{"id":12426,"date":"2013-06-03T12:53:18","date_gmt":"2013-06-03T17:53:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/smaggi.us-east-1.derr.space\/?p=12426"},"modified":"2013-06-03T12:53:18","modified_gmt":"2013-06-03T17:53:18","slug":"this-header-is-more-like-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maggipicayune.derr.io\/wp\/2013\/06\/03\/this-header-is-more-like-it\/","title":{"rendered":"This header is more like it"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">This month is the 75th anniversary of Superman debuting. After his first appearance in\u00a0<em>Action Comics\u00a0<\/em>#1, this character slowly grew to be an ubiquitous presence in Western (mostly American) culture.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">I went with another montage based upon my favorite images: reruns with George Reeves when I was a little kid; Christopher Reeve from the Richard Donner movie (it remains the best); the Bruce Timm-managed cartoons; awesome comic-book artist Alex Ross; the famous\u00a0<em>Action Comics\u00a0<\/em>#1 cover (recently parodied for\u00a0<em>Regular Show\u00a0<\/em>#1); lastly, the\u00a0<em>MAD<\/em> magazine issue my brother and I scoured, read aloud and laughed ourselves silly over, especially when General Zod put Nixon&#8217;s image on Mt. Rushmore.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Will I be going to see\u00a0<em>Man of Steel<\/em>. Sure. It has promise despite Zack Snyder&#8217;s track record being spotty. I&#8217;m no fan of rebooting but after how lame\u00a0<em>Superman III<\/em>,\u00a0<em>IV<\/em> and\u00a0<em>Returns<\/em> were, there wasn&#8217;t much choice. The damage wasn&#8217;t as ridiculous as Burton-Schumacher&#8217;s Batman flicks yet Supes is a hard character to sell due to his near-invincible nature. He tends to succeed on the smaller screen like most DC characters. I have never seen\u00a0<em>Smallville<\/em>\u00a0so I have no opinion either way with it. I couldn&#8217;t stomach\u00a0<em>Lois &amp; Clark<\/em> because it focused on the most boring elements while making Teri Hatcher an undeserved star.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Superman may not be my favorite comic book character (I lean toward Batman) and the only title I buy with him present is\u00a0<em>Justice League<\/em> but I respect and understand his place in pop-culture history: Superman was the first big, successful superhero.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This month is the 75th anniversary of Superman debuting. After his first appearance in\u00a0Action Comics\u00a0#1, this character slowly grew to be an ubiquitous presence in Western (mostly American) culture. I went with another montage based upon my favorite images: reruns &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maggipicayune.derr.io\/wp\/2013\/06\/03\/this-header-is-more-like-it\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12426","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maggipicayune.derr.io\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12426","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maggipicayune.derr.io\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maggipicayune.derr.io\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maggipicayune.derr.io\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maggipicayune.derr.io\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12426"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/maggipicayune.derr.io\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12426\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12427,"href":"https:\/\/maggipicayune.derr.io\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12426\/revisions\/12427"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maggipicayune.derr.io\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maggipicayune.derr.io\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maggipicayune.derr.io\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}