{"id":854,"date":"2015-10-04T22:05:15","date_gmt":"2015-10-05T05:05:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.certainly-strange.com\/?p=854"},"modified":"2016-07-11T09:18:05","modified_gmt":"2016-07-11T16:18:05","slug":"24-hour-comic-book-day-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.certainly-strange.com\/?p=854","title":{"rendered":"24 Hour Comic Book Day 2015"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Another 24 Hour Comic Book Day has come and gone. This year I made a Tom Stoppard &#8211; inspired comic about Star Trek TOS from the perspective of the Redshirts. I didn&#8217;t like that I didn&#8217;t create my own original world for this one, but I did like telling the Redshirts&#8217; story.<\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 480px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a title=\"Another 24 Comic Book Day has come and gone.\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/58189808@N03\/21958522145\/in\/dateposted-public\/\" data-flickr-embed=\"true\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/farm6.staticflickr.com\/5807\/21958522145_ac1630ccac_z.jpg\" alt=\"Another 24 Comic Book Day has come and gone.\" width=\"480\" height=\"640\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">&#8220;Ensigns Massey and O&#8217;Hara are Dead&#8221;<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><script src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" async=\"\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>And, similarly to how Stoppard&#8217;s Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead works so well precisely because everybody knows Hamlet and is familiar with all the tropes, I didn&#8217;t have to establish the Star Trek tropes because it is assumed that everybody already knows them.<\/p>\n<p>I also liked drawing the Redshirts as super huge beefy guys, because they do work the security detail after all!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another 24 Hour Comic Book Day has come and gone. This year I made a Tom Stoppard &#8211; inspired comic about Star Trek TOS from the perspective of the Redshirts. I didn&#8217;t like that I didn&#8217;t create my own original world for this one, but I did like telling the Redshirts&#8217; story. And, similarly to &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.certainly-strange.com\/?p=854\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;24 Hour Comic Book Day 2015&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-854","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-doodles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.certainly-strange.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/854","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.certainly-strange.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.certainly-strange.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.certainly-strange.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.certainly-strange.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=854"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.certainly-strange.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/854\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":855,"href":"http:\/\/www.certainly-strange.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/854\/revisions\/855"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.certainly-strange.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=854"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.certainly-strange.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=854"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.certainly-strange.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=854"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}