{"id":126,"date":"2003-07-03T19:30:56","date_gmt":"2003-07-03T23:30:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shaviro.com\/Blog\/?p=126"},"modified":"2003-07-03T19:30:56","modified_gmt":"2003-07-03T23:30:56","slug":"planetarybatman-night-on-earth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shaviro.com\/Blog\/?p=126","title":{"rendered":"Planetary\/Batman: Night on Earth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was alerted by <a href=\"http:\/\/boingboing.net\/2003_07_01_archive.html#200443513\" title=\"Boing Boing: A Directory of Wonderful Things\">Boing Boing<\/a>  to Warren Ellis&#8217;s new issue of <em>Planetary<\/em>, which is also a Batman (!) comic: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.warrenellis.com\/planetary.html\"><em>Planetary\/Batman: NIght on Earth<\/em><\/a> (illustrated by John Cassaday). This is the most hilarious pisstake on the Caped Crusader since <a href=\"http:\/\/www.grant-morrison.com\/\">Grant Morrison<\/a> presented him as a schizophrenic unable to resist the logic of a deliriously postmodern Joker in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0930289560\/dhalgrenstevensh\"><em>Arkham Asylum<\/em><\/a>. In Ellis&#8217; vision, a passage through a series of alternate Earths, with alternate Gotham Cities, gives us glimpses of a variety of Batman incarnations (Batmen? Batmans?), from raging psychopathic vigilante to empathetic New Ager (well, almost). It&#8217;s ridiculous to the point of nearly being sublime. Another direct hit for the incredibly prolific Mr. Ellis. (Did I mention that I am an obsessive reader of his blog, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.diepunyhumans.com\">Die Puny Humans<\/a>, as well?)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was alerted by <a href=\"http:\/\/boingboing.net\/2003_07_01_archive.html#200443513\" title=\"Boing Boing: A Directory of Wonderful Things\">Boing Boing<\/a>  to Warren Ellis&#8217;s new issue of <em>Planetary<\/em>, which is also a Batman (!) comic: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.warrenellis.com\/planetary.html\"><em>Planetary\/Batman: NIght on Earth<\/em><\/a> (illustrated by John Cassaday). This is the most hilarious pisstake on the Caped Crusader since <a href=\"http:\/\/www.grant-morrison.com\/\">Grant Morrison<\/a> presented him as a schizophrenic unable to resist the logic of a deliriously postmodern Joker in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0930289560\/dhalgrenstevensh\"><em>Arkham Asylum<\/em><\/a>. In Ellis&#8217; vision, a passage through a series of alternate Earths, with alternate Gotham Cities, gives us glimpses of a variety of Batman incarnations (Batmen? Batmans?), from raging psychopathic vigilante to empathetic New Ager (well, almost). It&#8217;s ridiculous to the point of nearly being sublime. Another direct hit for the incredibly prolific Mr. Ellis. (Did I mention that I am an obsessive reader of his blog, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.diepunyhumans.com\">Die Puny Humans<\/a>, as well?)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-126","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shaviro.com\/Blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shaviro.com\/Blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shaviro.com\/Blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shaviro.com\/Blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shaviro.com\/Blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=126"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shaviro.com\/Blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shaviro.com\/Blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shaviro.com\/Blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shaviro.com\/Blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}