{"id":452,"date":"2008-06-03T16:11:05","date_gmt":"2008-06-03T16:11:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/skullcull.wordpress.com\/?p=452"},"modified":"2008-06-03T16:11:05","modified_gmt":"2008-06-03T16:11:05","slug":"comicsphere-the-exterminators-by-simon-oliver-tony-moore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/skullcull.com\/?p=452","title":{"rendered":"Comicsphere: The Exterminators by Simon Oliver & Tony Moore"},"content":{"rendered":"

\\\"Exterminators\\\"<\/a><\/p>\n

I came to this really late and I hear that it has been cancelled, which is a real shame. It was a really fun book and the art and the storytelling meshed really well. Like most of the best stories this was a really character driven piece and reminded me of some of the best television shows that are being produced at the moment — I know that\\’s a really lazy comparison; but sometimes you just have to reach for the shorthand. At least saying it is like CSI <\/em>maybe or even Sopranos<\/em> is not as tiresome as saying filmic (which I have prbably used way too much in my lifetime).<\/p>\n

When I say it is like those shows I am thinking of it in the sense that the characters are allowed to breathe and grow within the framework of the story. I suppose you could say it\\’s high concept in that it has an arc that it follows through all of the issues but I don\\’t think that gets in the way of the storytelling and there are plenty of ideas to keep you interested along the way.<\/p>\n

There\\’s drama, comedy, intrigue and real development for all of the characters. I like it when the writers of a series feel free to just throw you a curveball once in a while. If someone can\\’t take a risk with their characters then something about a story is never going to quite fly right. It was always my problem with Star Trek —<\/em> that damned re-set button that kept the characters in a state of suspended animation. This is an interesting story and well told — it definitely deserves to be read by more people than there are apparently reading it. Sometimes people don\\’t appreciate something until it\\’s gone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I came to this really late and I hear that it has been cancelled, which is a real shame. It was a really fun book and the art and the storytelling meshed really well. Like most of the best stories Read more…<\/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":[11,20,21,22,37,40,145,168,171,181,182],"tags":[322,324,368,959,991,1024,1065,1115,1134,1193,1197],"class_list":["post-452","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-blogging","category-blogosphere","category-book","category-comic","category-comicsphere","category-sci-fi-2","category-turn-the-page","category-updates","category-words","category-writers","tag-bug-brothers","tag-bugs","tag-comics","tag-science-fiction","tag-simon-oliver","tag-story","tag-the-exterminators","tag-tony-moore","tag-update","tag-writer","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\/452","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=452"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/skullcull.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/452\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/skullcull.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=452"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/skullcull.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=452"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/skullcull.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=452"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}