{"id":1477,"date":"2013-07-31T05:06:47","date_gmt":"2013-07-31T05:06:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/skullculls.wordpress.com\/?p=1477"},"modified":"2013-07-31T05:06:47","modified_gmt":"2013-07-31T05:06:47","slug":"comicsphere-the-war-machine-by-dave-gibbons-will-simpson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/skullcull.com\/?p=1477","title":{"rendered":"Comicsphere: The War Machine by Dave Gibbons &#038; Will Simpson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\\\"http:\/\/skullcull.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/war-machine-gn.jpg\\\"><img class=\\\"alignnone  wp-image-1481\\\" alt=\\\"War-Machine-GN\\\" src=\\\"http:\/\/skullcull.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/war-machine-gn.jpg\\\" width=\\\"280\\\" height=\\\"390\\\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>2000ad was one of those things that shaped my whole sensibility. Before I read a science fiction book or knew what dystopian really was, 2000ad had been warping my mind and giving me dark thoughts about stories I wanted to tell.<\/p>\n<p>Judge Dredd, Rogue Trooper, and Strontium Dog were the holy trinity of comic book heroes for me, and the haunted figure of Rogue, trudging through the scarred landscapes of Nu-Earth was in some ways the darkest of them all.<\/p>\n<p>The War Machine was a reboot that didn\\&#8217;t feel like a reboot &#8211; it never came across as some flashy or unnecessary repackaging of the Rogue Trooper mythos. It was immediate;y something engaging and organic that grabbed you by the shoulders and shook you awake. I remember the comic being at a particular high point at that time, and seeing the next instalment of this story ranked as a moment to be waited for.<\/p>\n<p>Beautiful and terrible and in the way it was painted, something new. I had missed a couple of episodes the first time around &#8211; I got to read them later as illegal downloads, so getting hold this in my hand feels great.<\/p>\n<p>The art still stuns, and the story still packs a visceral punch. That it is not Rogue (something firmly established later in chronology), that is different to Rogue Trooper, means nothing &#8211; it has the same spirit, marrow-deep; rings with the same authenticity. i believe it is books like this that elevate the comic to a state of art.<\/p>\n<p>Buy it &#8211; it is a great thing to own.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2000ad was one of those things that shaped my whole sensibility. Before I read a science fiction book or knew what dystopian really was, 2000ad had been warping my mind and giving me dark thoughts about stories I wanted to <a href=\"http:\/\/skullcull.com\/?p=1477\"> Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[37,40,170,171],"tags":[306,311,368,770,771,844,999,1197],"class_list":["post-1477","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-comic","category-comicsphere","category-update","category-updates","tag-book","tag-books","tag-comics","tag-muse-hick","tag-musehick","tag-paul-grimsley","tag-skull-cull","tag-writing"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/skullcull.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1477","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/skullcull.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/skullcull.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/skullcull.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/skullcull.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1477"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/skullcull.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1477\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/skullcull.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/skullcull.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/skullcull.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}