{"id":3375,"date":"2009-12-07T07:46:35","date_gmt":"2009-12-07T11:46:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/?p=3375"},"modified":"2009-12-04T14:24:37","modified_gmt":"2009-12-04T18:24:37","slug":"in-the-core-marvel-universe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/?p=3375","title":{"rendered":"In the Core Marvel Universe&#8230;."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ComicsAlliance recently reviewed <i>The Punisher #11<\/i>, in which The Punisher suffers a messy death and is subsequently turned into FrankCastleStein.  A reader replied that this concept was rather too ridiculous for &#8220;the core Marvel Universe.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Chris Sims (who also writes the wonderful <a href=\"http:\/\/www.the-isb.com\/\">Chris&#8217;s Invincible Super-Blog<\/a>) responded by listing some of the <em>other<\/em> things that have been done in &#8220;the core Marvel Universe.&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In the Core Marvel Universe, a man who got his powers from the wizard Merlin and fought vampires that were shot out of a cannon on the moon by Dracula (who came to earth in a magic pirate ship), has a twin sister who was kidnapped by an interdimensional television executive and later had her mind transferred to the body of a Japanese assassin who could make a knife out of psychic powers.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>From this list, I&#8217;m assuming that one of the perks of working for Marvel is all of the LSD you want.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.comicsalliance.com\/2009\/11\/24\/true-stories-of-the-core-marvel-universe\/\">Link<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ComicsAlliance recently reviewed The Punisher #11, in which The Punisher suffers a messy death and is subsequently turned into FrankCastleStein. A reader replied that this concept was rather too ridiculous for &#8220;the core Marvel Universe.&#8221; Chris Sims (who also writes the wonderful Chris&#8217;s Invincible Super-Blog) responded by listing some of the other things that have [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3375"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3375"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3375\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3432,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3375\/revisions\/3432"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}