{"id":1293,"date":"2004-12-10T17:20:44","date_gmt":"2004-12-10T17:20:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/2004\/12\/10\/crimefighting_c\/"},"modified":"2024-11-29T16:33:33","modified_gmt":"2024-11-29T21:33:33","slug":"crimefighting_c","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/2004\/12\/10\/crimefighting_c\/","title":{"rendered":"Crimefighting Club Queen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Click to see a larger version of the cover\" href=\"http:\/\/www.trustysidekicks.com\/img\/dazzler1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/img\/dazzler1.jpg\" alt=\"Dazzler #1\" width=\"150\" height=\"234\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"8\" \/><\/a>In one of those occasional cross-overs of nelly\/nerdy impulses, I just bought the entire run of <i><a title=\"The mutant Kylie Minogue\" href=\"http:\/\/uncannyxmen.net\/db\/spotlight\/showquestion.asp?faq=10&amp;fldAuto=67\">Dazzler<\/a>,<\/i> including another 4-issue Beast\/Dazzler mini-series that I hadn\u2019t know about before. I read Dazzler for quite a while in my formative years, without it even occurring to me why I might be drawn to a disco-singing mutant who just wanted to be left alone to be a glamorous roller-skating pop star without all the hassle of being different. (Who knew?) As if that weren\u2019t gay enough, she was constantly plagued by a blonde Asgardian bitch who was jealous of her career. It was totally the disco <i>Dynasty<\/i> of the Marvel Universe.<\/p>\n<p>But since the poor dear apparently isn\u2019t considered such a hot ticket with the typical comic-book set, the whole thing cost about as much as a couple of trades of Wolverine of something suitably macho. Once the box of the original issues arrives, expect more exciting ads to appear in the sidebars.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In one of those occasional cross-overs of nelly\/nerdy impulses, I just bought the entire run of Dazzler, including another 4-issue Beast\/Dazzler mini-series that I hadn\u2019t know about before. I read Dazzler for quite a while in my formative years, without it even occurring to me why I might be drawn to a disco-singing mutant who &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/2004\/12\/10\/crimefighting_c\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Crimefighting Club Queen&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1293","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ultracomics"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1293","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1293"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1293\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76924,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1293\/revisions\/76924"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}