{"id":3042,"date":"2013-10-31T16:26:39","date_gmt":"2013-10-31T20:26:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepulp.net\/yellowedperils\/?p=3042"},"modified":"2016-08-22T17:00:49","modified_gmt":"2016-08-22T21:00:49","slug":"the-cw-plans-the-avenger-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepulp.net\/yellowedperils\/2013\/10\/31\/the-cw-plans-the-avenger-series\/","title":{"rendered":"The CW plans &#8216;The Avenger&#8217; series"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thepulp.net\/PulpWiki\/images\/wiki-images\/avengerpulp.jpg?resize=115%2C160&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"115\" height=\"160\" alt=\"The Avenger\" class=\"alignright\" \/>TV network <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cwtv.com\" target=\"_blank\">The CW<\/a> has announced plans for a series based (loosely, I might add) on the <a href=\"http:\/\/thepulp.net\/PulpWiki\/StreetandSmith\">Street and Smith<\/a> pulp <em><a href=\"http:\/\/thepulp.net\/PulpWiki\/AvengerThe\">The Avenger<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>According to a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.deadline.com\/2013\/10\/neal-baer-conde-nast-sell-drama-to-the-cw-inspired-by-the-avenger-pulp-series\/\" target=\"_blank\">story at Deadline: Hollywood<\/a>, the proposed series centers on <strong>Alice Benson<\/strong>, who thanks to &#8220;genetic bio-hacking&#8221; allows her to alter her appearance.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve always thought that <strong>The Avenger<\/strong> would be one of the best candidates for updating as a TV series. I don&#8217;t have a problem changing <strong>Richard Benson<\/strong> to Alice Benson. But, as it always seems, who needs to use the original story when you can just turn it into whatever you want (a &#8220;biopunk version,&#8221; in this instance).<\/p>\n<p>Hat-tip to <strong>Fred Kuentz<\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TV network The CW has announced plans for a series based (loosely, I might add) on the Street and Smith pulp The Avenger. According to a story at Deadline: Hollywood, the proposed series centers on Alice Benson, who thanks to &#8220;genetic bio-hacking&#8221; allows her to alter her appearance. I&#8217;ve always thought that The Avenger would [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","inline_featured_image":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_has_post_settings":[],"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"At Yellowed Perils: The CW plans 'The Avenger' series. #pulpmags http:\/\/wp.me\/p2qgXO-N4","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},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_wp_rev_ctl_limit":""},"categories":[16,6,7,11,34],"tags":[],"hashtags":[],"class_list":["post-3042","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-announcements","category-movies-tv-radio","category-news","category-pulps","category-quick-links"],"pp_statuses_selecting_workflow":false,"pp_workflow_action":"current","pp_status_selection":"publish","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2qgXO-N4","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepulp.net\/yellowedperils\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3042","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepulp.net\/yellowedperils\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepulp.net\/yellowedperils\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepulp.net\/yellowedperils\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepulp.net\/yellowedperils\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3042"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/thepulp.net\/yellowedperils\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3042\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5192,"href":"https:\/\/thepulp.net\/yellowedperils\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3042\/revisions\/5192"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepulp.net\/yellowedperils\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3042"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepulp.net\/yellowedperils\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3042"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepulp.net\/yellowedperils\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3042"},{"taxonomy":"hashtags","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepulp.net\/yellowedperils\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtags?post=3042"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}