{"id":2115,"date":"2010-05-31T09:39:53","date_gmt":"2010-05-31T13:39:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/?p=2115"},"modified":"2010-05-31T09:40:33","modified_gmt":"2010-05-31T13:40:33","slug":"heroes-con-presentation-defective-comics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/?p=2115","title":{"rendered":"Heroes Con Presentation: Defective Comics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"defective_comics\" href=\"http:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/uploads\/2010\/05\/defective_comics.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"attachment wp-att-2116 centered\" src=\"http:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/uploads\/2010\/05\/defective_comics.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"defective_comics\" width=\"188\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">As we&#8217;ve done for the past two years, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thoughtballoonists.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Craig Fischer<\/a> and I will be giving another one of our mega-panels at Heroes Con this year.\u00a0 The topic this go &#8217;round will be <strong>DEFECTIVE COMICS: A Celebration Of  Superhero Oddness<\/strong> and it&#8217;ll be held Saturday at 3:00 pm in Room 208AB.\u00a0 Here&#8217;s the official skinny:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>Defective\u00a0 Comics: A Celebration of Superhero Oddness<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Let&#8217;s face it: superheroes can be kinda dopey. For every cultural icon like Superman or Spider-Man, there&#8217;s five thousand off-beat B-listers (Bwana Beast? Sonny Sumo? Razorback?) lining up to die in the next big crossover event. For Heroescon 2010, <em>Amelia Earhart: This Broad Ocean<\/em> cartoonist Ben Towle and Thought Balloonist blogger Craig Fischer host a lovingly critical look at just how bizarre the superhero genre can be.<\/p>\n<p>The event will include a presentation by Towle on the sad-sack super-man in Chris Ware&#8217;s <em>Acme Novelty Library<\/em>; a panel discussion with Colleen Coover, Evan Dorkin, Jeff Parker and Chris Pitzer; a talk by <em>Crogan Adventures<\/em> creator Chris Schweizer about art-comix creators crossing over into mainstream superhero comics; and clips from some of the weirdest and worst superhero films of all time. Excelsior?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>If you&#8217;re going to be at Heroes Con this year (and you really <em>should<\/em> be, you know) please check it out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As we&#8217;ve done for the past two years, Craig Fischer and I will be giving another one of our mega-panels at Heroes Con this year.\u00a0 The topic this go &#8217;round will be DEFECTIVE COMICS: A Celebration Of Superhero Oddness and it&#8217;ll be held Saturday at 3:00 pm in Room 208AB.\u00a0 Here&#8217;s the official skinny: Defective\u00a0 &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link btn\" href=\"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/?p=2115\">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":"","_bluesky_dont_syndicate":"","_bluesky_syndication_accounts":"","_bluesky_syndication_text":"","_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-y7","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2115"}],"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=2115"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2115\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2118,"href":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2115\/revisions\/2118"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}