{"id":77,"date":"2006-04-25T16:58:29","date_gmt":"2006-04-25T23:58:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alertnerd.com\/blog\/2006\/04\/25\/smells-like-old-comics\/"},"modified":"2006-04-25T16:58:29","modified_gmt":"2006-04-25T23:58:29","slug":"smells-like-old-comics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/?p=77","title":{"rendered":"Smells Like Old Comics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Anyone who has ever collected comic books knows what I mean when I say that I love the smell of old comics.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a musty smell, like rotting paper, and so I guess it&#8217;s not a good sign, since the goal of most comic book collectors is to preserve those rotting bits of paper for as long as possible, in the best condition possible. Still, it&#8217;s a GREAT smell. It smells like history.<\/p>\n<p>All of this is just to say I got a big ass whiff of Eau de Old Comics this morning when my eBay order for most of the first Wolfman\/Perez Teen Titans run arrived. Man, am I psyched to dig into this batch of books. It&#8217;s already been a horseshit week and I can think of no better way to improve my mood than reading old comics and sniffing their magical scent.<\/p>\n<p>Aaaaaaaaah.<\/p>\n<p><strong>And&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>These <a href=\"http:\/\/www.comicbookresources.com\/news\/newsitem.cgi?id=7152\">Detective Comics preview pages<\/a> look sweeeeeeet.<\/p>\n<p>Also sweet: Sarah&#8217;s new blog, <a href=\"http:\/\/greathera.typepad.com\">Great Hera!<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Anyone who has ever collected comic books knows what I mean when I say that I love the smell of old comics. It&#8217;s a musty smell, like rotting paper, and so I guess it&#8217;s not a good sign, since the goal of most comic book collectors is to preserve those rotting bits of paper for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-misc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77","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=77"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=77"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=77"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=77"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}