{"id":5195,"date":"2011-05-26T11:45:38","date_gmt":"2011-05-26T15:45:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/specialcollections\/?p=5195"},"modified":"2017-07-11T12:02:45","modified_gmt":"2017-07-11T16:02:45","slug":"thugscomics-listen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/copycscmcnair\/thugscomics-listen\/","title":{"rendered":"The Thugs of Old Comics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>by Wesley McNair<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n\t<audio id=\"wp_mep_1\"      controls=\"controls\" preload=\"none\"  >\r\n\t\t\r\n\t\t<source src=\"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/copycscmcnair\/files\/2010\/03\/The-thugs-of-old-comics-edited-mp3.mp3\" type=\"audio\/mp3\" \/>\r\n\t\t\r\n\t\t\r\n\t\t\r\n\t\t\r\n\t\t\r\n\t<\/audio>\r\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\">\r\njQuery(document).ready(function($) {\r\n\t$('#wp_mep_1').mediaelementplayer({\r\n\t\tm:1\r\n\t\t\r\n\t\t,features: ['playpause','current','progress','duration','volume','tracks','fullscreen']\r\n\t\t,audioWidth:400,audioHeight:30\r\n\t});\r\n});\r\n<\/script>\r\n\n<h4><em>The Thugs of Old Comics<\/em><\/h4>\n<p>At first the job is a cinch, like they said.<br \/>\nThey manage to get the bank teller a couple of times<br \/>\nin the head and blow the vault door so high<br \/>\nit never comes down. Money bags line the shelves<br \/>\ninside like groceries. They are rich, richer<br \/>\nthan they can believe. Above his purple suit the boss<br \/>\nis grinning half outside of his face.<br \/>\nTwo goons are taking the dough in their arms<br \/>\nlike their first women. For a minute nobody sees<br \/>\nthe little thug with the beanie is sweating drops<br \/>\nthe size of hot dogs and pointing<br \/>\nstraight up. There is a blue man flying<br \/>\ndown through the skylight and landing with his arms<br \/>\ncrossed. They exhale their astonishment<br \/>\ninto small balloons. &#8220;What the,&#8221; they say,<br \/>\n&#8220;What the,&#8221; watching their bullets drop<br \/>\noff his chest over and over. Soon he begins to talk<br \/>\nabout the fight against evil, beating them half to death<br \/>\nwith his fists. Soon they are picking themselves up<br \/>\nfrom the floor of the prison. Out the window<br \/>\nSuperman is just clearing a tall building<br \/>\nand couldn&#8217;t care less when they shout<br \/>\nhis name through the bars. &#8220;We&#8217;re trapped!<br \/>\nWe got no chance!&#8221; the say, tightening their teeth.<\/p>\n<p>thinking, like you, how it always gets down<br \/>\nto the same old shit: no fun, no dough,<br \/>\nno power to rise out of their bodies.<\/p>\n<p><!--themify_builder_static--><!--\/themify_builder_static--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hear &#8220;The Thugs of Old Comics&#8221; read by Wesley McNair<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":668,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[659,577,302,226],"tags":[394,223,519],"builder_content":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/copycscmcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5195"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/copycscmcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/copycscmcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/copycscmcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/668"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/copycscmcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5195"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/copycscmcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5195\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12930,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/copycscmcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5195\/revisions\/12930"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/copycscmcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/copycscmcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/copycscmcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}