{"id":459,"date":"2006-08-03T19:59:12","date_gmt":"2006-08-04T00:59:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/?p=459"},"modified":"2006-08-03T19:59:52","modified_gmt":"2006-08-04T00:59:52","slug":"best-message-board-retort-ever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/?p=459","title":{"rendered":"Best Message Board Retort Ever"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tcj.com\/messboard\/ubb\/Forum2\/HTML\/005388.html\">The Comics Journal message board<\/a>&#8230; The topic is basically, why aren&#8217;t characters in super-hero comic books shown smoking anymore?<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><b>Posting<\/b>:<font face=\"Verdana, Arial\" size=\"2\"> The reason why there is no smoking<\/font><br \/><font face=\"Verdana, Arial\" size=\"2\">in marvel is because [Marvel comics editor in cheif, Joe] Quesada has banned it. Not even Wolverine or the Punisher can smoke anymore. Quesada believes that children look up to Marvel superheros, and that by having smoking in thier comics kids will<\/font><br \/><font face=\"Verdana, Arial\" size=\"2\">want to smoke&#8230;<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font face=\"Verdana, Arial\" size=\"2\">Quesada is on a high horse about this because his father died of lung cancer.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><b>Response<\/b>: <font face=\"Verdana, Arial\" size=\"2\">Too bad his father didn&#8217;t die from making shitty comics.<\/font><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From The Comics Journal message board&#8230; The topic is basically, why aren&#8217;t characters in super-hero comic books shown smoking anymore? Posting: The reason why there is no smokingin marvel is because [Marvel comics editor in cheif, Joe] Quesada has banned it. Not even Wolverine or the Punisher can smoke anymore. Quesada believes that children look &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link btn\" href=\"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/?p=459\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","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":[],"tags":[45],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p46veT-7p","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/459"}],"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=459"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/459\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}