{"id":8034,"date":"2010-04-22T07:30:44","date_gmt":"2010-04-22T12:30:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/?p=8034"},"modified":"2010-03-23T12:06:17","modified_gmt":"2010-03-23T17:06:17","slug":"anderson-chris-the-12-hour-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/?p=8034","title":{"rendered":"Anderson, Chris &#8211; The 12 Hour Man"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pinkdresson.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Website<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.doctorsquid.com\" target=\"_blank\">Also a website<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/12hourman1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"12hourman1\" src=\"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/12hourman1.jpg\" alt=\"12hourman1\" width=\"324\" height=\"509\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>The 12 Hour Man #1 (art by Scott Longo)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Go ahead, take a guess on what this comic is about.\u00c2\u00a0 I&#8217;m sure there&#8217;s  a list of possibilities racing through your mind after seeing that  title.\u00c2\u00a0 And the winner is&#8230; a one man wrecking crew working for a  shadowy arm of the government!\u00c2\u00a0 Yep, in this case the 12 hour man is  someone who drops into an area, clears out all the bad guys in it and  goes home in under 12 hours.\u00c2\u00a0 Basically it&#8217;s an excuse for Chris &amp;  Scott to draw some serious gore and mayhem, and I&#8217;m here to tell them  that they don&#8217;t need an excuse for such a thing.\u00c2\u00a0 As there&#8217;s not much of  a story to speak of, it leaves me, as a reviewer, with a bit of a blank  spot in terms of things to talk about.\u00c2\u00a0 The art is wonderful, with some  brutal (but never horrific, somehow) violence.\u00c2\u00a0 The writing, well, all  Chris has to do is throw in a few instructions from the mysterious man  guiding the 12 hour man and the occasional shouted threat, but he does  this admirably.\u00c2\u00a0 My appreciation for the work of this man should be  obvious if you scroll down this page a bit, and this comic does nothing  to lessen that.\u00c2\u00a0 Start with the &#8220;Everything&#8221; series (as it does, after  all, contain everything), then work your way over to this one.\u00c2\u00a0 No  price, as usual, but I&#8217;ll guess $2<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/12hourman2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"12hourman2\" src=\"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/12hourman2.jpg\" alt=\"12hourman2\" width=\"431\" height=\"656\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Website Also a website The 12 Hour Man #1 (art by Scott Longo) Go ahead, take a guess on what this comic is about.\u00c2\u00a0 I&#8217;m sure there&#8217;s a list of possibilities racing through your mind after seeing that title.\u00c2\u00a0 And the winner is&#8230; a one man wrecking crew working for a shadowy arm of the [&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":[2466,2465,537],"class_list":["post-8034","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews","tag-chris-anderson","tag-scott-longo","tag-the-12-hour-man"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8034","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=8034"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8034\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8039,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8034\/revisions\/8039"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8034"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8034"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8034"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}