{"id":1561,"date":"2013-08-10T17:50:44","date_gmt":"2013-08-10T17:50:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/skullculls.wordpress.com\/?p=1561"},"modified":"2013-08-10T17:50:44","modified_gmt":"2013-08-10T17:50:44","slug":"comicsphere-criminal-coward-by-ed-brubaker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/skullcull.com\/?p=1561","title":{"rendered":"Comicsphere: Criminal: Coward by Ed Brubaker"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\\\"http:\/\/skullcull.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/criminal-vol-1-coward__span.jpg\\\"><img class=\\\"alignnone  wp-image-1562\\\" alt=\\\"criminal-vol.-1-coward__span\\\" src=\\\"http:\/\/skullcull.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/criminal-vol-1-coward__span.jpg\\\" width=\\\"360\\\" height=\\\"540\\\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Ed Brubaker is one of those surefooted writers who you know you can rely on to deliver a perfectly paced, character-driven piece of writing. This is something I find pretty impressive when I consider the different genres that I have followed him across.<\/p>\n<p>I first read this story as a digital copy, so having the physical object in my hands and seeing the richness of Sean Philips art (someone else who is also surefooted, and someone I have followed through the many permutations of his career) is a real gift.<\/p>\n<p>I recently watched <em>The Friends of Eddie Coyle<\/em> and this book has that kind of spirit &#8211; one of those seventies crime films. Tension, paranoia, that feeling of inevitability &#8211; of heading towards doom, and not able to stop it, even though the character recognises the danger of the forward path.<\/p>\n<p>This whole series was a tour de force and I couldn\\&#8217;t recommend it more highly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ed Brubaker is one of those surefooted writers who you know you can rely on to deliver a perfectly paced, character-driven piece of writing. This is something I find pretty impressive when I consider the different genres that I have <a href=\"http:\/\/skullcull.com\/?p=1561\"> 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],"tags":[368,770,771,844,999],"class_list":["post-1561","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-comic","category-comicsphere","category-update","tag-comics","tag-muse-hick","tag-musehick","tag-paul-grimsley","tag-skull-cull"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/skullcull.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1561","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=1561"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/skullcull.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1561\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/skullcull.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/skullcull.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1561"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/skullcull.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}