{"id":757,"date":"2010-07-15T10:35:00","date_gmt":"2010-07-15T17:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/2010\/07\/15\/comic-book-report-alias-vol-2-come-home\/"},"modified":"2010-07-15T10:35:00","modified_gmt":"2010-07-15T17:35:00","slug":"comic-book-report-alias-vol-2-come-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/2010\/07\/15\/comic-book-report-alias-vol-2-come-home\/","title":{"rendered":"Comic Book Report: Alias Vol. 2: Come Home"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"clear: both;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_5B85svs4ENE\/TDLS4Fj9jhI\/AAAAAAABB-4\/l8wDs3ZnQlE\/s1600\/Alias+vol.+2.jpg\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_5B85svs4ENE\/TDLS4Fj9jhI\/AAAAAAABB-4\/l8wDs3ZnQlE\/s320\/Alias+vol.+2.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>This is one case where I was attracted to a title because of its creators&#8211;primarily the writer, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jinxworld.com\/\">Brian Michael Bendis<\/a>&#8211;but became less enthused after experiencing the actual work.  <i>Alias<\/i> is decent, but this volume in particular seemed rather self-indulgent and more about Big Important Issues than actual <b>story<\/b>.  I don&#8217;t deny that the Issues addressed are Big and Important, but the presentation here just didn&#8217;t work for me.  YMMV.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Buy the book:<\/span> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.powells.com\/partner\/34809\/biblio\/0785111239?p_isbn\">Powell&#8217;s<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ISBN=0785111239\/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>This is one case where I was attracted to a title because of its creators&#8211;primarily the writer, Brian Michael Bendis&#8211;but became less enthused after experiencing the actual work. Alias is decent, but this volume in particular seemed rather self-indulgent and&#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-757","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\/757","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=757"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/757\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=757"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=757"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=757"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}