{"id":13367,"date":"2010-04-27T19:45:30","date_gmt":"2010-04-28T00:45:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/?p=13367"},"modified":"2010-07-22T22:45:46","modified_gmt":"2010-07-23T03:45:46","slug":"gertler-nat-the-factor-0","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/?p=13367","title":{"rendered":"Gertler, Nat &#8211; The Factor #0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gertler.com\/nat\/homepage.htm\">Website<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/images\/factor01.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" width=\"293\" height=\"457\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>The Factor #0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s another case of a book being 5 years old, but I did get it at  SPX in 2003, so I&#8217;m guessing he&#8217;s still working on it. It&#8217;s basically  the human angle on what happens behind the scenes when a superhero comes  and saves the day, with three short stories in here. They all have  different artists too. The first is about the news networks response to a  superhero, which they&#8217;ve apparently never heard of before. The second  is about one of the tellers involved in the bank robbery that started  the whole thing daydreaming about the superhero during a date with her  dull boyfriend. The last story is about a crook trying to take advantage  of the new fame of &#8220;The Factor&#8221; (yes, that does seem to be the name of  the superhero) with the other crooks. Here&#8217;s my obvious problem with  this. Nat mentions in his intro that it took years to get this to print,  that he actually had this concept before Astro City and others. The  thing is, whoever had the concept first, they did it a whole lot better  than this. Not that it&#8217;s terrible or anything, the art is always  adequate and the writing is fine, it&#8217;s just not as good as the other  stuff, so why bother? That is one man&#8217;s opinion, obviously, but there  you go. Here&#8217;s an <a href=\"mailto:letters@gertler.com\">e-mail address<\/a>, it&#8217;s entirely  possible that this series got a whole lot better in later issues&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/images\/factor02.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" width=\"479\" height=\"746\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Website The Factor #0 Here&#8217;s another case of a book being 5 years old, but I did get it at SPX in 2003, so I&#8217;m guessing he&#8217;s still working on it. It&#8217;s basically the human angle on what happens behind the scenes when a superhero comes and saves the day, with three short stories in [&hellip;]<\/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":[3678,1149],"class_list":["post-13367","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews","tag-nat-gertler","tag-the-factor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13367","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=13367"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13367\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13370,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13367\/revisions\/13370"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}