{"id":19595,"date":"2010-02-06T14:47:06","date_gmt":"2010-02-06T20:47:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/?wpsc-product=rocket-girl-1-by-nik-havert-jesus-antonio-hernandez-rodriguez"},"modified":"2010-02-06T14:47:06","modified_gmt":"2010-02-06T20:47:06","slug":"rocket-girl-1-by-nik-havert-jesus-antonio-hernandez-rodriguez","status":"publish","type":"wpsc-product","link":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/?wpsc-product=rocket-girl-1-by-nik-havert-jesus-antonio-hernandez-rodriguez","title":{"rendered":"Rocket Girl #1 by Nik Havert &#038; Jesus Antonio Hernandez Rodriguez"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After many, many years of being disappointed with comics that have superheroes in them, I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve learned to take anything with a superhero in it and assume that it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s crap until it wins me over. Luckily, this one did that about one page in. The first page is a spread of the main\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 well, obsession of the main character, a superhero called Fire Chief. I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m not sure what else Jesus has done, as this is from a few years ago, but holy crap is this man a gifted artist. That single page was enough for me to turn the cynicism off and let this thing win me over, and then the writing kicked in. Yep, that\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s all you need for a great comic, so I was hooked. This is the story of a woman named Polly Harris, a seemingly ordinary woman who has a massive crush on one of the more famous superheroes in their town, the Fire Chief. Why she has a crush isn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t immediately clear, as he\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s in a baggy costume with a bucket over his head, but she has an absolute obsession, which eventually leads her to try the superhero thing out for herself. That may be a spoiler, as most of this book is the \u00e2\u20ac\u0153origin\u00e2\u20ac\u009d issue and we don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t see her in costume until the end, but come on now, the book is called \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Rocket Girl\u00e2\u20ac\u009d, how did you think it would turn out? Anyway, great stuff all around, completely engrossing, and kudos to Jesus on the choice of making the werewolf more like the old black and white movie werewolf and less like the giant beast that seems to be in all the movies these days. You damned kids!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"template":"","meta":{"_wpsc_stock":"1","_wpsc_price":"2.25","_wpsc_special_price":"2.25","_wpsc_sku":"","footnotes":""},"product_tag":[],"wpsc_product_category":[4747,5630],"wpsc-variation":[],"class_list":["post-19595","wpsc-product","type-wpsc-product","status-publish","hentry","wpsc_product_category-comics","wpsc_product_category-nik-havert"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/wpsc-product\/19595","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/wpsc-product"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/wpsc-product"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/wpsc-product\/19595\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19595"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"product_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fproduct_tag&post=19595"},{"taxonomy":"wpsc_product_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fwpsc_product_category&post=19595"},{"taxonomy":"wpsc-variation","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fwpsc-variation&post=19595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}