{"id":3957,"date":"2012-08-16T11:41:51","date_gmt":"2012-08-16T15:41:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/?page_id=3957"},"modified":"2012-08-16T11:41:51","modified_gmt":"2012-08-16T15:41:51","slug":"thugs-of-old-comics","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/thugs-of-old-comics\/","title":{"rendered":"The Thugs of Old Comics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At first the job is a cinch like<br \/>\nthey said. They manage to get the bank teller<br \/>\na couple of times in the head and blow the vault door so high<br \/>\nit never comes down. Moneybags 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 hotdogs 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. \u201cWhat the,\u201d they say,<br \/>\n\u201cWhat the,\u201d 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 Superman<br \/>\nis just clearing a tall building and couldn\u2019t care less<br \/>\nwhen they shout his name through the bars. \u201cWe\u2019re trapped!<br \/>\nWe got no chance!\u201d they 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><em>-Wesley McNair<\/em><\/p>\n<!--themify_builder_content-->\n<div id=\"themify_builder_content-3957\" data-postid=\"3957\" class=\"themify_builder_content themify_builder_content-3957 themify_builder tf_clear\">\n    <\/div>\n<!--\/themify_builder_content-->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At first the job is a cinch like they said. They manage to get the bank teller a couple of times in the head and blow the vault door so high it never comes down. Moneybags line the shelves inside like groceries. They are rich, richer than they can believe. Above his purple suit the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2341,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"builder_content":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3957"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2341"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3957"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3957\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3958,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3957\/revisions\/3958"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}