{"id":141,"date":"2007-04-22T22:27:07","date_gmt":"2007-04-23T06:27:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/?p=141"},"modified":"2007-04-22T22:36:00","modified_gmt":"2007-04-23T06:36:00","slug":"more-puttin-em-in-the-longbox-reviews","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/?p=141","title":{"rendered":"More puttin&#8217;-&#8217;em-in-the-longbox reviews"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As the books go into the vaults, a couple notes:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>Moon Knight<\/em> #9 (Huston, Suayan, D&#8217;Armata): Man do I want to like this.  I was a fan of the Moench\/Sienkiewicz <em>Moon Knight<\/em>, and I know that the character has great potential to explore non-powered vigilante stories that can&#8217;t be done with characters that, oh, sell books &#8211; you know Batman, Captain America, those guys.  Huston seems not to realize that because this is almost certainly an impulse buy only book that you&#8217;ve got to grab readers amazingly quickly and tease them with enough continuity to keep them coming back.  I do think that&#8217;s what he&#8217;s trying to do, but I think it works better with complete stories.  The art&#8217;s a little muddy for me, and I&#8217;m having some trouble following who&#8217;s who as well.  But I keep hoping it&#8217;ll grow on me.<\/li>\n<li><em>Love and Rockets <\/em>#9 (Los Bros. Hernandez) I&#8217;ve read <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/BBC\/mouldering06.html#m06-g\">some magical realism<\/a> since I&#8217;ve been reading Love and Rockets, and I understand a little better what Beto is up to in his &#8220;Julio&#8217;s Day&#8221; stories.  I still don&#8217;t enjoy them much, but I understand them better.  I find those stories offputting just by style.  They&#8217;re not for me, but as far as I can tell, well executed and certainly nicely drawn.  Xamie, on the other hand, is always enjoyable to me.  I love his clean art, and even stories where little happens have their moments.  I&#8217;ll admit that I enjoy getting a hold of a collection and taking big bites, but I can live with the nibbles that come out in the monthlies.  These stories are catching up with friends.<\/li>\n<li><em>The Spirit<\/em> #5 (Cooke, Bone, Stewart) No, I don&#8217;t know what happened to #4.  I&#8217;m looking.  (I do know, it sold out at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hideho.com\/\">Hi De Ho<\/a> and wasn&#8217;t on my pull list; I&#8217;ve fixed half that problem and expect to fix the other shortly).  These guys know how to do the episodic thing right to grab new readers.  The Mortez subplot from #3 is still cooking in the background, but we spend this issue meeting the new Mr. Carrion and Julia and enjoying a Spirit-based advertisement parody (Manga-styled).  All nice nods to Eisner&#8217;s <em>Spirit<\/em>, and Cooke, Bone and Stewart make it fun and engaging for new readers.  <strong>And <\/strong>there&#8217;s another issue out that I haven&#8217;t read and should be able to lay hands on shortly.  This comic is a must.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the books go into the vaults, a couple notes: Moon Knight #9 (Huston, Suayan, D&#8217;Armata): Man do I want to like this. I was a fan of the Moench\/Sienkiewicz Moon Knight, and I know that the character has great potential to explore non-powered vigilante stories that can&#8217;t be done with characters that, oh, sell [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-141","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-comics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=141"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}