{"id":240,"date":"2006-08-03T17:04:56","date_gmt":"2006-08-04T00:04:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alertnerd.com\/blog\/2006\/08\/03\/why-brian-k-vaughan-whyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy\/"},"modified":"2006-08-03T17:04:56","modified_gmt":"2006-08-04T00:04:56","slug":"why-brian-k-vaughan-whyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/?p=240","title":{"rendered":"Why, Brian K. Vaughan? WHYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY?!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m finally about caught up on my comics from the last few weeks and just finished <em>Runaways <\/em> #18. I knew someone was gonna die, but&#8230;<em>dude<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>SPOILERS after the jump.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Gert? Gert?!?!!! That is so not cool, Brian K. Vaughan. Gert is adored by the clunky glasses-wearing legions of the nerd girl world! Gert is the one who, endearingly, does not look like a typical superhero or a generic, cutesy teenage girl (note: I am not saying the other girl characters look at all generic, just that Gert is the most mold-breaking of the lot). Gert is the one with the smartass remarks, the witty rejoinders. Gert keeps the humor in play. Gert is purple-haired and <em>awesome<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Did it <em>have<\/em> to be Gert?<\/p>\n<p>SIGH. Vaughan explains himself <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wizarduniverse.com\/magazine\/wizard\/001132982.cfm\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m finally about caught up on my comics from the last few weeks and just finished Runaways #18. I knew someone was gonna die, but&#8230;dude. SPOILERS after the jump.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-240","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-comics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240","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\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=240"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}