{"id":23,"date":"2006-04-07T14:11:22","date_gmt":"2006-04-06T21:11:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alertnerd.com\/blog\/2006\/04\/07\/the-story-could-have-covered-more-ground-jenny\/"},"modified":"2010-09-07T18:52:00","modified_gmt":"2010-09-07T18:52:00","slug":"the-story-could-have-covered-more-ground-jenny","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/?p=23","title":{"rendered":"The story could have covered more ground, Xeni."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>But then, she&#8217;s not promoting comics as a whole, just certain comics. Xeni Jardin at BoingBoing has a thing for promoting the work of her comic friends (cool) &#8211; in this case, her pal Matt Fraction has a comic, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boingboing.net\/2006\/04\/06\/five_fists_of_scienc.html\" target=\"_new\">Five Fists of Science<\/a> coming out, which is a more adventurous take on Mark Twain, Nikola Tesla, and Thomas Edison (who is the bad guy, if I understand correctly.)<\/p>\n<p>If she&#8217;d been a true comic nerd, should would have also recommended <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Tales_From_the_Bully_Pulpit\" target=\"_new\">Tales From the Bully Pulpit<\/a>, in which Teddy Roosevelt and the ghost of Thomas Edison travel through time and space fighting Nazis, Martians, and Nazi Martians.<\/p>\n<p>Then there&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thefourthrail.com\/reviews\/critiques\/041403\/jlaageofwonder1.shtml\" target=\"_new\">JLA: Age of Wonder<\/a>, in which the iconic league characters are transposed over top the birth of the industrial age, with appearances by Nikola Tesla and Thomas Edison. The two-parter covers a lot of deep waters, looking at progress and its relationship to war, social unrest, and why Lex Luthor has no hair.<\/p>\n<p>Me &#8211; picking up where Jardin left off, since&#8230; well, now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>But then, she&#8217;s not promoting comics as a whole, just certain comics. Xeni Jardin at BoingBoing has a thing for promoting the work of her comic friends (cool) &#8211; in this case, her pal Matt Fraction has a comic, Five Fists of Science coming out, which is a more adventurous take on Mark Twain, Nikola [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-comics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}