{"id":4302,"date":"2009-08-06T10:40:09","date_gmt":"2009-08-06T14:40:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/?p=4302"},"modified":"2010-02-16T17:02:36","modified_gmt":"2010-02-16T22:02:36","slug":"the-blood-club","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/the-blood-club","title":{"rendered":"The Blood Club"},"content":{"rendered":"

On Monday, I wrote that I was going to launch a recurring Thursday feature<\/a> reprinting mean-spirited reviews I wrote for The Comics Journal<\/a> back in 1998. It was going to be Klassik Komiks Kritikism,<\/em> but my lawyers have informed me that title could be construed as a sign that I’m a member of the Bloods<\/a>, like this guy (I thought he was a member of the Inks, but hey):<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/p>\n

So beginning next Thursday, get ready for your Classic Comics Criticism Post!<\/em> Now no one can mistake me for a member of any gang, except maybe the former Soviet Union.<\/p>\n

(Alternate title for this series: How To Get Bob Fingerman Pissed Off At Me All Over Again.<\/em>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

On Monday, I wrote that I was going to launch a recurring Thursday feature reprinting mean-spirited reviews I wrote for The Comics Journal back in 1998. It was going to be Klassik Komiks Kritikism, but my lawyers have informed me that title could be construed as a sign that I’m a member of the Bloods, … <\/p>\n

Continue reading “The Blood Club”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"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":[793,26,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4302","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-classic-comics-criticism","category-comics","category-literature"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4C7K-17o","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":4371,"url":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/classic-comics-criticism-black-hole-son-in-law","url_meta":{"origin":4302,"position":0},"title":"Classic Comics Criticism: Black Hole Son-In-Law","author":"Gil","date":"August 20, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"My in-laws' tradition (on my wife's dad's side) for the big family gathering on Christmas eve is that everyone draws the name of another family-member and buys a present for that person. 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