{"id":4301,"date":"2010-09-30T06:00:48","date_gmt":"2010-09-30T10:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onceuponageek.com\/?p=4301"},"modified":"2010-10-10T11:47:03","modified_gmt":"2010-10-10T15:47:03","slug":"the-avengers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/onceuponageek.com\/wordpress\/2010\/09\/30\/the-avengers\/","title":{"rendered":"Avengers: Earth&#8217;s Mightiest Heroes animated series on Oct. 20"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Marvel launches their new <em>Avengers <\/em>animated series on Wednesday, October 20 on Disney XD!\u00a0 Here are a couple sneak-peek videos.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4303  aligncenter\" title=\"The Avengers: Earth's Mightest Heroes\" src=\"http:\/\/onceuponageek.com\/images\/avengers-cartoon.jpg\" alt=\"The Avengers: Earth's Mightest Heroes\" width=\"550\" height=\"733\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Avengers promo (30 seconds)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"480\" height=\"385\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/Epas-MrW7so?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Ant-Man is cool! (6 minutes)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"480\" height=\"385\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/hFiqQD-uKow?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">For more information, <a title=\"The Avengers: Earth's Mightest Heroes website\" href=\"http:\/\/disney.go.com\/xd\/avengers\/cds\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">visit the official website for the cartoon<\/a>.  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I've been an avid collector of Avengers comic books since the early 1990s.\u00a0 I love this team and I love these characters.\u00a0 The animated\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;superheroes&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes DVD volume 1","src":"https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/onceuponageek.com\/images\/AvengersVolume1DVD.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":4958,"url":"http:\/\/onceuponageek.com\/wordpress\/2011\/05\/04\/review-avengers-dvd\/","url_meta":{"origin":4301,"position":1},"title":"REVIEW: Avengers Earth&#8217;s Mightiest Heroes on DVD Vol. 1 &#038; 2","date":"May 4, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"I wasn't sure what to expect when I sat down to watch The Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes vol. 1 & 2 on DVD.\u00a0 The Avengers are one of my all-time favorite superhero teams.\u00a0 I have nearly 400 issues of Avengers comics, so I consider myself a reasonably dedicated fan.\u00a0 Iron\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;comic books&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"The Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/onceuponageek.com\/images\/avengers_cartoon_04.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":2970,"url":"http:\/\/onceuponageek.com\/wordpress\/2010\/03\/11\/new-avengers-titles-on-the-horizon\/","url_meta":{"origin":4301,"position":2},"title":"New Avengers Titles on the Horizon","date":"March 11, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"Siege will be over before we know it.\u00a0 With it brings the cancellation of all the current Avengers titles.\u00a0 Beginning in May, Marvel will relaunch the entire Avengers franchise with some big shake-ups.\u00a0 There will be several one-shots and mini-series, along with four ongoing books.\u00a0 I've outlined below what we\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;comic books&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"Avengers Tease - Captain America","src":"https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/onceuponageek.com\/images\/avengers_tease1.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":2635,"url":"http:\/\/onceuponageek.com\/wordpress\/2010\/01\/19\/im-a-misfit-avengers-fan\/","url_meta":{"origin":4301,"position":3},"title":"I&#8217;m a Misfit Avengers Fan","date":"January 19, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"Apparently my love of the Avengers is broken.\u00a0 I've been reading the Marvel comic Avengers faithfully since 1993, however, my favorite eras of the team are those reviled by long-time Avengers fans. When I started reading the book, the classic line-up with Captain America, Iron Man, and Thor didn't exist.\u00a0\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;comic books&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"Avengers Assemble by Steve Epting and Tom Palmer, signed also by Stan Lee","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/onceuponageek.com\/images\/avengers_epting_palmer.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":3629,"url":"http:\/\/onceuponageek.com\/wordpress\/2010\/06\/14\/spent-time-reading-comics-this-past-week\/","url_meta":{"origin":4301,"position":4},"title":"Spent Time Reading Comics This Past Week","date":"June 14, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"In addition to blogging about comics this past week, I actually read some too! I\u2019ve literally got stacks and stacks of comics I\u2019m behind on reading. I got through over 60 comics and two digest this past week.\u00a0 For some reason I had a hankerin' for Marvel, so many of\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;comic books&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/onceuponageek.com\/images\/phoneranger1.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":1498,"url":"http:\/\/onceuponageek.com\/wordpress\/2009\/08\/03\/spent-time-reading-comics-this-past-weekend\/","url_meta":{"origin":4301,"position":5},"title":"Spent Time Reading Comics This Past Weekend","date":"August 3, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"Instead of blogging about comics, this weekend I actually read some!\u00a0 I've literally got stacks and stacks of comics I'm behind on reading.\u00a0 All together I flew through 44 comics this weekend.\u00a0 I really enjoyed immersing myself in the comic book world. Here are the titles I read and some\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;comic books&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/onceuponageek.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4301"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/onceuponageek.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/onceuponageek.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onceuponageek.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onceuponageek.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4301"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/onceuponageek.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4301\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4365,"href":"http:\/\/onceuponageek.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4301\/revisions\/4365"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/onceuponageek.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onceuponageek.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onceuponageek.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}