{"id":996,"date":"2016-10-03T01:01:22","date_gmt":"2016-10-03T11:01:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.henchmenonline.com\/?p=996"},"modified":"2016-10-02T12:13:35","modified_gmt":"2016-10-02T22:13:35","slug":"achilles-and-the-tek-squirrels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.henchmenonline.com\/?p=996","title":{"rendered":"Achilles and the Tek-Squirrels"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When I first started this storyline back in 2014, I had never heard of Marvel&#8217;s <strong>Squirrel Girl<\/strong> character.\u00c2\u00a0 As the story progressed, I gradually became aware of the character, but I figured she was a minor player in the Marvel universe.\u00c2\u00a0 Now as my story approaches the climax, I hear rumor that Squirrel Girl is going to become a major character and may even appear in a movie.<\/p>\n<p>I only mention this because there are always some folks who will accuse you of\u00c2\u00a0 &#8216;ripping off&#8217; ideas, and trying to capitalize on the popularity of someone else&#8217;s work, and I actually considered changing into some other animal midway through the story.\u00c2\u00a0 Obviously, I decided to stay the course and continue on with the squirrels.\u00c2\u00a0 I&#8217;m not ripping anybody off, and I don&#8217;t think Marvel can copyright using squirrels in a comic&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>So here we are.\u00c2\u00a0 <strong>Achilles and the Tek-Squirrels<\/strong> would actually be a cool (and strange)\u00c2\u00a0 name for a band, and if anyone out there wants to use it, you&#8217;re welcome to it.\u00c2\u00a0 If the band takes off and does great, I hope you&#8217;ll give a mention to <strong>Henchmen for Hire<\/strong>, but I won&#8217;t begrudge you the use of the name.\u00c2\u00a0 I hope all those Squirrel Girl fans out there feel the same way&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I first started this storyline back in 2014, I had never heard of Marvel&#8217;s Squirrel Girl character.\u00c2\u00a0 As the story progressed, I gradually became aware of the character, but I figured she was a minor player in the Marvel universe.\u00c2\u00a0 Now as my story approaches the climax, I hear rumor that Squirrel Girl is [&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":[3,130,223],"tags":[196,11,54,16,115,230,15,231,14,10],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henchmenonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/996"}],"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=996"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.henchmenonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/996\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henchmenonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=996"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henchmenonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=996"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henchmenonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=996"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}