{"id":475,"date":"2009-06-07T17:35:50","date_gmt":"2009-06-08T01:35:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/?p=475"},"modified":"2009-06-07T17:35:50","modified_gmt":"2009-06-08T01:35:50","slug":"into-the-longbox-28","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/?p=475","title":{"rendered":"Into the longbox"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Will Eisner&#8217;s The Spirit #28<\/em>, Uslan, DeSnato, Justiniano, Wong.  I&#8217;ve been enjoying these fellows&#8217; take on The Spirit, but this issue didn&#8217;t have the winning character interaction from the core team that&#8217;s been holding up the short run.  I found the plotting a little convoluted &#8211; a lot of exposition to introduce &#8211; and the art had some gratuitously odd perspective that didn&#8217;t improve the storytelling or look convincing. Still any issue that includes the line &#8220;Ellen, they poisoned my ketchup&#8230;&#8221; has something redeeming in it.<\/p>\n<p><em>Glamourpuss #7, <\/em>Sim.  Honestly, too much unfunny parody, too little meticulously rendered comics history.  Definitely playing away form the series&#8217;s strength from my perspective.<\/p>\n<p><em>Seaguy: Slaves of Mickey Eye #3<\/em>, Morrison &amp; Stewart.  An ending of sorts for Seaguy.  In keeping with the rest of the series,  it&#8217;s not so much that Seaguy&#8217;s changed his world, but he&#8217;s definitely done what he can, and emerged different.  The art&#8217;s still gorgeous and the odd world is consistent throughout.  If you liked the other issues, you&#8217;ll like this one. I may be an old softie, but I thought the closing sequence was very sweet.<\/p>\n<p><em>Secret Six #10<\/em>, Simone, Scott, Hazlewood. After the last couple issues of one-shots, we&#8217;re back to a longer arc.  Simone reminds us that these folks are bad guys, even with their redeeming qualities, by having them accept a job from some very bad guys.  Beneath this rollicking adventure series is a very interesting look at good and evil, with very sympathetic but flawed characters asking hard questions. And it&#8217;s a smart, rollicking adventure.  With art perfectly tuned to the story, and to communicating the characters internals.  If you can stomach super-stuff at all, this should be on your reading list.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Will Eisner&#8217;s The Spirit #28, Uslan, DeSnato, Justiniano, Wong. I&#8217;ve been enjoying these fellows&#8217; take on The Spirit, but this issue didn&#8217;t have the winning character interaction from the core team that&#8217;s been holding up the short run. I found the plotting a little convoluted &#8211; a lot of exposition to introduce &#8211; and the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-475","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews","category-whats-new"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/475","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=475"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/475\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":479,"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/475\/revisions\/479"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}