{"id":4843,"date":"2010-05-02T12:03:53","date_gmt":"2010-05-02T17:03:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/?p=4843"},"modified":"2010-07-22T22:44:53","modified_gmt":"2010-07-23T03:44:53","slug":"ortiz-juan-editor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/?p=4843","title":{"rendered":"Ortiz, Juan (editor) – Silver Comics #8"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Silver Comics #8<\/strong><\/p>\n

And here I thought I was getting a new Michael Neno comic.\u00c2\u00a0 Well, technically I am (he has the first story in this collection), but there’s much more to this than just one story.\u00c2\u00a0 Before I get started, click on that website above.\u00c2\u00a0 There’s a cover collection there, and if that isn’t the sort of thing that you like, you’ll know it instantly.\u00c2\u00a0 These books are basically new versions of silver age comics, with the occasional wackiness thrown in, but they’re basically faithful versions of that type of story with some funny thrown in.\u00c2\u00a0 First up is the story by Michael Neno, which just so happens to be the cover story.\u00c2\u00a0 Well, this cover story anyway, there’s also an excellent back cover.\u00c2\u00a0 Someone is attacking all the milk men and none of the children are getting their milk, so an enigmatic hero called The End decides to help them out by going undercover.\u00c2\u00a0 Yes, you will find many puns about spilt milk, and yes, “The End” is used as a pun more than once.\u00c2\u00a0 It’s still a thoroughly entertaining story.\u00c2\u00a0 Next up is The Day of the Ice Menace by Johnny Ortiz, Dan Beltran and Mark Prudeax, dealing with an Iron Man-ish character trying to stop a mysterious ball of energy.\u00c2\u00a0 He touches the ball, which quickly encases him in a block of cosmic ice, but manages to fly to a nearby volcano to get out of it.\u00c2\u00a0 This story captures the feel of those old stories perfectly as the hero flits from catastrophe to catastrophe before the shocking ending.\u00c2\u00a0 Finally there’s Let Them Be Damned by the same crew of Ortiz, Beltran and Prudeax, which deals with a depressed Santa (after Satan has taken over his job) trying to get his fighting spirit back with the help of Rudolph.\u00c2\u00a0 More mayhem and I particularly enjoyed the “to be continued” ending, knowing that it probably won’t ever be continued unless this is part of a much larger Santa storyline that I missed by not getting the earlier issues.\u00c2\u00a0 All of this is wrapped up by a text piece from Dan Beltran, which was entertaining enough even if it felt slightly out of place alongside all the illustrated shenanigans.\u00c2\u00a0 Finally there are a few pin-ups and fake ads, and you’re left with a thoroughly entertaining fake silver age comic.\u00c2\u00a0 Like I said, you already know if this sort of thing, done well, is something you’d enjoy.\u00c2\u00a0 This is done extremely well, so it’s your call.\u00c2\u00a0 And it’s cheap!\u00c2\u00a0 $1.95<\/p>\n

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Website Silver Comics #8 And here I thought I was getting a new Michael Neno comic.\u00c2\u00a0 Well, technically I am (he has the first story in this collection), but there’s much more to this than just one story.\u00c2\u00a0 Before I get started, click on that website above.\u00c2\u00a0 There’s a cover collection there, and if that […]<\/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":[3896,3895,3894,3897,3160,1819],"class_list":["post-4843","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews","tag-dan-beltran","tag-johnny-ortiz","tag-juan-ortiz","tag-mark-prudeax","tag-michael-neno","tag-silver-comics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4843","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=4843"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4843\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7366,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4843\/revisions\/7366"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4843"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4843"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4843"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}