{"id":797,"date":"2010-05-12T23:02:00","date_gmt":"2010-05-13T06:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/2010\/05\/12\/comic-book-report-checkmate-pawn-breaks\/"},"modified":"2010-05-12T23:02:00","modified_gmt":"2010-05-13T06:02:00","slug":"comic-book-report-checkmate-pawn-breaks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/2010\/05\/12\/comic-book-report-checkmate-pawn-breaks\/","title":{"rendered":"Comic Book Report: Checkmate: Pawn Breaks"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"clear: both;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_5B85svs4ENE\/S-uih8OnJXI\/AAAAAAABAuY\/JN0HztODS1Q\/s1600\/51swnc3-tWL._SS500_.jpg\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_5B85svs4ENE\/S-uih8OnJXI\/AAAAAAABAuY\/JN0HztODS1Q\/s320\/51swnc3-tWL._SS500_.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>One of my few complaints about the <i>Checkmate<\/i> TPBs is that they&#8217;re not clearly labeled with volume numbers.  Yes, I&#8217;m a completist, and somewhat OCD about it; I like to read serialized stories in order, and I like them to have proper endings.<\/p>\n<p>Granted, the arcs in <i>Checkmate<\/i> generally stand alone pretty well&#8211;this book collects five issues and two self-contained storylines&#8211;but it bugs me if I don&#8217;t at least understand the chronology of the world.  (There&#8217;s a rant about that coming next week.  I know you can&#8217;t wait.)<\/p>\n<p>What else?  Oh, yeah, still loving it.  Rucka does a nice job of sprinkling just enough superheroic and magical elements on top of a solid spy-fi foundation to put a fresh spin on the genre without making it too ridiculous.  And that&#8217;s quite a feat in a book which features a talking chimp.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Buy the book:<\/span> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.powells.com\/partner\/34809\/biblio\/1401214452?p_isbn\">Powell&#8217;s<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ISBN=1401214452\/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>One of my few complaints about the Checkmate TPBs is that they&#8217;re not clearly labeled with volume numbers. Yes, I&#8217;m a completist, and somewhat OCD about it; I like to read serialized stories in order, and I like them to&#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-797","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\/797","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=797"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/797\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}