{"id":4595,"date":"2015-10-09T22:21:27","date_gmt":"2015-10-10T03:21:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jamesrichardson.net\/jtalk\/?p=4595"},"modified":"2020-04-19T22:10:20","modified_gmt":"2020-04-20T03:10:20","slug":"the-2015-nyc-comic-con","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jamesrichardson.net\/jtalk\/2015\/10\/09\/the-2015-nyc-comic-con\/","title":{"rendered":"The 2015 NYC Comic Con"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/jamesrichardson.net\/jtalk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/12068502_10207976322504579_356328329805234694_o.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-4596\" src=\"http:\/\/jamesrichardson.net\/jtalk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/12068502_10207976322504579_356328329805234694_o.jpg\" alt=\"12068502_10207976322504579_356328329805234694_o\" width=\"450\" height=\"253\" srcset=\"http:\/\/jamesrichardson.net\/jtalk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/12068502_10207976322504579_356328329805234694_o.jpg 1920w, http:\/\/jamesrichardson.net\/jtalk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/12068502_10207976322504579_356328329805234694_o-300x169.jpg 300w, http:\/\/jamesrichardson.net\/jtalk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/12068502_10207976322504579_356328329805234694_o-1024x576.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The annual family trip to Nerd Mecca was great! I am always amazed that the wife and kids still indulge me in our yearly ritual. The best part of Comic Con this year was that I got to see the pilot episodes for new series like Supergirl, Lucifer, Containment, Ash vs the Evil Dead, and Jessica Jones. The 2015-16 TV season is going to be amazing for comic nerds like myself.<\/p>\n<p>Everyone of the pilots, with the exception of Supergirl, left me excited for the new television season. Supergirl looked great from a visual and special effects perspective but the tone of the show seems too &#8220;Ally McBeal&#8221; for my tastes. In contrast, Jessica Jones and Containment took a much darker direction by focusing on flawed characters who are forced to come to grips with serious and deadly challenges. No so much the case for the &#8220;girl of steel&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The annual family trip to Nerd Mecca was great! I am always amazed that the wife and kids still indulge me in our yearly ritual. The best part of Comic Con this year was that I got to see the pilot episodes for new series like Supergirl, Lucifer, Containment, Ash vs the Evil Dead, and &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/jamesrichardson.net\/jtalk\/2015\/10\/09\/the-2015-nyc-comic-con\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The 2015 NYC Comic Con&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[305,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4595","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-comics-scifi","category-lifestyle"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jamesrichardson.net\/jtalk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4595","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/jamesrichardson.net\/jtalk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/jamesrichardson.net\/jtalk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jamesrichardson.net\/jtalk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jamesrichardson.net\/jtalk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4595"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/jamesrichardson.net\/jtalk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4595\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5102,"href":"http:\/\/jamesrichardson.net\/jtalk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4595\/revisions\/5102"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jamesrichardson.net\/jtalk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4595"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jamesrichardson.net\/jtalk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4595"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jamesrichardson.net\/jtalk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}