{"id":719,"date":"2010-09-22T10:58:00","date_gmt":"2010-09-22T17:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/2010\/09\/22\/comic-book-report-twofer-x-marks-the-spot\/"},"modified":"2010-09-22T10:58:00","modified_gmt":"2010-09-22T17:58:00","slug":"comic-book-report-twofer-x-marks-the-spot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/2010\/09\/22\/comic-book-report-twofer-x-marks-the-spot\/","title":{"rendered":"Comic Book Report Twofer: X Marks the Spot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_5B85svs4ENE\/TG82yJHhRuI\/AAAAAAABCwQ\/7ojuILjeBjg\/s1600\/x2.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_5B85svs4ENE\/TG82yJHhRuI\/AAAAAAABCwQ\/7ojuILjeBjg\/s320\/x2.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Two interesting books I did not entirely enjoy: <i>Exurbia<\/i> and <i>Mister X: Condemned<\/i>.  The former is clearly a passion project, written by Dark Horse editor extraordinaire <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scottallie.com\/\">Scott Allie<\/a>; the latter is a retro British mashup of <i>The Fountainhead<\/i> and, I don&#8217;t know, some kind of low-budget &#8220;psychological&#8221; horror movie.  They weren&#8217;t for me, but maybe they&#8217;re for you.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Buy the book (affiliate links):<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><i>Exurbia<\/i> at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.powells.com\/partner\/34809\/biblio\/1595823395?p_isbn\">Powell&#8217;s<\/a> or <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ISBN=1595823395\/curtiscchensfree\">Amazon<\/a><\/li>\n<li><i>Mister X: Condemned<\/i> at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.powells.com\/partner\/34809\/biblio\/159582359X?p_isbn\">Powell&#8217;s<\/a> or <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ISBN=159582359X\/curtiscchensfree\">Amazon<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"CKL\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/snout.org\/HotSheet\/CKL.jpg\" title=\"CKL\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two interesting books I did not entirely enjoy: Exurbia and Mister X: Condemned. The former is clearly a passion project, written by Dark Horse editor extraordinaire Scott Allie; the latter is a retro British mashup of The Fountainhead and, I&#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":[51,62],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-719","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-comics"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/719","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=719"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/719\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=719"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=719"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=719"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}