{"id":13281,"date":"2010-08-29T13:51:36","date_gmt":"2010-08-29T19:51:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/?p=13281"},"modified":"2010-08-27T12:09:07","modified_gmt":"2010-08-27T18:09:07","slug":"the-sunday-punch-joker-and-lex","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/2010\/08\/the-sunday-punch-joker-and-lex\/","title":{"rendered":"The Sunday Punch: Joker and Lex"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The above is from the back pages of Superman\/Batman #75. A team-up comics geeks, like us, know better as World’s Finest<\/a>.<\/p>\n

But that’s all a mere warm-up to the book’s glorious main event, Brian Azzarello and Lee Bermejo’s loving tribute to Calvin and Hobbes starring Lex Luthor and the Joker.<\/a> I can’t begin to describe the joy this two-page gem brought me. Not only does Bermejo go completely outside his usual creative box by wonderfully paying homage to the style of Bill Watterson, but Azzarello accomplishes the equally impressive feat of mirroring Watterson’s trademark sense of humor while also staying true to the two iconic villains’ personalities and histories. I loved this strip. Absolutely loved it. For Calvin and Hobbes <\/em>fans, it’s alone reason to lay down the five bucks<\/a>. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Reviewer Dan Williams is not fooling. As you can see above you, those two pages are fried gold. We’re gonna run to our local shop<\/a> and pick up a copy of Superman\/Batman #75.<\/p>\n

via august in whitechapel, uk comics<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

click to embiggen The above is from the back pages of Superman\/Batman #75. A team-up comics geeks, like us, know better as World’s Finest. But that’s all a mere warm-up to the book’s glorious main event, Brian Azzarello and Lee Bermejo’s loving tribute to Calvin and Hobbes starring Lex Luthor and the Joker. I can’t […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[49,52],"tags":[242,3159,3158,3156,3160,3157,637,2702,485,3162,3161],"class_list":["post-13281","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-comics","category-just-freaking-neat","tag-batman","tag-brian-azzarello","tag-calvin-hobbes","tag-joker","tag-lee-bermejo","tag-lex-luthor","tag-parody","tag-sunday-punch","tag-superman","tag-supermanbatman-75","tag-worlds-finest"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13281","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13281"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13281\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13284,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13281\/revisions\/13284"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13281"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}