{"id":161,"date":"2007-06-17T20:56:55","date_gmt":"2007-06-18T04:56:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/?p=161"},"modified":"2007-06-17T21:10:48","modified_gmt":"2007-06-18T05:10:48","slug":"two-in-one","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/?p=161","title":{"rendered":"Two In One"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was feeling kind of crappy this weekend and spent most of Saturday just vegging out.  To help with that, I picked up Volume 2 of The Essential <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Marvel_Two-In-One\">Marvel Two In One<\/a>, and really a better time is tough to imagine.<\/p>\n<p>Two in One was one of those great 70&#8217;s titles that was hanging out there on the edge of the Marvel Universe, but that didn&#8217;t have to be <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Fantastic_four\">The World&#8217;s Greatest Comic Magazine<\/a> every month.  It wasn&#8217;t exactly the Marvel flagship.  It had two important things going for it &#8211; the creators didn&#8217;t take it more seriously than a comic book, and lots of great creators were thrown an issue or two as a chance to prove themselves.  It also starred <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Thing_%28comics%29\">the Thing<\/a>, one of Marvel&#8217;s most over-the-top heroes.<\/p>\n<p>The result is a charming set of fun stories and general tour around the characters and situations in the Marvel Universe.  Several series had their loose ends tied up in MTIO and a few actual important Marvel Universe events happened in there, too.  Mostly,  though, they&#8217;re fun single-issue or two-issue stories with a charismatic and visually appealing star that make it a great way to waste an afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>A pleasurable guilty pleasure.  (To get a feel for the series, I recommend  Mark O&#8217;English&#8217;s amazingly complete and remarkably entertaining <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oelib.com\/mtio\/\">Ever-Lovin&#8217; Blue-Eyed Home Page<\/a>.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was feeling kind of crappy this weekend and spent most of Saturday just vegging out. To help with that, I picked up Volume 2 of The Essential Marvel Two In One, and really a better time is tough to imagine. Two in One was one of those great 70&#8217;s titles that was hanging out [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-161","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-comics","category-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=161"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}