2009\/04\/young_nerd.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"young_nerd\" width=\"233\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Actually, the penultimate section is strangely (and not intentionally) prescient: &#8220;Adult comics, Superman, Batman.&#8221;\u00a0 In the late 80s, with the publication of stuff like <em>Maus<\/em>, <em>Watchmen<\/em> and <em>The Dark Knight<\/em>, young comics goofuses like myself truly thought the art form had &#8220;arrived.&#8221;\u00a0 And yet, once those three books had faded (the latter two of which don&#8217;t seem nearly as non-juvenile in retrospect as they did at the time) there wasn&#8217;t really anything &#8220;adult&#8221; to come after and we were left pretty much back where we began.\u00a0 Batman, Superman&#8230; &#8220;adult comics&#8221;&#8230; Batman, Superman.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This afternoon I was clearing out some junk from the cabinets in my studio, trying to make more room in there for the stuff that&#8217;s currently clogging up my shelves, and I came upon a really hilarious research paper I had to write, apparently in high school.\u00a0 Not surprisingly, the subject is superheroes.\u00a0 I present &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link btn\" href=\"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/?p=1450\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"footnotes":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[45],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p46veT-no","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1450"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1450"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1450\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1457,"href":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1450\/revisions\/1457"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1450"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1450"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1450"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}