{"id":1126,"date":"2017-06-19T01:01:09","date_gmt":"2017-06-19T11:01:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.henchmenonline.com\/?p=1126"},"modified":"2017-06-15T20:37:02","modified_gmt":"2017-06-16T06:37:02","slug":"foom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.henchmenonline.com\/?p=1126","title":{"rendered":"Foom!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;ve been reading <em>Henchmen for Hire<\/em> for any length of time, you know I have a fondness for sound effects.\u00c2\u00a0 I started really getting into comics towards the beginning of the Silver Age Marvel Lee-Kirby era, and of course this was also the time when Adam West&#8217;s Batman was one of the biggest things on TV.\u00c2\u00a0 I think all the ZAPs and POWs of the period sort of burned into my brain and became an essential part of the comic experience.<\/p>\n<p>Every now and then I&#8217;ll try to leave an image like the one in the first panel without any sound effect, and it will always look too dull and &#8216;quiet&#8217; to me.\u00c2\u00a0 It&#8217;s not for everybody, but I think the sound effects are part of the fun, and they lighten up action scenes that could be pretty heavy without them.\u00c2\u00a0 I enjoyed the <strong><em>Deadpool<\/em><\/strong> movie, but I found it a little too violent (I know it&#8217;s <strong>supposed<\/strong> to be like that,\u00c2\u00a0 but I still had a hard time with it) and I wonder if there were a few BAMs and WHAMs mixed in, it might have taken some of the hard edges off for me.\u00c2\u00a0 Like I said, not for everybody&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;ve been reading Henchmen for Hire for any length of time, you know I have a fondness for sound effects.\u00c2\u00a0 I started really getting into comics towards the beginning of the Silver Age Marvel Lee-Kirby era, and of course this was also the time when Adam West&#8217;s Batman was one of the biggest things [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[3,252],"tags":[11,54,107,16,13,115,258,15,14,10],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henchmenonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1126"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henchmenonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henchmenonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henchmenonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henchmenonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1126"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.henchmenonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1126\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henchmenonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henchmenonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henchmenonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}