{"id":172,"date":"2007-07-28T16:53:36","date_gmt":"2007-07-29T00:53:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/?p=172"},"modified":"2007-07-28T16:53:36","modified_gmt":"2007-07-29T00:53:36","slug":"into-the-long-box","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/?p=172","title":{"rendered":"Into the Long Box"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What a good week.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Love and Rockets #20\n<ul>\n<li>Saying bad things about Love and Rockets is kind of hard to do.\u00c2\u00a0 The art&#8217;s beautiful and the characters are all familiar and well written.\u00c2\u00a0 It&#8217;s strange to be writing that nothing happening is the biggest down side of this thing, after just finishing saying how watching nothing happen in Captain America is a good time.\u00c2\u00a0 I really should go to the graphic novels.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Grendel: Behold The Devil #0\n<ul>\n<li>Another 80&#8217;s weakness of mine is Matt Wagner&#8217;s Grendel.\u00c2\u00a0 This is a preview for a series due out in November featuring the Hunter Rose Grendel &#8211; that is the original Grendel &#8211; perhaps revealed through the research of the Christine Spar Grendel.\u00c2\u00a0 The framer here is as nice an intro to Hunter as one could expect.\u00c2\u00a0 I even jumped and I&#8217;m a veteran Grendel reader.\u00c2\u00a0 Nice lead in.\u00c2\u00a0 I&#8217;ll look for the series.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Black Summer #1\n<ul>\n<li>Warren Ellis&#8217;s new superhero project for Avatar gets off to a cracking start.\u00c2\u00a0 The preliminaries set the stage nicely for this issue&#8217;s confrontation between Tom Noir and the forces stirred up bu John Horus&#8217;s assassination of the President.\u00c2\u00a0 It&#8217;s a fast-paced episode where we hit the ground running with Tom.\u00c2\u00a0 There&#8217;s also just the right amount of backfill to tease the Seven Guns&#8217; history.\u00c2\u00a0 This is a rarity:a first issue that one would have to buy the next issue.\u00c2\u00a0 I&#8217;m committed already, but I think readers who pick this up will have a hard time putting it down.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Doktor Sleepless\n<ul>\n<li>Warren Ellis is touting this as his next effort in the vein of Transmetropolitan, and I&#8217;m interested in that.\u00c2\u00a0 There&#8217;s a lot in here that people who read his blog (guilty as charged) have heard snippets of and his vision for the title is broad and exciting.\u00c2\u00a0 He&#8217;s aggressively tying the print material to an evolving wiki and other web resources and generally trying to create an example of a new media.\u00c2\u00a0 I&#8217;ll be sticking around for it, but I&#8217;m a little concerned that the first issue wasn&#8217;t terribly effective as a narrative.\u00c2\u00a0 It&#8217;s clear that our man Sleepless is up to something, but it&#8217;s very unclear what he&#8217;s up to or why I care.\u00c2\u00a0 OK, <strong>I <\/strong>care because it&#8217;s Warren Ellis writing as a futurist, but why someone else cares is open to question.\u00c2\u00a0 I&#8217;ll be around to find out, though.<\/li>\n<li>Sig file fodder: &#8220;Electricity can only be replenished by whisky.\u00c2\u00a0 This is actual physics.\u00c2\u00a0 Do not argue with me.\u00c2\u00a0 I am a Doktor.&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>And I haven&#8217;t even gotten to Crecy yet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What a good week. 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