{"id":15346,"date":"2016-03-18T17:16:35","date_gmt":"2016-03-19T00:16:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/?p=15346"},"modified":"2016-03-18T17:18:01","modified_gmt":"2016-03-19T00:18:01","slug":"the-new-prez-comic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/2016\/03\/18\/the-new-prez-comic\/","title":{"rendered":"the new prez comic"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"prezcover2016\"\u00c2\u00a0 Don’t know if you can call this one good or not, just as I’m not sure you can say the original series was either… but there it is<\/a>.\u00c2\u00a0 No, it is different in many ways to the 1970s rendition…<\/p>\n

\"prezin1976number4\"\u00c2\u00a0 Leaving aside the shift in gender of the young presidential candidate, I ponder the nature of the Native American FBI director under Prez Rickard<\/span> — in the same way I found myself thinking “hm” when I walked past what was a Village People Tribute about to enter into a gay club and seeing the Indian — no.\u00c2\u00a0 That wouldn’t fly today unless it were identified as coming from then…<\/p>\n

Beyond that, I suppose there might be a subtext in the “vampire in the white house” plot line, but ultimately it does land in… oh… they’re getting a little silly and not bothering too much with social commentary.<\/p>\n

The art for the new series bugs me — not really a fan of it.\u00c2\u00a0 As per modern day political commentary — well, there’s a hacktivist collective in the Guy Fawkes masks, the industry honchos with faces in symbols — in that ugly but I suppose necessary computer infographic style.\u00c2\u00a0 But I have to suspend some disbelief in believing (even for the purpose of satire) that this youtube video of her at work in a state of disarray to become “corndog girl” would become viral…<\/p>\n

… And, as always, if you think the tv and movie industries are always cycling about to recycle old concepts… try the comic book industry.\u00c2\u00a0 And… wait a minute.\u00c2\u00a0 One question:\u00c2\u00a0 Why?<\/p>\n

\"billandted2015\"\u00c2\u00a0 The nature of the comic book publisher “Boom”, which publishes… er… the new adventures of the Peanuts gang.<\/p>\n

The problem with this comic book is… I guess you can say it harkens back to the television cartoon — and in Bill and Ted history there are the movies, the Saturday morning cartoon, and the comic book from (“never even watched the movies, and I was a cynical angry punk rocker who had to learn to love the two happy metal heads”) Evan Dorkin.\u00c2\u00a0 So… I suppose this comic book would be what the Bill and Ted comic book would have been had it ended up as Dorkin’s vehicle?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u00c2\u00a0 Don’t know if you can call this one good or not, just as I’m not sure you can say the original series was either… but there it is.\u00c2\u00a0 No, it is different in many ways to the 1970s rendition… \u00c2\u00a0 Leaving aside the shift in gender of the young presidential candidate, I ponder the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15346","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15346","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15346"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15346\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15352,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15346\/revisions\/15352"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}