{"id":234,"date":"2007-11-21T20:17:41","date_gmt":"2007-11-22T04:17:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/?p=234"},"modified":"2007-11-21T20:59:54","modified_gmt":"2007-11-22T04:59:54","slug":"into-the-longbox-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/?p=234","title":{"rendered":"Into the longbox"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Wormwood <\/em>from Garth Ennis and Jacen Burrows.  This is really <em>Preacher<\/em> lite.  It&#8217;s an interesting enough story with the usual Ennis flourishes &#8211; the road to hell paved with mimes indeed &#8211; but running only 6 issues, only a bit of the depth.  It&#8217;s blasphemous, profane and often in bad taste, but also full of tart observations and occasional moments that move you in spite of all the puerile humor.  Jacen Burrows art is the only thing here that&#8217;s superior to <em>Preacher, <\/em>but it&#8217;s a good story nonetheless. Try it, and if it appeals to you at all, go start in on the <em>Preacher<\/em> trades.<\/p>\n<p><em>The Immortal Iron Fist: The Last Iron Fist Story<\/em>,  Ed Brubaker, Matt Fraction, and David Aja.  It&#8217;s no secret how much <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/?p=181\">I enjoy Brubaker&#8217;s writing<\/a>, and I have a long-standing fondness for Iron Fist, so I decided to check out this collection of the new series.  It&#8217;s all the fun of a late night Kung Fu movie, with a winning protagonist. More good-natured than intense, Danny Rand faces the trial of being a Billionaire Kung-Fu hero.  The Iron Fist franchise has a history of mixing Blacksploitation with its chop socky, and Luke Cage drops to keep a bit of that going on.  On the art side, Aja handles the tonal shifts with aplomb.  His storytelling is sharp, and he does a great job of making the Iron Fist mask especially expressive. It&#8217;s fast paced, winning stuff.<\/p>\n<p><em>All-Star Superman #9<\/em> &#8211; Morrison and Quietly.  Whew, no more bizarros.  Morrison continues his brilliant translation of Silver Age Superman stories into the 21st century, keeping the wonder of those stories.  You can&#8217;t make a Silver Age story believable, but Morrison makes the tropes come alive.  It&#8217;s a world of wonder and strangeness, but the people walking through it are humans.  Strongly recommended.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wormwood from Garth Ennis and Jacen Burrows. This is really Preacher lite. It&#8217;s an interesting enough story with the usual Ennis flourishes &#8211; the road to hell paved with mimes indeed &#8211; but running only 6 issues, only a bit of the depth. It&#8217;s blasphemous, profane and often in bad taste, but also full of [&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-234","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\/234","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=234"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}