{"id":155,"date":"2007-05-29T21:10:59","date_gmt":"2007-05-30T05:10:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/?p=155"},"modified":"2007-05-29T21:10:59","modified_gmt":"2007-05-30T05:10:59","slug":"going-in-the-longbox","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/?p=155","title":{"rendered":"Going in the longbox"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>Will Eisner&#8217;s The Spirit #4 and #6\n<ul>\n<li>Still good to the last drop.\u00c2\u00a0 And it is Eisner&#8217;s Spirit, not really Cook, Bone, and Stewart&#8217;s.\u00c2\u00a0 They&#8217;re doing a remarkable job channeling Eisner and delivering all the ingredients in a singular genre &#8211; Spirit stories.\u00c2\u00a0 Even the visual tropes are Eisner, updated for the 21st century &#8211; #4 is really sharp in this regard, both the Spirit and Ebony and the Spirit and Dolan have a scenes where the dialog works because of the visual.\u00c2\u00a0 A great book; if you found the Spirit reprints off-putting because of the 40&#8217;s trappings and stereotypes, give this a try.<\/li>\n<li>Sig Fodder: &#8220;I mean we have to draw the line.\u00c2\u00a0 No dairy, peanut free, donuts make you fat &#8230; fine.\u00c2\u00a0 But <strong>the coffee <\/strong>&#8211; all I&#8217;m asking is that my coffee taste like <strong>coffee, <\/strong>not some new age banana split for fitness freaks.&#8221; &#8212; Dolan with his finger on the pulse of the key to police work, #6<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Captain America #26\n<ul>\n<li>Brubaker seems to be trying to hold his story together with the storm of Civil War boiling all around him.\u00c2\u00a0 It&#8217;s heavy going at places, but though the deck&#8217;s pitching some, it remains enjoyable.\u00c2\u00a0 Bucky&#8217;s resolve at the end of the issue is the first wrong note for that character, and that worries me.\u00c2\u00a0 I&#8217;ll stick around a while yet.<\/li>\n<li>Sig Fodder: &#8220;&#8230; some of his science is not <strong>science<\/strong> if you get my meaning&#8221; &#8212; <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Arnim_Zola\">Arnim Zola<\/a> on <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Doctor_Doom\">Victor Von Doom<\/a> (the attribution alone makes me a little tingly.)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Batman and the Mad Monk\n<ul>\n<li>This is the second of Matt Wagner&#8217;s excellent retellings of Golden Age Batman storylines in the framework of Miller&#8217;s Batman: Year One.\u00c2\u00a0 If you&#8217;re a comics fan from the 80&#8217;s (like me) that&#8217;s an irresistable package.\u00c2\u00a0 Even if you&#8217;re not, this is great stuff.\u00c2\u00a0 Wagner&#8217;s plotting is clear and strong, and he&#8217;s got a really good feel for Batman.\u00c2\u00a0 He communicates Batman&#8217;s obsession without making him inhuman and builds up a vary plausible world about him.\u00c2\u00a0 It&#8217;s an joy for long underwear fans everywhere.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Will Eisner&#8217;s The Spirit #4 and #6 Still good to the last drop.\u00c2\u00a0 And it is Eisner&#8217;s Spirit, not really Cook, Bone, and Stewart&#8217;s.\u00c2\u00a0 They&#8217;re doing a remarkable job channeling Eisner and delivering all the ingredients in a singular genre &#8211; Spirit stories.\u00c2\u00a0 Even the visual tropes are Eisner, updated for the 21st century &#8211; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-155","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155","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=155"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}