{"id":16868,"date":"2009-03-02T21:23:21","date_gmt":"2009-03-03T02:23:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/?p=16868"},"modified":"2014-12-11T22:19:04","modified_gmt":"2014-12-12T03:19:04","slug":"in-which-i-am-more-than-a-little-confusing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/2009\/03\/02\/in-which-i-am-more-than-a-little-confusing\/","title":{"rendered":"In Which I Am More Than a Little Confusing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A review by John Seavey over at <a href=\"http:\/\/fraggmented.blogspot.com\/\"><i>fraggmented<\/i><\/a> takes a look at the Scarecrow stories I wrote for Marvel Comics more than three decades ago and finds them wanting.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/DeadofNight11.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/DeadofNight11-199x300.jpg\" alt=\"DeadofNight11\" width=\"199\" height=\"300\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-489\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/DeadofNight11-199x300.jpg 199w, https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/DeadofNight11.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 199px) 100vw, 199px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Luckily, Seavey is so hilarious in his description of the plot that I couldn&#8217;t help but laugh.<\/p>\n<p>Besides&#151;when  I wrote those comics, I was just a tadpole. He&#8217;s probably right about everything!<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s my favorite  part of his review:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>And finally we get &#8220;The Scarecrow.&#8221; No, no, not that Scarecrow. No, not that Scarecrow either. This is an entirely different Scarecrow, who is &#8230; um &#8230; he lives in a painting, and there&#8217;s this cult that hates him, or maybe he hates them, and he&#8217;s getting revenge on them for, um &#8230; something, but they want the painting, and there&#8217;s a demon, and this guy keeps vanishing, and he&#8217;s got the power to &#8230; do stuff, I guess, and &#8230; it&#8217;s all actually more than a little confusing.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>There&#8217;s more, which you can find <a href=\"http:\/\/fraggmented.blogspot.com\/2009\/03\/storytelling-engines-marvel-horror-part.html\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Whether he loved them or hated them is almost beside the point.  The fact that anyone is still bothering to think  about these at all so many years later is flattering enough!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A review by John Seavey over at fraggmented takes a look at the Scarecrow stories I wrote for Marvel Comics more than three decades ago and finds them wanting. Luckily, Seavey is so hilarious in his description of the plot that I couldn&#8217;t help but laugh. Besides&#151;when I wrote those comics, I was just a [&hellip;]<\/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":[18,20,29,136],"class_list":["post-16868","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-comics","tag-marvel-comics","tag-my-writing","tag-scarecrow"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16868","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16868"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16868\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16869,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16868\/revisions\/16869"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}