{"id":1000,"date":"2009-04-25T14:21:00","date_gmt":"2009-04-25T21:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/2009\/04\/25\/warren-does-joe\/"},"modified":"2009-04-25T14:21:00","modified_gmt":"2009-04-25T21:21:00","slug":"warren-does-joe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/2009\/04\/25\/warren-does-joe\/","title":{"rendered":"Warren Does Joe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you want to give your tired old media property a badass reboot, Warren Ellis is clearly the man to call.  He helped elevate <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ISBN=0785114580\/curtiscchensfree\">Ultimate Fantastic Four<\/a>, and now he&#8217;s done it again with <span style=\"font-style:italic;\">G.I. Joe: Resolute<\/span>, the new animated movie that&#8217;s been airing in installments on Cartoon Network&#8217;s Adult Swim.  It&#8217;s a solid junior techno-thriller.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.beyondhollywood.com\/warren-ellis-gi-joe-resolute-airing-dates\/\">final installment airs tonight<\/a> at midnight.  You can also <a href=\"http:\/\/www.adultswim.com\/video\/?episodeID=8a25059520b3d89e0120b49221340025\">watch the entire show online<\/a> (or <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=LmahUDrswxY\">on YouTube<\/a>, for those outside the USA).  It&#8217;s not perfect&#8211;you&#8217;ll see <a href=\"http:\/\/tvtropes.org\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/ImperialStormtrooperMarksmanshipAcademy\">stormtrooper marksmanship<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/tvtropes.org\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/HeroicSacrifice\">heroic sacrifice<\/a> tropes, among others&#8211;but I love the science fiction procedural in Parts 3 and 4 (I now have a tiny crush on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.warrenellis.com\/?p=7227\">the new Dial Tone<\/a>), and the ninja fight in Part 8 is <span style=\"font-weight:bold;\">brutal.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>I really don&#8217;t expect <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt1046173\/\">this summer&#8217;s live-action movie<\/a> to be anywhere near as cool as this.<\/p>\n<p>~CKL<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you want to give your tired old media property a badass reboot, Warren Ellis is clearly the man to call. He helped elevate Ultimate Fantastic Four, and now he&#8217;s done it again with G.I. Joe: Resolute, the new animated&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[32,56,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1000","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sci-tech","category-tv","category-writing"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1000","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1000"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1000\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1000"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1000"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1000"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}