{"id":444,"date":"2009-04-26T21:22:10","date_gmt":"2009-04-27T05:22:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/?p=444"},"modified":"2009-04-26T21:22:10","modified_gmt":"2009-04-27T05:22:10","slug":"into-the-longbox-26","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/?p=444","title":{"rendered":"Into the Longbox"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Not many this week, and they&#8217;re really from last week, but here we go.<\/p>\n<p><em>Captain America #49<\/em>, Brubaker, Ross, Magyar, D&#8217;Armata. We spend an issue with Sharon Carter tracking the aftermath of her difficult time with the Red Skull and company.  It&#8217;s good to see the fallout of living in the Marvel Universe, and Brubaker handles it well &#8211; except maybe the contrived trigger that jogs her memory.  A few hints at the future seem to be littered about this issue as well.  Next issue seems to be another big look at Bucky and his new responsibilities.  I hope that&#8217;s not the case.<\/p>\n<p><em>Incognito #3<\/em>, Brubaker and Phillips. Unlike Captain America, which seems to be slowing down from it&#8217;s zippier start, <em>Incognito<\/em> keeps things moving at a breakneck speed. Characters come and go, as Zack&#8217;s situation goes from bad to worse with predictable rapidity.  While the plot&#8217;s fun to watch, it&#8217;s really the well executed noir tropes overlaid on the super-hero world that are the reward here.  Good fun.  I wandered over to <em>Criminal<\/em> and enjoyed that as well.<\/p>\n<p><em>Seaguy: Slaves of Mickey Eye #1,<\/em> Morrison and Stewart. I think <em>Seaguy<\/em> is genuinely good comics that takes aim at the current storytelling tics with a dead-on satire that exaggerates their failings well beyond the threshold of human hearing.  Unfortunately when the failings include a hopeless tone and stagnation it&#8217;s hard to read.  The hopelessness clings to every panel of Morrison and Stewart&#8217;s genuinely wonder-filled world creating a grueling congnitive dissonance.  I think it&#8217;s well worth the time, but I can understand not reading it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Not many this week, and they&#8217;re really from last week, but here we go. Captain America #49, Brubaker, Ross, Magyar, D&#8217;Armata. We spend an issue with Sharon Carter tracking the aftermath of her difficult time with the Red Skull and company. It&#8217;s good to see the fallout of living in the Marvel Universe, and Brubaker [&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-444","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\/444","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=444"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/444\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":448,"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/444\/revisions\/448"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=444"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}