{"id":13327,"date":"2010-04-27T19:03:05","date_gmt":"2010-04-28T00:03:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/?p=13327"},"modified":"2010-07-22T22:45:48","modified_gmt":"2010-07-23T03:45:48","slug":"free-lunch-comics-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/?p=13327","title":{"rendered":"Free Lunch Comics – Beyond the Kuiper Belt #1"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Beyond the Kuiper Belt #1<\/strong><\/p>\n

Am I being a little too optimistic to give these guys their own page when I have so much crap stored on the assorted Various pages?\u00c2\u00a0 Maybe, but judging from their website they do make a fair amount of comics.\u00c2\u00a0 This is what they call a “graphic novel magazine”, which sounds like they were just picking comics words out of a hat.\u00c2\u00a0 Hey, it could all make sense if they keep these stories going and serialize them in a few years.\u00c2\u00a0 The first story is Killer Cortez (by Keith Murphy, Alex Rivera & John Escobales) dealing with an, um, killer.\u00c2\u00a0 We’re given the basics on his background and meet him while he’s fighting other people in something resembling an arena.\u00c2\u00a0 He’s taken captive by some people who need him for a political dispute (although he was captured off-page, which was a damned odd and confusing choice if he’s the baddest of killers), and it’s tough to say much more about this without reading future installments.\u00c2\u00a0 It has potential but the writing can be a bit stilted.\u00c2\u00a0 The art’s amazing though, no troubles there.\u00c2\u00a0 The other comic story is Black Roses (by Matt Ryan & David Kaminski), dealing with a crew of space pirate ladies, their captives and a floating pile of parts they manage to assemble into a robot.\u00c2\u00a0 Again, it’s tough to get too much from this short piece, and things were flying around so much that it was a little tough to keep track of what was happening, but it has some potential once the characters get established.\u00c2\u00a0 There’s also a short story by Michael Glenzel but, at the risk of losing my reviewers card, I didn’t read it.\u00c2\u00a0 Lost interest almost right away, which is far more of an indictment on me than it is on the story one way or the other.\u00c2\u00a0 One thing I really liked is that this book started and ended with words from Maximillian Lehrer, a man who lets the reader know the purpose of the book, the history behind it and gives us peeks into the future.\u00c2\u00a0 Throw in a hefty (and quite possibly fake) letters page and it really makes the comic.\u00c2\u00a0 Little extra things like that always get bonus points from me, as I’m all for widening the range of the average reading of a comic (or graphic novel magazine).\u00c2\u00a0 For that reason alone this is worth a look, even if the jury is still out on the actual comics.\u00c2\u00a0 $3.95<\/p>\n

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Website Beyond the Kuiper Belt #1 Am I being a little too optimistic to give these guys their own page when I have so much crap stored on the assorted Various pages?\u00c2\u00a0 Maybe, but judging from their website they do make a fair amount of comics.\u00c2\u00a0 This is what they call a “graphic novel magazine”, […]<\/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":[3658,1104,3661,3656,3659,3657,3660,3662],"class_list":["post-13327","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews","tag-alex-rivera","tag-beyond-the-kuiper-belt","tag-david-kaminski","tag-free-lunch-comics","tag-john-escobales","tag-keith-murphy","tag-matt-ryan","tag-michael-glenzel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13327","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=13327"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13327\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16768,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13327\/revisions\/16768"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13327"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13327"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13327"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}