{"id":194,"date":"2007-09-09T18:49:40","date_gmt":"2007-09-10T02:49:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/?p=194"},"modified":"2007-09-09T18:49:40","modified_gmt":"2007-09-10T02:49:40","slug":"into-the-longbox-reviews","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/?p=194","title":{"rendered":"Into the longbox reviews"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>Jonah Hex #23:  Another perfectly reasonably executed western tale.  The thing about <cite>Jonah Hex<\/cite> that&#8217;s going to kill the series is that there&#8217;s no story.  Every month something bad happens to some one, Jonah&#8217;s involved (and a cipher) and he rides off.  There&#8217;s no inkling that there&#8217;s a story behind it all, or that anything different is going to happen in the book.  It&#8217;s  <cite>Gunsmoke<\/cite> with slower moving pictures.  To an extent, that&#8217;s fine, but I may have seen enough <cite>Gunsmoke<\/cite>.<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Doktor Sleepless #2: Now, things are moving along.  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/?p=172\">I found issue #1 not to be very enticing<\/a>, but this issue&#8217;s worth it for the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Transmetropolitan\">Transmetropolitan<\/a>-esque commercial on page 1 alone.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nMore importantly, Ellis and Rodriguez are starting to build a complex world up where it seems not even our protagonist understands it all.  Seeing a villain&#8217;s face doesn&#8217;t hurt the dramatic tension level, either.  There&#8217;s still a lot of scene-setting and exposition, but the creepy, incongrous bits are starting to burrow into my subconscious and look for things to connect to.  I expect I&#8217;ll be surprised by what they find.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nReading <cite>Doktor Sleepless<\/cite> is starting to feel like reading <cite>The Invisibles<\/cite> did; like Grant Morrison was distilling a mad worldview into pictures and beaming it into your brain.  That beam, and I suspect Ellis&#8217;s and Rodriguez&#8217;s, was like a locked missle.  After a certain point escaping it was impossible.  Issue 2 may be that point for Doktor Sleepless.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nI don&#8217;t really understand how Ellis and Rodriguez picked up so much speed between the end of issue #1 and the end of issue #2, but it&#8217;s got the ugly feel of an exponential curve.  If this title keeps getting stronger at this rate, the first trade paperback will be classified as a munition.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jonah Hex #23: Another perfectly reasonably executed western tale. The thing about Jonah Hex that&#8217;s going to kill the series is that there&#8217;s no story. Every month something bad happens to some one, Jonah&#8217;s involved (and a cipher) and he rides off. There&#8217;s no inkling that there&#8217;s a story behind it all, or that anything [&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-194","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\/194","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=194"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}