{"id":18873,"date":"2011-12-22T16:08:13","date_gmt":"2011-12-22T22:08:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/?p=18873"},"modified":"2011-12-22T16:08:13","modified_gmt":"2011-12-22T22:08:13","slug":"cardini-william-aka-hensel-mark-vortex-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/?p=18873","title":{"rendered":"Cardini, William aka Hensel, Mark &#8211; Vortex #1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hypercastle.com\/index.php\" target=\"_blank\">Website<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/vortex1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-18874\" title=\"vortex1\" src=\"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/vortex1-211x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"211\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/vortex1-211x300.jpg 211w, https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/vortex1-720x1024.jpg 720w, https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/vortex1.jpg 1414w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 211px) 100vw, 211px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Vortex<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>You know, generally speaking pseudonyms make more sense when your real name is a secret, not when you list both names in every publication. Hey, whatever works for him is fine with me. Mark&#8217;s work has occasionally baffled me in the past (and long time readers know that I usually mean that in a good way), but this one made perfect sense to me. Whether that should be worrying or a good sign I&#8217;ll leave up to you. Things start off with a big old cosmic figure who is searching for a &#8220;tranz force&#8221; and notices a signal coming from an uninhabited planet. He\/she\/it goes down to the surface and meets a life form. This life form slowly (over the course of pages) reveals that this was a trap set for the original life form, as they knew that it would come to investigate the tranz force sooner or later. A brief battle ensues, the original entity is cut in half, and that&#8217;s when things start to get interesting. Mark has a nice intro in this comic that explains this universe a bit, but it&#8217;s best to read such a thing for yourself instead of having me summarize it. The battle of these two creatures was suitably majestic , which also gave the reader the sense that we were seeing a fraction of everything that was happening. I also liked his choice to take as many pages as he did showing this battle, as something between two cosmic beings like this should be big and dramatic. I always hated how some Marvel comics would have some big cosmic entity like Galactus getting punched out, as if that was the extent of something that could happen in a battle with a guy who ate planets. Ah, I&#8217;m wandering now, but if you liked any of Mark&#8217;s previous comics then you&#8217;re sure to love this, and if you never gave them a chance then this is as coherent a starting point as you&#8217;re likely to find. $5<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/vortex2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-18875\" title=\"vortex2\" src=\"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/vortex2-212x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"212\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/vortex2-212x300.jpg 212w, https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/vortex2-723x1024.jpg 723w, https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/vortex2.jpg 1371w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 212px) 100vw, 212px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Website Vortex You know, generally speaking pseudonyms make more sense when your real name is a secret, not when you list both names in every publication. Hey, whatever works for him is fine with me. Mark&#8217;s work has occasionally baffled me in the past (and long time readers know that I usually mean that 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":[3493,4711,2585],"class_list":["post-18873","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews","tag-mark-hensel","tag-vortex","tag-william-cardini"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18873","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=18873"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18873\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18876,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18873\/revisions\/18876"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18873"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}