{"id":207,"date":"2007-10-06T19:29:12","date_gmt":"2007-10-07T03:29:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/?p=207"},"modified":"2007-10-21T17:53:21","modified_gmt":"2007-10-22T01:53:21","slug":"into-the-longbox-reviews-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/?p=207","title":{"rendered":"Into the longbox reviews"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This will be a couple weeks&#8217; worth.  I&#8217;ve been busy&#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Jungle Girl #1 &#8211; OK, I&#8217;m only human.  It was a Frank Cho cover and it promised jungle girls and dinosaurs.  And it more or less delivered: it&#8217;s full of half-dressed women, dinosaurs, and a land that time forgot.  But I&#8217;ve seen a lot of lands that time forgot, and this one didn&#8217;t grab me as something new.  And Frank Cho&#8217;s only doing the covers.  And I have a full run of his <a href=\"http:\/\/www.comics.org\/covers.lasso?SeriesID=12305\">Shanna the She-Devil<\/a>.  I&#8217;ll pass on the rest of this.  (If you <strong>haven&#8217;t<\/strong> seen a land that time forgot, you might want to have a look and tell me what you think.)<\/li>\n<li>Uncle Sam and the Freedom Fighters #1 &#8211; Again, I have an uncontrollable weakness for the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Freedom_Fighters_%28comics%29\">Freedom Fighters<\/a>.  One of the first Justice League issues I read was the Earth-X crossover that restored them to DC continuity, and I&#8217;ve always thought they were interesting for fanboy reasons.  I picked up an issue or two of the recent mini-series and kind of shrugged it off.  I just can&#8217;t leave it alone, though.  This has the look of an interesting long underwear story and I&#8217;ll probably hang on to see how it goes.<\/li>\n<li>The Flash #232 &#8211; Two issues in and this still hasn&#8217;t caught fire for me. The art is gorgeous, but static, which clashes with the speed that&#8217;s essential to the title.  Worse, the plot&#8217;s dragging; these aliens seem like the kind of low-power menace that Wally should be able to polish off in an issue, we&#8217;re headed for issue three, and these vaguely tasteless critters are still on the scene.  C&#8217;mon Mark, find the gas.<\/li>\n<li>Will Eisner&#8217;s The Spirit #10 &#8211; I seem to have missed 9.  Grrr.  This is a pretty reasonable heav-handed satire (in the Spirit tradition of heavy handed satire).  The story is a little cramped, in that the various suspects and victims all ran together a bit for me, but even glossing over the plot details, I enjoyed the story.  Another enjoyable Spirit romp.  Where&#8217;s my number 9?<\/li>\n<li>Captain America #30 &#8211; Brubaker&#8217;s tense narrative is reaching a climax &#8211; Bucky in the hands of the Skull (and he kicks around Sin and Crossbones like the second stringers they are)!  SHIELD finally catching up with the Skull&#8217;s machinations!  Drama centered on Cap&#8217;s legacy (in more ways than one)!  It&#8217;s tough to wait the month between issues.  This is a great character-based action series.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This will be a couple weeks&#8217; worth. I&#8217;ve been busy&#8230; Jungle Girl #1 &#8211; OK, I&#8217;m only human. It was a Frank Cho cover and it promised jungle girls and dinosaurs. And it more or less delivered: it&#8217;s full of half-dressed women, dinosaurs, and a land that time forgot. 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