{"id":171,"date":"2007-07-28T16:19:43","date_gmt":"2007-07-29T00:19:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/?p=171"},"modified":"2007-07-28T16:19:43","modified_gmt":"2007-07-29T00:19:43","slug":"into-the-longbox-last-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/?p=171","title":{"rendered":"Into the Longbox (last week)"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>Shazam The Monster Society of Evil, issue #4 of 4\n<ul>\n<li>Jeff Smith\u00c2\u00a0 has tied up his Captain Marvel series in fine form.\u00c2\u00a0 It&#8217;s still a little disconcerting to see old CM rendered in Bone style rather than looking like Fred MacMurray as he should.\u00c2\u00a0 Overall he captures the whimsy and adventure of the Fawcett Marvels&#8217; universe very well, dropping just enough grit in to keep it from being too dull without marring the place up.\u00c2\u00a0 And anything featuring 2 100-story columns of cockroaches is pretty awesome.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Captain America #28\n<ul>\n<li>I hate to keep reviewing CA issues by saying that the pot&#8217;s cooking, but the pot&#8217;s cooking.\u00c2\u00a0 It&#8217;s a great strength of Brubaker and Epting that this continuing simmer doesn&#8217;t feel like a slog.\u00c2\u00a0 It&#8217;s honestly envoyable to watch this all unfold.\u00c2\u00a0 It&#8217;ll be nice when something does come to a head, but this kind of stake out isn&#8217;t a chore.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Will Eisner&#8217;s The Spirit\n<ul>\n<li>Still great.\u00c2\u00a0 We get a nice bit of characterization of Satin that&#8217;s not news to any old Spirit fans, and a continuing slow burn of the Octagon\/Octopus plot.\u00c2\u00a0 Really the only place this could go is down.\u00c2\u00a0 And I&#8217;ll be there when it does.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shazam The Monster Society of Evil, issue #4 of 4 Jeff Smith\u00c2\u00a0 has tied up his Captain Marvel series in fine form.\u00c2\u00a0 It&#8217;s still a little disconcerting to see old CM rendered in Bone style rather than looking like Fred MacMurray as he should.\u00c2\u00a0 Overall he captures the whimsy and adventure of the Fawcett Marvels&#8217; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-171","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-comics","category-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171","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=171"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}