{"id":3400,"date":"2012-07-17T20:11:26","date_gmt":"2012-07-18T01:11:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=3400"},"modified":"2012-07-17T20:11:26","modified_gmt":"2012-07-18T01:11:26","slug":"it-came-from-comic-con","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=3400","title":{"rendered":"It Came From Comic-Con"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Another Comic-Con has come and gone and I was largely content to read the updates from the comfort of my desk (although attending the <a href=\"http:\/\/io9.com\/5926419\/watch-the-entire-firefly-10-year-reunion-panel-and-try-not-to-cry?tag=firefly\"><em>Firefly<\/em> cast reunion<\/a> would have been worth the trip). A few things previewed at the Con that I&#8217;m particularly anticipating:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Brian Wood&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.comicsalliance.com\/2012\/07\/12\/brian-wood-star-wars-dark-horse-comic-con-sdcc-2012\/\"><em>Star Wars<\/em> comic<\/a>&#8211;I&#8217;m looking forward to the inevitable issue portraying a day in the life of a deeply cynical stormtrooper.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ign.com\/articles\/2012\/07\/15\/comic-con-revolution-imagines-life-without-electricity\"><em>Revolution<\/em><\/a>&#8211;J.J. Abrams returns to television with a series about a world in permanent blackout. I expect lots of sweaty, attractive people saying cryptic things to each other.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/heat-vision\/comic-con-elysium-footage-neill-bomkamp-349201\"><em>Elysium<\/em><\/a>&#8211;Neal Blomkamp, director of the superlative <em>District 9<\/em>, tells another tale of the disenfranchised, this time in a future dystopian setting. But will we get anything as cool as <em>District 9<\/em>&#8216;s battle mech sequence?<\/li>\n<li><em>The Hobbit<\/em>&#8211;Duh!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Anything catch your interest?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another Comic-Con has come and gone and I was largely content to read the updates from the comfort of my desk (although attending the Firefly cast reunion would have been worth the trip). A few things previewed at the Con that I&#8217;m particularly anticipating: Brian Wood&#8217;s Star Wars comic&#8211;I&#8217;m looking forward to the inevitable issue <a href='https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=3400' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","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":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3400","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pop-culture","category-11-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9Iwau-SQ","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3400","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=3400"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3400\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3401,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3400\/revisions\/3401"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}