{"id":1193,"date":"2014-08-28T10:45:38","date_gmt":"2014-08-28T15:45:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/?p=1193"},"modified":"2014-08-28T10:45:38","modified_gmt":"2014-08-28T15:45:38","slug":"out-cnn-anchor-to-appear-in-marvel-comic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/archives\/1193","title":{"rendered":"Out CNN Anchor to appear in Marvel comic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>By John Mack Freeman<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Out CNN anchor Anderson Cooper is about to travel to one of the few places he has never been before: the Marvel Universe. In the upcoming issue of\u00a0<em>Black Widow\u00a0<\/em>(#12), Cooper will appear as himself. His show will serve as a catalyst for big changes in Black Widow&#8217;s world. His appearance comes after the writers at Marvel discovered that Cooper was a fan of the series. Via PinkNews:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"color: #222222;\">Writer Nathan Edmondson said: \u201cI found that [Anderson Cooper]\u00a0was a comic book fan and reader and shared some of my work with him over a year ago.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #222222;\">\u201cThen as we were strategizing upcoming issues of BLACK WIDOW I had this idea for an opportunity to involve him directly in the book.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #222222;\">\u201cHe was thrilled with the idea and we were thrilled that he was thrilled and so we set about setting the issue up and going through the steps for approval.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #222222;\">\u201cFortunately, it was all nice and easy and everybody involved was excited about the idea.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By John Mack Freeman Out CNN anchor Anderson Cooper is about to travel to one of the few places he has never been before: the Marvel Universe. In the upcoming issue of\u00a0Black Widow\u00a0(#12), Cooper will appear as himself. His show will serve as a catalyst for big changes in Black Widow&#8217;s world. His appearance comes [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":1194,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55,57],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1193","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-carousel","category-media-of-note"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1193","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1193"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1193\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1194"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}