{"id":1128,"date":"2005-09-16T18:11:00","date_gmt":"2005-09-16T22:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=1128"},"modified":"2021-07-16T08:30:15","modified_gmt":"2021-07-16T12:30:15","slug":"welcome-to-the-party","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=1128","title":{"rendered":"Welcome to the Party!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stallonezone.com\/z091605walkingdead.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.stallonezone.com\/z091605walkingdead.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><span style=\"font-family: arial;\">Way back on <\/span><b style=\"font-family: arial;\">November 16, 2003<\/b><span style=\"font-family: arial;\">, I posted <\/span><b>an item<\/b><span style=\"font-family: arial;\"> about the <\/span><b style=\"font-family: arial;\">first issue<\/b><span style=\"font-family: arial;\"> of a <\/span><b style=\"font-family: arial;\">comic<\/b><span style=\"font-family: arial;\"> that I&#8217;d read and fell in love with. That comic, <\/span><b style=\"font-family: arial;\">The Walking Dead<\/b><span style=\"font-family: arial;\">, was one of the freshest <\/span><b style=\"font-family: arial;\">comics <\/b>that I&#8217;d read in years. It instantly made my &#8220;pull list.&#8221;<\/div>\n<p class=\"bodytext\" style=\"font-family: arial; text-align: justify;\">A few days later, I posted that the first issue was quickly selling out along with <b>a link<\/b> to an interview with <b>Robert Kirkman<\/b>. In<b> February of 2004<\/b>, <b>The Walking Dead<\/b> <b>was already<\/b> my <b>favorite monthly comic<\/b>!<\/p>\n<p class=\"bodytext\" style=\"font-family: arial; text-align: justify;\">In <b>April of 2004<\/b>, I <b>reported<\/b> that <b>Tony Moore<\/b>, the regular artist on <b>The Walking Dead <\/b>had decided to leave and that <b>Charlie Adlard<\/b> would be taking over with issue<b> 6<\/b>. The quality of <b>The Walking Dead<\/b> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stallonezone.com\/z041105.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><b>didn&#8217;t miss a beat<\/b><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"bodytext\" style=\"font-family: arial; text-align: justify;\">With the recent success of <b>comic books<\/b> turned into <b>movies<\/b>, <b> Jeb Whitlock<\/b> of <b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.joblo.com\/index.php?id=8623\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">JoBlo.com<\/a><\/b> suggests that <b>The Walking Dead<\/b> get the chance.<\/p>\n<p class=\"bodytext\" style=\"font-family: arial; text-align: justify;\">All I can say is, &#8220;Welcome to the party, <b>Jeb<\/b>!&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Way back on November 16, 2003, I posted an item about the first issue of a comic that I&#8217;d read<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[58,56,53,62],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1128","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-comics","category-horror","category-zombies","comments-off"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1128","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/912"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1128"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1128\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27919,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1128\/revisions\/27919"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}