{"id":18976,"date":"2003-02-18T05:09:10","date_gmt":"2003-02-18T10:09:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/?p=18976"},"modified":"2015-04-06T19:42:20","modified_gmt":"2015-04-06T23:42:20","slug":"the-birth-of-overtkill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2003\/02\/the-birth-of-overtkill\/","title":{"rendered":"The birth of Over(t)kill"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The character known as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/shocka\/mcs1ok.php\">Overtkill<\/a> in today's review from <i>Spawn<\/i> Series 1 started life as a character named \"Overkill,\" created live (on video) by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/?p=5609\">Rob Liefeld<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/yo\/mctodd.php\">Todd McFarlane<\/a>, under direction from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/yo\/mlh2_sl.php\">Stan \"The Man\" Lee<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/WaJhpqAWjuE?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/center><\/p>\n<p>That's from the <i>Comic Book Greats<\/i> VHS series, which was advertised in the comics all the time back then. Listen to how he makes fun of them!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2003\/02\/mcs1ok6.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2003\/02\/mcs1ok6-228x300.jpg\" title=\"click to embiggen\" width=\"228\" height=\"300\" class=\"aligncenter\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Still doesn't explain why the name had to be changed to Over<b>T<\/b>kill, though.<\/p>\n<div class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Posts\"><H5>&lt;i&gt;And now, some more OAFEry:&lt;\/i&gt;<\/H5><ul class=\"entry-meta\"><li class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Post\"><a title=\"Commando Spawn addendum\" href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2022\/09\/commando-spawn-addendum\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Commando Spawn addendum<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Post\"><a title=\"Flippin' Through Previews - April '07\" href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2007\/04\/flippin-through-previews-april-07\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Flippin' Through Previews - April '07<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Post\"><a title=\"Here's to Sam Elliott!\" href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2007\/01\/list-of-actors-in-more-than-one-comic-book-movie-role\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Here's to Sam Elliott!<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Post\"><a title=\"i.119 Gunslinger Spawn addendum\" href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2005\/04\/i-119-gunslinger-spawn-addendum\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">i.119 Gunslinger Spawn addendum<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Post\"><a title=\"McFarlane Toys at Toy Fair 2002\" href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2002\/10\/mcfarlane-toys-at-toy-fair-2002\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">McFarlane Toys at Toy Fair 2002<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The character known as Overtkill in today's review from Spawn Series 1 started life as a character named \"Overkill,\" created live (on video) by Rob Liefeld and Todd McFarlane, under direction from Stan \"The Man\" Lee: That's from the Comic &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2003\/02\/the-birth-of-overtkill\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[41,13,42],"tags":[139],"class_list":["post-18976","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-addendums","category-mcfarlane","category-videos","tag-spawn"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18976","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18976"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18976\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18985,"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18976\/revisions\/18985"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18976"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18976"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18976"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}