{"id":16919,"date":"2013-03-10T22:19:49","date_gmt":"2013-03-11T05:19:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=16919"},"modified":"2013-03-10T22:19:49","modified_gmt":"2013-03-11T05:19:49","slug":"follow-up-orson-scott-card-superman-story-put-on-indefinite-hold","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=16919","title":{"rendered":"Follow-up: Orson Scott Card &#8220;Superman&#8221; story put on indefinite hold"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amptoons.com\/blog\/2013\/02\/13\/why-i-oppose-the-petition-to-have-orson-scott-card-canned-by-dc-comics\/\">Last month, I posted<\/a> about the controversy over science fiction writer (and member of NOM board of directors) Orson Scott Card being commissioned to write a couple of Superman stories for DC Comics.<\/p>\n<p>The cartoonist slated to draw the stories, Chris Sprouse, <a href=\"http:\/\/comicsbeat.com\/chris-sprouse-steps-away-from-orson-scott-cards-superman-story\/\">has withdrawn from the project<\/a>, writing:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The media surrounding this story reached the point where it took away from the actual work, and that\u2019s something I wasn\u2019t comfortable with. My relationship with DC Comics remains as strong as ever and I look forward to my next project with them.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>DC said that &#8220;we will re-solicit the story at a later date when a new artist is hired.&#8221; I don&#8217;t think anyone will be surprised if no new artist is ever found.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last month, I posted about the controversy over science fiction writer (and member of NOM board of directors) Orson Scott Card being commissioned to write a couple of Superman stories for DC Comics. The cartoonist slated to draw the stories, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=16919\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16919","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cartooning-comics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16919","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16919"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16919\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16921,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16919\/revisions\/16921"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16919"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16919"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16919"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}