{"id":77234,"date":"2013-08-17T10:00:30","date_gmt":"2013-08-17T15:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/?p=77234"},"modified":"2013-08-17T02:57:04","modified_gmt":"2013-08-17T07:57:04","slug":"torn-asks-cartoonist-todd-mcfarlane-about-the-feasibility-of-middle-earth-comics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2013\/08\/17\/77234-torn-asks-cartoonist-todd-mcfarlane-about-the-feasibility-of-middle-earth-comics\/","title":{"rendered":"TORn asks cartoonist Todd McFarlane about the feasibility of Middle-earth comics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"intro\"><figure id=\"attachment_77244\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-77244\" style=\"width: 195px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www-images.theonering.org\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/spawn200_cover_liefeld-195x300.jpg\" alt=\"Spawn by Todd McFarlane.\" width=\"195\" height=\"300\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-77244 no-lazyload\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/spawn200_cover_liefeld-195x300.jpg 195w, https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/spawn200_cover_liefeld-666x1024.jpg 666w, https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/spawn200_cover_liefeld-600x922.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/spawn200_cover_liefeld.jpg 994w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 195px) 100vw, 195px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-77244\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Spawn by Todd McFarlane.<\/figcaption><\/figure> Recently at the san Diego Comic-Con we had a brief chat with famed cartoonist Todd McFarlane and asked him whether he thought Tolkien&#8217;s work would work in comic book form.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s what Todd had to say:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>It&#8217;s an interesting question now&#8230; and here would be my answer: I think that Peter Jackson has now spoiled us. Right? So up until we actually got to see the movies &#8212; I thought in brilliant fashion &#8212; that we were just sort of imagining &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>I mean there&#8217;d been hints &#8230; but nothing that had stuck globally. So we [only] had our imagination, and now that Peter&#8217;s put that imagination into a sort of footprint, that if you put into comic book [then] to some extent a lot of people would be measuring back up [against the films].<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Check out the video below for the complete interview!<\/p>\n<p><center><iframe width=\"640\" height=\"480\" data-src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/jHOwDej5iXk\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" class=\"lazyload\" data-load-mode=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recently at the san Diego Comic-Con we had a brief chat with famed cartoonist Todd McFarlane and asked&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":28999,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[123,14,197,148,149,152],"tags":[330,2088,2103],"class_list":["post-77234","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-events-comiccon","category-events","category-fans","category-hobbit","category-lotr","category-tolkien","tag-comics","tag-middle-earth","tag-todd-mcfarlane"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/comic-con.gif","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1tLoH-k5I","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77234","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77234"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77234\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77248,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77234\/revisions\/77248"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28999"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}