{"id":771,"date":"2010-06-23T15:43:00","date_gmt":"2010-06-23T22:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/2010\/06\/23\/comic-book-report-invincible-iron-man-vol-3-worlds-most-wanted-book-2\/"},"modified":"2010-06-23T15:43:00","modified_gmt":"2010-06-23T22:43:00","slug":"comic-book-report-invincible-iron-man-vol-3-worlds-most-wanted-book-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/2010\/06\/23\/comic-book-report-invincible-iron-man-vol-3-worlds-most-wanted-book-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Comic Book Report: Invincible Iron Man, Vol. 3: World&#8217;s Most Wanted, Book 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"clear: both;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_5B85svs4ENE\/TB0bvTypkzI\/AAAAAAABBnc\/cHG3d21t_OQ\/s1600\/51c4BFTXqbL._SL500_.jpg\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_5B85svs4ENE\/TB0bvTypkzI\/AAAAAAABBnc\/cHG3d21t_OQ\/s320\/51c4BFTXqbL._SL500_.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>This is one hell of a good book.  Now, I&#8217;m not actually a big Iron Man fan, so perhaps I was more predisposed than some &#8220;true believers&#8221; to enjoy this story arc, which focuses on some strong female supporting characters and a very atypical portrayal of Tony Stark.  It also ends on a big cliffhanger, and while there&#8217;s no real question as to what will eventually happen, I&#8217;m almost curious enough to start subscribing to the monthly title.  <i>Almost.<\/i><\/p>\n<p>Side note:  I was fortunate enough to see Matt Fraction at <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/W00tstock#v2.1:_Saturday.2C_May_8.2C_2010\">w00tstock 2.1<\/a>, where he gave a great presentation about creating comics and his personal history with the medium.  He might be giving a repeat performance at <a href=\"http:\/\/w00tstock.net\/2010\/07\/22\/072210-san-diego-ca-4th-b\/\">w00tstock 2.4 (San Diego Comic-Con)<\/a> next month.  If you&#8217;re in the neighborhood, you&#8217;d be a fool not to check it out.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Buy the book:<\/span> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.powells.com\/partner\/34809\/biblio\/0785136851?p_isbn\">Powell&#8217;s<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ISBN=0785136851\/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 hell of a good book. Now, I&#8217;m not actually a big Iron Man fan, so perhaps I was more predisposed than some &#8220;true believers&#8221; to enjoy this story arc, which focuses on some strong female supporting characters&#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":[51,62,64],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-771","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-comics","category-geeky"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/771","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=771"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/771\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=771"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=771"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=771"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}