{"id":13704,"date":"2010-04-28T00:33:04","date_gmt":"2010-04-28T05:33:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/?p=13704"},"modified":"2010-07-22T22:45:31","modified_gmt":"2010-07-23T03:45:31","slug":"leonard-brian-big-un-visits-the-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/?p=13704","title":{"rendered":"Leonard, Brian &#8211; Big &#8216;Un Visits the City"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"mailto:bri_leo@msn.com\">E-mail<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/bigun1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"bigun1\" src=\"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/bigun1.jpg\" alt=\"bigun1\" width=\"484\" height=\"221\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Big &#8216;Un Visits the City<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Who likes mayhem?\u00c2\u00a0 As you may have guessed by that cover (shame on  you for judging a book by its cover, even if you did get it right this  time) that giant sea monster (?) decides to wander into the city,  because&#8230; well, why do these big monsters usually go into cities?\u00c2\u00a0  Let&#8217;s go with that reason, whatever it is.\u00c2\u00a0 The monster gets some  resistance, mostly just a nuisance to him (unless it&#8217;s a her), and has a  merry old time tearing up the place.\u00c2\u00a0 Eventually the secret weapon is  brought out, but I won&#8217;t give away the ending.\u00c2\u00a0 It&#8217;s a fun book if  you&#8217;re into this sort of thing.\u00c2\u00a0 No graphic violence so your kids could  read it if they love monster movies, and there are a number of little  clever asides.\u00c2\u00a0 I particularly enjoyed the crowd scene consisting of 4  people planning and a number of others running away.\u00c2\u00a0 Clearly these  people were in some sort of anti Big &#8216;Un squadron, but I loved how any  details about it or about the secret weapon were glossed right over.\u00c2\u00a0  Hey, it&#8217;s only a mini comic and the man needed to cram as much  destruction in here as he could; there&#8217;s no faulting him for that.\u00c2\u00a0 If  you&#8217;re looking for a long whiny tract about What It All Means there are  plenty of pages on this website that&#8217;ll fit the bill.\u00c2\u00a0 If you just want  to see a big monster tearing through a town for no good reason, you&#8217;ve  come to the right place.\u00c2\u00a0 $1<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/bigun2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"bigun2\" src=\"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/bigun2.jpg\" alt=\"bigun2\" width=\"664\" height=\"308\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>E-mail Big &#8216;Un Visits the City Who likes mayhem?\u00c2\u00a0 As you may have guessed by that cover (shame on you for judging a book by its cover, even if you did get it right this time) that giant sea monster (?) decides to wander into the city, because&#8230; well, why do these big monsters usually [&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":[1540,3780],"class_list":["post-13704","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews","tag-big-un-visits-the-city","tag-brian-leonard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13704","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=13704"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13704\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13706,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13704\/revisions\/13706"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13704"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13704"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13704"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}