{"id":649,"date":"2007-09-11T07:43:40","date_gmt":"2007-09-11T14:43:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alertnerd.com\/blog\/?p=649"},"modified":"2010-10-19T19:51:34","modified_gmt":"2010-10-19T19:51:34","slug":"weirdest-cover-lately","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/?p=649","title":{"rendered":"Weirdest Cover (Lately)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Take a look at this Gene Colan cover to The Phantom Zone #3, written by Steve Gerber:<\/p>\n<p><img src='http:\/\/alertnerd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/09\/2634_4_3.jpg' alt='2634_4_3.jpg' \/><\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s unpack.<\/p>\n<p>1) Superman is gettin&#8217; up close and personal with a strange woman wearing a mask. Above this woman, a seductive face floats.<\/p>\n<p>2) The mask comes off to reveal&#8211;OH NOES&#8211;the woman&#8217;s real head is a planet, namely Krypton.<\/p>\n<p>3) The Krypton head explodes. The floating face laughs.<\/p>\n<p>4) Accompanying it all is the smart-ass, Marvel-esque tagline: &#8220;Have you ever noticed&#8230;that on some days&#8230;everything seems to go WRONG?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>If by &#8220;wrong,&#8221; you mean that on some days, I am sexually attracted to a mysterious masked woman whose head is actually my home planet which then explodes while I stand there shellshocked, then NO, I have never noticed that.<\/p>\n<p>ALSO: The answer to An Important Question has arrived: With 46% of the votes, Kirstie Alley has been named Alert Nerd&#8217;s Cutest Saavik. A tastefully-framed certificate will be forwarded to her care of Weight Watchers at our earliest convenience.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Take a look at this Gene Colan cover to The Phantom Zone #3, written by Steve Gerber: Let&#8217;s unpack. 1) Superman is gettin&#8217; up close and personal with a strange woman wearing a mask. Above this woman, a seductive face floats. 2) The mask comes off to reveal&#8211;OH NOES&#8211;the woman&#8217;s real head is a planet, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-649","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-comics","category-movies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/649","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=649"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/649\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}