{"id":782,"date":"2009-04-02T00:50:21","date_gmt":"2009-04-02T04:50:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onceuponageek.com\/?p=782"},"modified":"2009-04-02T00:46:44","modified_gmt":"2009-04-02T04:46:44","slug":"april-fools-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/onceuponageek.com\/wordpress\/2009\/04\/02\/april-fools-day\/","title":{"rendered":"April Fools&#8217; Day!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright\" title=\"Vibe: Rebirth\" src=\"http:\/\/onceuponageek.com\/images\/vibe_r001.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"175\" height=\"270\" \/>I hope you enjoyed yesterday&#8217;s April Fools&#8217; Day gag about <em><strong>Vibe: Rebirth<\/strong><\/em>.\u00a0 This bit of fun was brought to you by <a title=\"Speed Force\" href=\"http:\/\/speedforce.org\/2009\/04\/vibe-rebirth\/\">Kelson<\/a>, <a title=\"Crimson Lightning\" href=\"http:\/\/thefastestmanalive.blogspot.com\/2009\/03\/vibe-rebirth.html\">Dixon<\/a>, <a title=\"Fortress of Baileytude\" href=\"http:\/\/www.fortressofbaileytude.com\/?p=673\">Michael<\/a>, <a title=\"Justice League Detroit\" href=\"http:\/\/justiceleaguedetroit.blogspot.com\/2009\/04\/geoff-johns-and-ethan-van-sciver-talk.html\">Frank<\/a>, and <a title=\"Once Upon a Geek\" href=\"http:\/\/onceuponageek.com\/2009\/04\/01\/geoff-johns-and-ethan-van-sciver-talk-vibe-rebirth\/\">myself<\/a>!\u00a0 You can read about this and other comic book-themed April Fools&#8217; 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This bit of fun was brought to you by: Frank - Idol-Head of Diabolu (the Martian Manhunter blog), Atom: The Mighty Might blog, ...nurgh..., and Justice League Detroit Dan - It's a Dan's\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;comic books&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"April Fools Judd Winick JLA image","src":"https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/onceuponageek.com\/images\/juddwinick_jla.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":743,"url":"http:\/\/onceuponageek.com\/wordpress\/2009\/04\/01\/geoff-johns-and-ethan-van-sciver-talk-vibe-rebirth\/","url_meta":{"origin":782,"position":1},"title":"Geoff Johns and Ethan Van Sciver talk &#8216;Vibe: Rebirth&#8217;","date":"April 1, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"From Newsarama: DC Comics announced on Tuesday that a mini-series in December entitled Vibe: Rebirth will re-introduce the once-dead character Paco Ramone, bringing Vibe back for good into the fictional world he left more than 20 years ago. Unlike other comic book deaths - even Superman went up, up and\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;comic books&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/onceuponageek.com\/images\/vibe_rebirth.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":1410,"url":"http:\/\/onceuponageek.com\/wordpress\/2009\/07\/23\/podcasts-world-war-z-flash-rebirth\/","url_meta":{"origin":782,"position":2},"title":"Podcasts: World War Z, Flash: Rebirth","date":"July 23, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"Just a heads-up, I appeared on a recent podcast of THE UNIQUE GEEK.\u00a0 This time out the crew was reviewing the zombie book World War Z by Max Brooks.\u00a0 On the podcast was Jon (The Unique Geek), Cary, Widge (NeedCoffee.com), Ron, and myself.\u00a0 I'm not normally a fan of zombie\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;books&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":931,"url":"http:\/\/onceuponageek.com\/wordpress\/2009\/04\/30\/reviews-flash-rebirth-1-and-zero-hour-mini-series\/","url_meta":{"origin":782,"position":3},"title":"REVIEWS: Flash Rebirth #1 and Zero Hour mini-series","date":"April 30, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"Michael Bailey (of the Views from the Longbox podcast) and I recently teamed-up to record our thoughts about Flash Rebirth #1 and the 1994 mini-series Zero Hour. Our Flash Rebirth #1 review went about 27 minutes and can be found by clicking here.\u00a0 For the next five months or so,\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;comic books&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":3120,"url":"http:\/\/onceuponageek.com\/wordpress\/2010\/04\/01\/judd-winick-eic\/","url_meta":{"origin":782,"position":4},"title":"Judd Winick Named DC Comics Editor-in-Chief","date":"April 1, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"Here is something to ruin your day.\u00a0 DC Comics announced that Judd Winick has been promoted to Editor-in-Chief.\u00a0 You may recall that back in February Dan DiDio was promoted to Co-Publisher of DC Comics.\u00a0 Well, this left an opening in the Editor-in-Chief position.\u00a0 Here is the announcement from the DC\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;comic books&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"Judd Winick, DC Comics Editor-in-Chief, with the JLA by Jim Lee","src":"https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/onceuponageek.com\/images\/juddwinick_jla.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":2254,"url":"http:\/\/onceuponageek.com\/wordpress\/2009\/11\/24\/reviews-views-longbox\/","url_meta":{"origin":782,"position":5},"title":"REVIEWS: Flash Rebirth, Dragon*Con 2009, and The Year in Comics 1992 and 1993","date":"November 24, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"I've appeared on several podcasts in the past few months, but have been horribly negligent about giving them a shout-out here.\u00a0 These were all podcasts hosted by my good buddy Michael Bailey (of Views from the Longbox and From Crisis to Crisis).\u00a0 He's been kind enough to invite me to\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;comic books&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/www.fortressofbaileytude.com\/Pictures\/Views_Logo_550.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/onceuponageek.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/782"}],"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=782"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/onceuponageek.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/782\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":784,"href":"http:\/\/onceuponageek.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/782\/revisions\/784"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/onceuponageek.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onceuponageek.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=782"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onceuponageek.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}