{"id":14187,"date":"2010-05-02T19:42:56","date_gmt":"2010-05-03T00:42:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/?p=14187"},"modified":"2010-07-22T22:44:26","modified_gmt":"2010-07-23T03:44:26","slug":"various-anthologies-superior-showcase-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/?p=14187","title":{"rendered":"Various Anthologies &#8211; Superior Showcase #1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.adhousebooks.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Website<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\".https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/images\/superior11.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" hspace=\"0\" align=\"bottom\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Superior Showcase #1<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The phrase \u00e2\u20ac\u0153entertaining superhero anthology\u00e2\u20ac\u009d probably isn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t  something you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve read lately, but that\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s exactly what this is: an  entertaining superhero anthology. I wouldn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t have believed it either.  There are three stories in this one. First up is Nick Bertozzi\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s take on  an average day in a superhero convenient store and how the staff deals  with transients and villains. And he draws costumes that look like  actual clothes! Amazing. Next up is Mike Dawson\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s tale of the final  adventure of Ace-Face, a guy with giant metal arms, who decides to come  out of retirement one last time to deal with a local vigilante, in what  is one of the better fight scenes outside of It Lives #1 by Ted May.  Last up is Butterfly by John Campbell &amp; Dean Trippi. It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a look at  the lives of the most under-appreciated of heroes: sidekicks. Throw in  the evil Hipster Ghosts as the villains and I have a real hard time  picking a favorite out of this bunch, always a good sign for an  anthology. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.adhousebooks.com\/\">Adhouse books<\/a> has  (from the comics I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve seen anyway) managed to keep their perfect  reputation intact again. Also, if you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re afraid of the superhero comics,  don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t worry. There\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s only a couple of real fight scenes and only one  guy flying. They do all, however, spend a lot of time focused on grown  men in underwear, so take that however you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122d like. $2.95<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\".https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/images\/superior12.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" hspace=\"0\" align=\"bottom\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Website Superior Showcase #1 The phrase \u00e2\u20ac\u0153entertaining superhero anthology\u00e2\u20ac\u009d probably isn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t something you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve read lately, but that\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s exactly what this is: an entertaining superhero anthology. I wouldn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t have believed it either. There are three stories in this one. First up is Nick Bertozzi\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s take on an average day in a superhero convenient store and how [&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":[4105,4104,2675,2518,2261],"class_list":["post-14187","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews","tag-dean-trippi","tag-john-campbell","tag-mike-dawson","tag-nick-bertozzi","tag-superior-showcase"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14187","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=14187"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14187\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16411,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14187\/revisions\/16411"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}