{"id":465,"date":"2007-03-20T15:09:03","date_gmt":"2007-03-20T22:09:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alertnerd.com\/blog\/archives\/465"},"modified":"2007-03-20T15:09:03","modified_gmt":"2007-03-20T22:09:03","slug":"and-knowing-is-half-the-battle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/?p=465","title":{"rendered":"And knowing is half the battle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img SRC=\"http:\/\/www.protoncharging.com\/ghostbusters\/images\/page_cover_sml.gif\" align=\"left\">There&#8217;s a new magazine popping up in the UK called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cerealgeek.com\/\">Cereal:Geek<\/a> (not to be confused with plain old <a href=\"http:\/\/www.geekmonthly.com\/\">Geek magazine<\/a>, which is also worth noting) that will come out quarterly &#8211; 100 pages, no ads &#8211; and focus on those wonderful, wasted Saturday mornings of youth. Specifically the 80s. Boomers and Gen-Y need not apply.<\/p>\n<p>Dubious at first, I&#8217;ve now shelled out for the first issue &#8211; the sample pages I&#8217;ve seen feature brilliant articles and features, such as tearing apart a single episode of The Real Ghostbusters, scene by scene, because it was made using many different overseas animation studios. Or taking a cartoon episode and coming up with a cover for it, if it were a comic. Not to mention a lot of fantastic art &#8211; I mean really, what are the chances we&#8217;re going to see new M.A.S.K. art anywhere else?<\/p>\n<p>And then there&#8217;s the attention-grabbing cover, featuring a post-duke-it-out She-Ra, putting the &#8220;pow!&#8221; back in Princess of Power. Maybe they couldn&#8217;t show us blood and bruises on Saturday morning, but it was always there.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s a new magazine popping up in the UK called Cereal:Geek (not to be confused with plain old Geek magazine, which is also worth noting) that will come out quarterly &#8211; 100 pages, no ads &#8211; and focus on those wonderful, wasted Saturday mornings of youth. Specifically the 80s. Boomers and Gen-Y need not apply. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,69,197,3,127],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-465","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-comics","category-fandom","category-links","category-misc","category-toys"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/465","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=465"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/465\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=465"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=465"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=465"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}