{"id":357,"date":"2009-03-15T19:12:40","date_gmt":"2009-03-15T23:12:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pidradio.com\/?p=357"},"modified":"2011-05-22T14:26:59","modified_gmt":"2011-05-22T18:26:59","slug":"pid-radio-31509-taylor-kent-who-watches-the-watchers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pidradio.com\/2009\/03\/15\/pid-radio-31509-taylor-kent-who-watches-the-watchers\/","title":{"rendered":"P.I.D. Radio 3\/15\/09:  Taylor Kent &#8212; Who Watches the Watchers?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thesnarkyavenger.com\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Snarky Avenger\" src=\"http:\/\/www.pidradio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/snarkyavenger2.jpg\" alt=\"Snarky Avenger\" align=\"right\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>WATCHMEN<\/em> opened #1 at the box office last weekend after months of delay due to a legal battle between Fox and Warner Brothers over the distribution rights.  No wonder; the book on which the film is based is the most influential graphic novel of the last 25 years.<\/p>\n<p>Author Alan Moore has also penned the graphic novels-turned-movies <em>V For Vendetta<\/em>, <em>From Hell<\/em>, and he created the ceremonial magician character John Constantine for the comic <em>Hellblazer<\/em>, which was adapted into the Keanu Reeves vehicle <em>Constantine<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Taylor Kent, AKA the Snarky Avenger, is a longtime fan and critic of comics and graphic novels, and he joined us this week to discuss the themes and influence of graphic novels on our culture.<\/p>\n<p>Links:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thesnarkyavenger.com\/\">Snark Infested Waters<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ustream.tv\/channel\/saturday-night-in-the-snark-cave\">Saturday Night in the Snark Cave<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.denofgeek.com\/movies\/147293\/comics_being_made_into_films.html\">Forthcoming movies based on graphic novels<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Note: P.I.D. Radio is proud to be part of the Revelations Radio Network, a collection of like minded Internet broadcasters. You\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll find all the shows collected at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.RevelationsRadioNetwork.com\/\">www.RevelationsRadioNetwork.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Click arrow on the player below to listen now, or right-click (control-click for Macs) the \u00e2\u20ac\u0153download\u00e2\u20ac\u009d link to save the mp3 file to your computer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WATCHMEN opened #1 at the box office last weekend after months of delay due to a legal battle between Fox and Warner Brothers over the distribution rights. No wonder; the&#8230; <a class=\"read-more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pidradio.com\/2009\/03\/15\/pid-radio-31509-taylor-kent-who-watches-the-watchers\/\">Read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","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":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[4],"tags":[145,147,144,146,79],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3FLs6-5L","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pidradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pidradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pidradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pidradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pidradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=357"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.pidradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pidradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pidradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pidradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}