{"id":13139,"date":"2010-04-27T16:18:50","date_gmt":"2010-04-27T21:18:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/?p=13139"},"modified":"2010-07-22T22:46:23","modified_gmt":"2010-07-23T03:46:23","slug":"claringbold-scott-typhair-brian-gulliver-brimstone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/?p=13139","title":{"rendered":"Claringbold, Scott & Typhair, Brian – Gulliver Brimstone"},"content":{"rendered":"

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…the hell?\u00c2\u00a0 Let me explain.\u00c2\u00a0 Usually, at the very least, I have a clear idea of why I liked or didn’t like a comic.\u00c2\u00a0 This time around I’m pretty sure I hated this, but then again I’m not entirely sure what happened.\u00c2\u00a0 As this is an ashcan and is supposed to generate interest in the finished product, I’m going to break my usual “no spoilers” rule and tell you about all 6 pages.\u00c2\u00a0 Gulliver Brimstone, we’re told in the synopsis, is Britain’s first line of defense against the supernatural.\u00c2\u00a0 Kudos right away; a synopsis was essential here.\u00c2\u00a0 The actual comic starts with something huge (and unseen) ripping out of a truck.\u00c2\u00a0 Page 2 begins with what may or may not be the same creatures standing on a rooftop, looking vaguely menacing.\u00c2\u00a0 These creatures are quickly overtaken by another, even more menacing creature, which I’m guessing is our hero.\u00c2\u00a0 Page 3 sees the introduction of… some other guy, who seems to be as big as our hero and a ringleader of some kind.\u00c2\u00a0 We also meet a girl who tells people to get to safety, so I’m guessing she’s connected to Gulliver somehow.\u00c2\u00a0 Page 4 sees our hero attacking this other big guy and getting beaten back.\u00c2\u00a0 This took me more than one glance to interpret, I’ll tell you that much.\u00c2\u00a0 Page 5 quite possibly has the big bad guy vanish only to reappear a bit farther away to laugh at our hero, but again this is depicted in such a way that I’m only making an educated guess.\u00c2\u00a0 Page 6 is funny, but in an almost certainly unintentional way.\u00c2\u00a0 The big bad taunts our hero, saying that he’s learned a lot about him today, and the girl involved with our hero says “That a damned lot more than we learned!”\u00c2\u00a0 Boy howdy, that’s for sure.\u00c2\u00a0 Do you see the problem here?\u00c2\u00a0 This comic was supposed to convince me to be on the lookout for the first full issue of this comic, but the art was damned near indecipherable and the little bits of writing that there were seemed like all cliches all the time.\u00c2\u00a0 Don’t get me wrong, I’m not condemning these two before the first issue is even out.\u00c2\u00a0 I’m just saying that this ashcan didn’t do a single thing to get me to want to read the full issue.<\/p>\n

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Website Gulliver Brimstone …the hell?\u00c2\u00a0 Let me explain.\u00c2\u00a0 Usually, at the very least, I have a clear idea of why I liked or didn’t like a comic.\u00c2\u00a0 This time around I’m pretty sure I hated this, but then again I’m not entirely sure what happened.\u00c2\u00a0 As this is an ashcan and is supposed to generate […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[3598,845,3597],"class_list":["post-13139","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews","tag-brian-typhair","tag-gulliver-brimstone","tag-scott-claringbold"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13139","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13139"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13139\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13142,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13139\/revisions\/13142"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}