{"id":436,"date":"2009-03-22T21:41:38","date_gmt":"2009-03-23T05:41:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/?p=436"},"modified":"2009-03-22T21:43:12","modified_gmt":"2009-03-23T05:43:12","slug":"into-the-longbox-24","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/?p=436","title":{"rendered":"Into the Longbox"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hey, these are close to on time.<\/p>\n<p><em>Top Ten Second Season #4<\/em>, Cannon and Ha.  This was downright good.  The characterization is all excellent and consistent, both internally and with the earlier season.  The art is also a continuing delight.  I recommend this if you enjoyed <em>Top Ten<\/em>.  And if you haven&#8217;t read <em>Top Ten<\/em>, you should.<\/p>\n<p><em>Saga of the Swamp Thing #21<\/em>, Moore, Bissette, and Totleben.  This is a re-issue of the point at which Swamp Thing stopped being a run-of-the-mill horror title and became a whole new mixture of magic, wonder, horror, and romance.  Everything holds up remarkably well, especially the unique and expressive Bissette and Totleben art.  Moore&#8217;s writing is well known and justifiably praised (often by me), but the spooky images and innovative layouts that defined the art on this run are already there.  It&#8217;s a great read and a historical moment available for a buck.  Grab one.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hey, these are close to on time. Top Ten Second Season #4, Cannon and Ha. This was downright good. The characterization is all excellent and consistent, both internally and with the earlier season. The art is also a continuing delight. I recommend this if you enjoyed Top Ten. And if you haven&#8217;t read Top Ten, [&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-436","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\/436","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=436"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/436\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}