{"id":149,"date":"2005-09-17T19:42:01","date_gmt":"2005-09-18T02:42:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stevegerber.wpengine.com\/?p=149"},"modified":"2005-09-17T19:42:01","modified_gmt":"2005-09-18T02:42:01","slug":"the-way-of-all-flash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevegerber.com\/?p=149","title":{"rendered":"The Way of All-Flash"},"content":{"rendered":"

Over the past few weeks while I’ve been sick, I’ve found myself oddly drawn back to “the old stuff” in comics. I’ve been rereading my crumbling paperback copy of *All in Color for a Dime*, for instance, and spending time perusing the *All Star Comics* Archive Editions — has DC published the final volume yet? — and rereading some DC and even Marvel Silver Age reprint editions like *Fantastic Four* #1 and *Showcase* #28.<\/p>\n

I’m not sure yet what it is, but there’s something I’m looking for in these books — something lacking in almost every writer’s approach to comics today (self included, or I wouldn’t be searching) — but something that has *absolutely nothing* to do with nostalgia.<\/p>\n

I think it may have to do with energy and magic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Over the past few weeks while I’ve been sick, I’ve found myself oddly drawn back to “the old stuff” in comics. I’ve been rereading my crumbling paperback copy of *All in Color for a Dime*, for instance, and spending time perusing the *All Star Comics* Archive Editions — has DC published the final volume yet? […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":41,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-149","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegerber.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegerber.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegerber.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegerber.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/41"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegerber.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=149"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevegerber.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegerber.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegerber.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegerber.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}