{"id":3124,"date":"2012-02-02T20:38:57","date_gmt":"2012-02-02T20:38:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=3124"},"modified":"2012-02-02T20:38:57","modified_gmt":"2012-02-02T20:38:57","slug":"the_early_years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=3124","title":{"rendered":"The Early Years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Plenty of nerds are up in arms over the fact that DC Comics is planning <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2012\/02\/01\/books\/dc-comics-plans-prequels-to-watchmen-series.html?_r=1&amp;ref=books\">a series of prequels to <i>Watchmen<\/i><\/a>, the seminal comic that ushered the medium out of drugstore racks and into crit lit seminars. The move doesn&#8217;t particularly bother me. It may not be necessary, but I&#8217;m curious to see what the series does with the characters, particularly the omnipotent Dr. Manhattan. Then again, I liked the film adaptation of <i>Watchmen <\/i>(which a lot of geeks treated with contempt), so perhaps I&#8217;m in the minority on this as well. Alan Moore pulled himself away from his dog-eared copy of the <i>Necronomicon <\/i>to express his displeasure at DC for expanding upon his creation, but it&#8217;s a safe bet that DC doesn&#8217;t care what Moore thinks. <\/p>\n<p>And while I&#8217;ll probably give the series a try, I&#8217;m not sure I want to know why the Comedian is wearing a bondage mask as shown below. <\/p>\n<p><a><br \/>\n<span itemprop=\"associatedMedia\" itemscope=\"\" itemid=\"http:\/\/graphics8.nytimes.com\/images\/2012\/02\/01\/arts\/comics\/comics-articleInline.jpg\" itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/ImageObject\"><br \/>\n<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" itemprop=\"url\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/graphics8.nytimes.com\/images\/2012\/02\/01\/arts\/comics\/comics-articleInline.jpg?resize=190%2C293\" alt=\"\" height=\"293\" width=\"190\" \/><br \/>\n<meta itemprop=\"identifier\"><br \/>\n<meta itemprop=\"height\"><br \/>\n<meta itemprop=\"width\"><br \/>\n<meta itemprop=\"copyrightHolder\"><br \/>\n<\/span><br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Plenty of nerds are up in arms over the fact that DC Comics is planning a series of prequels to Watchmen, the seminal comic that ushered the medium out of drugstore racks and into crit lit seminars. The move doesn&#8217;t particularly bother me. It may not be necessary, but I&#8217;m curious to see what the <a href='https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=3124' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sfsi_plus_gutenberg_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_show_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_type":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_alignemt":"","sfsi_plus_gutenburg_max_per_row":"","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,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3124","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","category-1-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9Iwau-Oo","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3124","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3124"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3124\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}