{"id":28645,"date":"2021-07-19T14:57:30","date_gmt":"2021-07-19T19:57:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=28645"},"modified":"2021-07-20T17:28:27","modified_gmt":"2021-07-20T22:28:27","slug":"what-he-said-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2021\/07\/19\/what-he-said-2\/","title":{"rendered":"What He Said"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Author Treacher&#8217;s current <a href=\"https:\/\/jimtreacher.substack.com\/p\/antifa-which-is-just-plain-fa-literally?r=17yh5&#038;utm_campaign=post&#038;utm_medium=web&#038;utm_source=twitter\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener\">Column?  Newsletter?<\/a> offers a bit of musing on comic book movies passing their expiration date again:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>But a Black Widow movie? After they already killed her off? It just feels like an afterthought. Maybe it would\u2019ve been a huge hit if it had come out in 2016, which is apparently the year it\u2019s set. But now? Nah.<\/p>\n<p>I wonder if the Marvel movies will have the same problem the comics had back in the \u201870s, after being such a commercial and cultural phenomenon in the \u201860s. Once the novelty wore off, the brand name alone wasn\u2019t enough to keep fans forking over their dough. Pumping out titles with second- and third-string characters didn\u2019t cut it. The magic was gone. You could still find some gems here and there, but the golden age was over.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>You know, I kind of felt that after the Avengers story arc ended with <em>Avengers: Endgame<\/em>.  I have not yet seen the most recent Spiderman movie.  I only saw <em>Guardians of the Galaxy Volume 2<\/em> this month because the resort we stayed at let us borrow the movie for free to watch in our room.  <em>The Black Widow<\/em>?  <em>Doctor Strange II<\/em>?  I don&#8217;t think I&#8217;ll see those in the theaters either.  Nor am I hastening to get a streaming service to watch Loki, Paul Bettany, or any of the Star Wars properties over there.<\/p>\n<p>Is it because I&#8217;ve grown up?  Unlikely.  This weekend, I stopped at the local game shop <a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2021\/07\/19\/book-report-firefly-the-official-companion-volume-one-and-firefly-the-official-companion-volume-two2006\/\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener\">as I mentioned<\/a>, and I bought a stack of one dollar comics (but not Sarah Hoyt&#8217;s <em>Barbarella<\/em> since it was not in stock).  Given what I have seen from modern Marvel comics that I bought at the Comic Cave for a buck each back in the day, I&#8217;m probably best served by buying older comics with more elaborate stories than simple stories with Comic Art.<\/p>\n<p>(Ace also <a href=\"http:\/\/ace.mu.nu\/archives\/394809.php\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener\">offers commentary<\/a> on the movie&#8217;s box office performance.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Author Treacher&#8217;s current Column? Newsletter? offers a bit of musing on comic book movies passing their expiration date again: But a Black Widow movie? After they already killed her off? It just feels like an afterthought. Maybe it would\u2019ve been a huge hit if it had come out in 2016, which is apparently the year [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28645","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life","category-movies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28645","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28645"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28645\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28654,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28645\/revisions\/28654"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28645"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}