{"id":740,"date":"2010-08-18T23:06:00","date_gmt":"2010-08-19T06:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/2010\/08\/18\/comic-book-report-checkmate-vol-3-fall-of-the-wall\/"},"modified":"2010-08-18T23:06:00","modified_gmt":"2010-08-19T06:06:00","slug":"comic-book-report-checkmate-vol-3-fall-of-the-wall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/2010\/08\/18\/comic-book-report-checkmate-vol-3-fall-of-the-wall\/","title":{"rendered":"Comic Book Report: Checkmate Vol. 3: Fall of the Wall"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"clear: both;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_5B85svs4ENE\/TFkRyqxRY0I\/AAAAAAABCLs\/ypOCoNWiS6g\/s1600\/checkmate3.jpg\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_5B85svs4ENE\/TFkRyqxRY0I\/AAAAAAABCLs\/ypOCoNWiS6g\/s320\/checkmate3.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>I&#8217;m not really spoiling anything when I tell you that the &#8220;Wall&#8221; in the title refers to <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Amanda_Waller\">Amanda Waller<\/a>, Checkmate&#8217;s &#8220;White Queen.&#8221;  I mean, the cover image tells you <i>that<\/i>.  And you know she&#8217;ll be back.  That gal always manages to land on her feet.<\/p>\n<p>One of the major B-stories in this arc is the workplace romance between Mr. Terrific and Sasha Bordeaux, which, for my money, wasn&#8217;t really necessary, but served as a nice counterpoint to the constant threats to life-death-reputation-career that these characters endure.  Rucka knows how to torture his protagonists.<\/p>\n<p>This volume ends with a standalone tale focusing on the Black Queen&#8217;s Knight, Josephine Tautin, a.k.a. <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mademoiselle_Marie\">&#8220;Mademoiselle Marie;&#8221;<\/a> and then there&#8217;s a coda titled <i>La Vie en Sang<\/i>, and that alone may be worth the price of the book for some.  Stories of heroic sacrifice always get me.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Buy the book:<\/span> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.powells.com\/partner\/34809\/biblio\/1401217885?p_isbn\">Powell&#8217;s<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ISBN=1401217885\/curtiscchensfree\">Amazon<\/a> (affiliate links)<\/p>\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>I&#8217;m not really spoiling anything when I tell you that the &#8220;Wall&#8221; in the title refers to Amanda Waller, Checkmate&#8217;s &#8220;White Queen.&#8221; I mean, the cover image tells you that. And you know she&#8217;ll be back. That gal always manages&#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-740","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\/740","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=740"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/740\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=740"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=740"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=740"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}