{"id":817,"date":"2010-04-19T01:27:00","date_gmt":"2010-04-19T08:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/2010\/04\/19\/comic-book-report-final-crisis-aftermath-run\/"},"modified":"2010-04-19T01:27:00","modified_gmt":"2010-04-19T08:27:00","slug":"comic-book-report-final-crisis-aftermath-run","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/2010\/04\/19\/comic-book-report-final-crisis-aftermath-run\/","title":{"rendered":"Comic Book Report: Final Crisis Aftermath: Run"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_5B85svs4ENE\/S8guPLMNNsI\/AAAAAAABARE\/Pv2JF3hIwX0\/s1600\/0001uku.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 206px; height: 320px;\" src=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_5B85svs4ENE\/S8guPLMNNsI\/AAAAAAABARE\/Pv2JF3hIwX0\/s320\/0001uku.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\"id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5460665386423629506\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Dark, ironic, and hilarious.  Writer Matthew Sturges tells the story of the Human Flame, a second-rate criminal who was involved in the murder of the Martian Manhunter, and manages to make him completely human, if not wholly sympathetic.  Plus, <span style=\"font-style:italic;\">actual<\/span> science&#8211;not made-up technobabble\/magic&#8211;saves the day in the end.<\/p>\n<p>And how can you <span style=\"font-style:italic;\">not<\/span> enjoy a supervillain named <span style=\"font-weight:bold;\">Condiment King<\/span> who speaks in bad food puns (&#8220;I&#8217;m so glad you <span style=\"font-weight:bold;\">mustard<\/span> up the courage&#8230;&#8221;)?  That&#8217;s straight out of <span style=\"font-style:italic;\">The Tick<\/span>.  And we love the Tick.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight:bold;\">Buy the book:<\/span> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.powells.com\/partner\/34809\/biblio\/140122606X?p_isbn\">Powell&#8217;s<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ISBN=140122606X\/curtiscchensfree\">Amazon<\/a> (affiliate links)<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/snout.org\/HotSheet\/CKL.jpg\" alt=\"CKL\" title=\"CKL\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dark, ironic, and hilarious. Writer Matthew Sturges tells the story of the Human Flame, a second-rate criminal who was involved in the murder of the Martian Manhunter, and manages to make him completely human, if not wholly sympathetic. Plus, actual&#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-817","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\/817","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=817"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/817\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}