{"id":2628,"date":"2010-01-15T07:00:23","date_gmt":"2010-01-15T12:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onceuponageek.com\/?p=2628"},"modified":"2010-01-14T23:54:46","modified_gmt":"2010-01-15T04:54:46","slug":"hitlers-response-to-marvels-offer-to-return-dc-ring-comics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/onceuponageek.com\/wordpress\/2010\/01\/15\/hitlers-response-to-marvels-offer-to-return-dc-ring-comics\/","title":{"rendered":"Hitler&#8217;s Response to Marvel&#8217;s Offer to Return DC Ring Comics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"Blackest Night Rings\" src=\"http:\/\/onceuponageek.com\/images\/blackestnightrings.jpg\" alt=\"Blackest Night Rings\" width=\"500\" height=\"274\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Marvel Comics made a surprising offer to comic book retailers earlier this week.\u00a0 Marvel announced that retailers may trade unsold copies of DC&#8217;s <em>Blackest Night<\/em> &#8220;ring&#8221; comics for an extremely rare <em>Siege <\/em>#3 Deadpool variant.\u00a0 For more information on this story, check out <a title=\"Marvel to Retailers on Newsarama\" href=\"http:\/\/www.newsarama.com\/comics\/Marvel-Retailers-DC-100113.html\">Newsarama<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Now we go to our man in the field for his opinion.\u00a0 Hitler, what do you think?\u00a0 &#8230; Wait a minute &#8230; Seriously?\u00a0 Hitler?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">While I don&#8217;t agree with several things Hitler says here (and who would want to agree with Hitler anyway, right?), it is funny as heck.\u00a0 My thanks to Vanessa G from <a title=\"Girls-Gone-Geek\" href=\"http:\/\/girls-gone-geek.com\/\">Girls-Gone-Geek.com<\/a> for sending this my way.\u00a0 Hilarious!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><code><object width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/W8KbNag962A&#038;hl=en_US&#038;fs=1&#038;\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><\/object><\/code><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">If you can&#8217;t view the embedded video above, please <a title=\"Hilter on the Marvel Variant\" href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=W8KbNag962A\">click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"sharedaddy sd-sharing-enabled\"><div class=\"robots-nocontent sd-block sd-social sd-social-icon-text sd-sharing\"><h3 class=\"sd-title\">Tell the world about ONCE UPON A GEEK:<\/h3><div class=\"sd-content\"><ul><li class=\"share-twitter\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"sharing-twitter-2628\" class=\"share-twitter sd-button share-icon\" href=\"http:\/\/onceuponageek.com\/wordpress\/2010\/01\/15\/hitlers-response-to-marvels-offer-to-return-dc-ring-comics\/?share=twitter\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to share on 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