{"id":7337,"date":"2012-05-07T18:40:48","date_gmt":"2012-05-07T08:40:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/?p=7337"},"modified":"2012-05-07T18:41:05","modified_gmt":"2012-05-07T08:41:05","slug":"free-comic-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/?p=7337","title":{"rendered":"Free Comic Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/comics001.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-7338\" title=\"comics001\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/comics001.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"630\" height=\"473\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/comics001.jpg 630w, http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/comics001-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 630px) 100vw, 630px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t read many comic books any more.\u00a0 I used to be a pretty avid reader when I was a kid and then for a brief time during the early 2000s but nowadays, I&#8217;ve whittled down to just a couple &#8211; I keep up with the new trades of <em>Fables<\/em> and <em>The Walking Dead<\/em> and thats about it.\u00a0 These are usually released in 6-8 month intervals so I&#8217;m normally only picking up comics once or twice a year at most.<\/p>\n<p>Having watched the recent <em>Avengers<\/em> film, it got me pining for some Marvel superhero stuff, the kind that I used to read as a kid.\u00a0 Sadly, I couldn&#8217;t find any in my home.\u00a0 I&#8217;m not sure what happened but somewhere along the way when I moved houses in Brisbane, I must have chucked out all my old Marvel stuff.\u00a0 I didn&#8217;t have a single Marvel comic left!<\/p>\n<p>I went to the comic store on the weekend and was greeted with a line out the door.\u00a0 As it happened, I had inadvertantly gone during Free Comic Day.\u00a0 It was worth the wait though as I got a dozen old Marvel comics for a buck each, four free comics and a healthy discount on four Joss Whedon <em>Astonishing X-Men <\/em>trades.<\/p>\n<p>Most of the Marvel single issue comics have pretty terrible storylines but I like the artwork.\u00a0 As for the Whedon stuff, its like reading the storyboards for the <em>Avengers<\/em> film.\u00a0 The quips, wisecracks and one liners are almost exactly the same.\u00a0 In short, exactly what I was looking for.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/comics0021.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-7340\" title=\"comics002\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/comics0021.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"630\" height=\"473\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/comics0021.jpg 630w, http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/comics0021-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 630px) 100vw, 630px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t read many comic books any more.\u00a0 I used to be a pretty avid reader when I was a kid and then for a brief time during the early 2000s but nowadays, I&#8217;ve whittled down to just a couple &#8211; I keep up with the new trades of Fables and The Walking Dead and &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[77,1252],"class_list":["post-7337","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","tag-comics","tag-joss-whedon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7337","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7337"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7337\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7343,"href":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7337\/revisions\/7343"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}