{"id":13820,"date":"2010-05-03T14:22:32","date_gmt":"2010-05-03T19:22:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/?p=13820"},"modified":"2010-07-22T22:44:25","modified_gmt":"2010-07-23T03:44:25","slug":"cardini-william-aka-mark-hensel-shaman-thunder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/?p=13820","title":{"rendered":"Cardini, William (aka Mark Hensel) &#8211; Shaman Thunder"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/hypercastle.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Website<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"mailto:markphensel@gmail.com\">E-mail<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/shamanthunder1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"shamanthunder1\" src=\"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/shamanthunder1-191x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"191\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Shaman Thunder<\/strong> (with<a href=\"http:\/\/www.joshburggraf.com\" target=\"_blank\"> Josh Burggraf<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>You know what I&#8217;ve always hated about any sort of wizard on wizard  battle in the movies?\u00c2\u00a0 Or shamans, or any sort of people who were  supposed to have all sorts of bizarre and unknowable mystical powers?\u00c2\u00a0  How stupid it always ends up being.\u00c2\u00a0 More often than not it turns into a  typical physical slugfest, either due to a lack of imagination or a  lack of budget, and it always drags me out of whatever willing  suspension of disbelief I was going through.\u00c2\u00a0 Yes, in case you were  wondering, there is a a point to all this: those two floating heads you  see on the cover belong to two shaman, and their battle in this issue is  exactly like this sort of thing should be.\u00c2\u00a0 Meaning that it only has  the barest appearance of a conventional fight to us normal folk, but  there&#8217;s clearly all sorts of things going on beneath the surface.\u00c2\u00a0 This  issue starts off simply enough, as one shaman returns home and discovers  that his thunder-root is missing.\u00c2\u00a0 He tracks down the thief (using  magic, of course), but this leads him to believe another shaman (a  disillusioned shaman who&#8217;s standing near the actual thief) is the thief,  which leads to an absolutely awesome battle.\u00c2\u00a0 Go ahead, embiggen that  sample below.\u00c2\u00a0 If you&#8217;re not impressed with that you&#8217;ve clearly never  spent even a second of your life imagining what an actual shaman fight  would look like.\u00c2\u00a0 The rest of the issue deals with the two shamans  teaming up to fight the actual thief, but shamans never get along for  long.\u00c2\u00a0 As for the art, William\/Mark and Josh mostly draw alternating  pages, and it&#8217;s seamless.\u00c2\u00a0 Sometimes it&#8217;s tough to say who would enjoy a  particular mini and who wouldn&#8217;t, but this one is easy.\u00c2\u00a0 If you&#8217;re  enough of a dork to want to see a thoroughly ridiculous though oddly  realistic fight between two shamans, it&#8217;s never been done better to my  knowledge.\u00c2\u00a0 If you consider yourself above such things, lucky for you  there are many other mini comics in the world for you to choose from.\u00c2\u00a0  No price again, so I&#8217;m going with $2.50.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/shamanthunder2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"shamanthunder2\" src=\"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/shamanthunder2-192x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"192\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Website E-mail Shaman Thunder (with Josh Burggraf) You know what I&#8217;ve always hated about any sort of wizard on wizard battle in the movies?\u00c2\u00a0 Or shamans, or any sort of people who were supposed to have all sorts of bizarre and unknowable mystical powers?\u00c2\u00a0 How stupid it always ends up being.\u00c2\u00a0 More often than not 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