{"id":843,"date":"2007-10-01T05:42:07","date_gmt":"2007-10-01T05:42:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.revolutionsf.com\/revblogs\/geekcurmudgeon\/2007\/10\/01\/hey-kids-comics\/"},"modified":"2012-08-17T05:19:42","modified_gmt":"2012-08-17T05:19:42","slug":"hey-kids-comics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.revolutionsf.com\/revblogs\/geekcurmudgeon\/2007\/10\/01\/hey-kids-comics\/","title":{"rendered":"Hey Kids!  Comics!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Chris Mautner in his <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.newsarama.com\/2007\/09\/30\/everyones-a-critic-a-call-for-papers\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"postlink\">Everyone\u2019s A Critic<\/a> blog issued this challenge:<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<table width=\"90%\" cellspacing=\"1\" cellpadding=\"3\" border=\"0\" align=\"center\">\n<tr>\n<td><span class=\"genmed\"><b>Quote:<\/b><\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"quote\">Sometime within the month of October, I want you, assuming you blog about comics regularly, or hell, even if you don\u2019t, to write about a long-lost comic book, series, graphic novel, artist, writer or whatever that you feel is criminally underrated or ignored (preferably the latter). The more obscure the better. Genre doesn\u2019t matter, nor does if the book comes from your collection or not, though I would like to see folks pick something a little out of their comfort zones for this.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<p><span class=\"postbody\"><\/p>\n<p>He goes on to say that he will &quot;link to any and all who decide to rise to the challenge.&quot;  There are no prizes.  Just &quot;the satisfaction that comes with providing the Internet with some intelligent critical discourse.&quot;  Though Mautner does hint at the possibility of some sort of small prize.<\/p>\n<p>His whole impetus:<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<table width=\"90%\" cellspacing=\"1\" cellpadding=\"3\" border=\"0\" align=\"center\">\n<tr>\n<td><span class=\"genmed\"><b>Quote:<\/b><\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"quote\">I want someone to make me jump out of my chair, into my car and go pouring through the back bins of my local shop. I want an excuse to go vainly searching through Alibris.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<p><span class=\"postbody\"><\/p>\n<p>What a great idea.  So everyone start thinking&#8230; <\/p>\n<p>Expect my entry sometime this month.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chris Mautner in his Everyone\u2019s A Critic blog issued this challenge: Quote: Sometime within the month of October, I want you, assuming you blog about comics regularly, or hell, even if you don\u2019t, to write about a long-lost comic book, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.revolutionsf.com\/revblogs\/geekcurmudgeon\/2007\/10\/01\/hey-kids-comics\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-843","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v15.2.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.revolutionsf.com\/revblogs\/geekcurmudgeon\/2007\/10\/01\/hey-kids-comics\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Hey Kids! 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