{"id":15061,"date":"2010-04-22T13:30:57","date_gmt":"2010-04-22T18:30:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/?p=15061"},"modified":"2010-06-22T13:32:27","modified_gmt":"2010-06-22T18:32:27","slug":"pappalardo-tom-famous-fighters-1-written-by-matt-smith","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/?p=15061","title":{"rendered":"Pappalardo, Tom &#8211; Famous Fighters #1 (written by Matt Smith)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.standard-design.com\/\">Website<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.broken-lines.com\/\">Website for Broken Lines<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.famousfighters.com\/\">Website for Famous Fighters<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/images\/famous11.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" hspace=\"0\" align=\"bottom\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Famous Fighters #1 (written by Matt Smith)<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/?page_id=3417&amp;category=2&amp;product_id=253\" target=\"_blank\">Now Available!<\/a> $6<\/p>\n<p>God bless Matt and Tom, and I mean that as nothing but completely sincere. So many people who do comics are happiest when it&#8217;s one big chaotic fight scene, so they decided to take most of the story out of it and we&#8217;re left with one big pile of fights. Which, if you&#8217;re feeling particularly cerebral today, might not be your thing, and more power to you. I rarely if ever sample the first page of a book, and that&#8217;s all I needed to know I was going to like this one. Barbarian Lord is a character who&#8217;s confined to single page stories, usually ending in decapitations, and always ending in a poem. Nothing but fun to be had there, and these are sprinkled throughout the book. There&#8217;s a Pong contest between a man and Satan, done entirely in verse. You also have Eclipso (a fat-headed kid who kills flowers), a zombie metal band and an extended kung-fu parody, also hilarious if you&#8217;ve seen more than one kung-fu movie in your life. Really, there&#8217;s not a single thing here to complain about. Tom (between this and the issue listed above) looks to me to be a giant among comics men, assuming he has more like these last two in him, and Matt was able to do plenty of this issue in verse (which I usually hate) and make it a wonderful thing to behold. Buy it and laugh, as there are few enough things around that&#8217;ll allow you to do that without trying to teach you some sort of a message. None of that nonsense here, just an awful lot of decapitations! $5<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/images\/famous12.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" hspace=\"0\" align=\"bottom\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Website Website for Broken Lines Website for Famous Fighters Famous Fighters #1 (written by Matt Smith) Now Available! $6 God bless Matt and Tom, and I mean that as nothing but completely sincere. So many people who do comics are happiest when it&#8217;s one big chaotic fight scene, so they decided to take most of [&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":[1851,1852,3182],"class_list":["post-15061","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews","tag-famous-fighters","tag-matt-smith","tag-tom-pappalardo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15061","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=15061"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15061\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15062,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15061\/revisions\/15062"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15061"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15061"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15061"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}