{"id":8195,"date":"2010-04-22T10:03:39","date_gmt":"2010-04-22T15:03:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/?p=8195"},"modified":"2010-03-23T17:08:56","modified_gmt":"2010-03-23T22:08:56","slug":"basinger-clint-the-cosmic-norseman-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/?p=8195","title":{"rendered":"Basinger, Clint &#8211; The Cosmic Norseman #1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.myspace.com\/clintbasinger\">Website<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/08\/norseman11.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"norseman11\" src=\"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/08\/norseman11.jpg\" alt=\"norseman11\" width=\"394\" height=\"610\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>The Cosmic Norseman #1<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Once again, I&#8217;m torn about a comic.\u00c2\u00a0 I  know it&#8217;s a shocker, but bear with me.\u00c2\u00a0 I thoroughly enjoyed the  Backseat Drivers series that involved the Cosmic Norseman and other  assorted heroes, mostly because of its ridiculous plot and nonsensical  hilarity.\u00c2\u00a0 That and it had an air of mystery, as all these heroes (and  were they all really heroes?) were working towards something.\u00c2\u00a0 The first  issue of this series is mostly about probably the most interesting  character of the bunch getting into a series of unconnected cosmic  battles.\u00c2\u00a0 Granted, the sight of the Norseman defeating a Voltron-like convergence of space  brains with a cosmic sloshmo  (causing brain freeze) was hilarious, but it seems like there&#8217;s more  potential to this character than a series of random fights.\u00c2\u00a0 How about a  longer story?\u00c2\u00a0 Randomness has a place in longer stories too, you know,  and there&#8217;s also time there to get to know some characters.\u00c2\u00a0 All that  said, clearly this isn&#8217;t a bad book, and there&#8217;s more than enough here  to recommend it on its own.\u00c2\u00a0 It&#8217;s just that I occasionally get called  out for not putting enough specific criticisms in these rambling reviews  (which I&#8217;m sure comes as a shock to anyone reading this), so I&#8217;m asking  for a coherent storyline, with something like this issue coming along  every so often to serve as a break.\u00c2\u00a0 The fight scenes in here include  the Norseman fighting the Martian Were-Moose, Spacesquatch, and Peanut Butter  Squid, with a large chunk in the middle dealing with his hero team (the  Backseat Drivers, as you can clearly see if you scroll down the page)  fighting some robotic chickens.\u00c2\u00a0 Is this last one taken right from the  pages of the other series or is it new material?\u00c2\u00a0 I haven&#8217;t read the  whole series so I don&#8217;t know if it was, but if so&#8230; for shame, tsk tsk and all that.\u00c2\u00a0 So I&#8217;d say  check out the other series first and then come back here if you&#8217;re  craving more Cosmic Norseman.\u00c2\u00a0 $3.50<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/08\/norseman12.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"norseman12\" src=\"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/08\/norseman12.jpg\" alt=\"norseman12\" width=\"535\" height=\"820\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Website The Cosmic Norseman #1 Once again, I&#8217;m torn about a comic.\u00c2\u00a0 I know it&#8217;s a shocker, but bear with me.\u00c2\u00a0 I thoroughly enjoyed the Backseat Drivers series that involved the Cosmic Norseman and other assorted heroes, mostly because of its ridiculous plot and nonsensical hilarity.\u00c2\u00a0 That and it had an air of mystery, as [&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":[2485,607],"class_list":["post-8195","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews","tag-clint-basinger","tag-the-cosmic-norseman"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8195","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=8195"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8195\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8198,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8195\/revisions\/8198"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}