{"id":304,"date":"2009-03-02T06:00:38","date_gmt":"2009-03-01T18:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/?p=304"},"modified":"2009-03-02T06:00:38","modified_gmt":"2009-03-01T18:00:38","slug":"comicbookhunter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/comicbookhunter\/","title":{"rendered":"(Comic)bookhunter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: Courier;\">Decades&#8217; of comic-reading made me pick up <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/500-Essential-Graphic-Novels-Ultimate\/dp\/0061474517\" target=\"_blank\">500 Essential Graphic Novels<\/a> the other day.  <i>Two hundred<\/i>, I thought to myself, <i>I bet I&#8217;ve read two hundred <b>easy<\/b><\/i>.<\/p>\n<p>I barely managed ninety*.<\/p>\n<p>And that was by including characters I <i>knew<\/i> I&#8217;d read but couldn&#8217;t exactly recall if I&#8217;d read the title listed in the book.  I definitely remember reading <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lucky_Luke\" target=\"_blank\">Lucky Luke<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/ABC_Warriors\" target=\"_blank\">A.B.C. Warriors<\/a> but I can&#8217;t recall specifically chuckling over <i>A Lucky Luke Adventure: Billy the Kid<\/i> or acting-out mek-carnage from <i>A.B.C. Warriors: The Black Hole<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p>Meantime, I plan to work my way through a list that includes &#8211;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bryan_Talbot\" target=\"_blank\">Bryan Talbot<\/a>&#8216;s <i>Alice in Sunderland<\/i><,\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Dave_Sim\" target=\"_blank\">Dave Sim<\/a>&#8216;s towering <i>Cerebus<\/i>,<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Frank_Stack\" target=\"_blank\">Frank Stack<\/a>&#8216;s <i>The New Adventures of Jesus: Second Coming<\/i>,<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Keiji_Nakazawa\" target=\"_blank\">Keiji Nakazawa<\/a>&#8216;s <i>Barefoot Gen<\/i> series,<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.robertagregory.com\/New%20Site\/bitchy.html\" target=\"_blank\">Roberta Gregory<\/a>&#8216;s <i>Life&#8217;s a Bitch: The Bitchy Bitch Chronicles<\/i>,<\/li>\n<li><b>Mark Millar<\/b> and <b>Bryan Hitch<\/b>&#8216;s <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ultimates\" target=\"_blank\"><i>The Ultimates<\/i><\/a>,<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8211; and, based on its premise and the cover art, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shigabooks.com\" target=\"_blank\">Jason Shiga<\/a>&#8216;s <i>Bookhunter<\/i>:<\/p>\n<div style=\"margin-left: 25px; margin-right: 25px\">The year is 1973. A priceless book has been stolen from the Oakland Public Library. A crack team of Bookhunters (aka. library police) have less than three days to recover the stolen item. It&#8217;s a race against the clock as our heroes use every tool in their arsenal of library equipment to find the book and the mastermind who stole it.<\/div>\n<p>\n<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.sparkplugcomicbooks.com\/books\/bookhunter\/art\/bookhuntercoverlarge.jpg?w=525\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p><small>*&nbsp; Eighteen lousy percent.  At least I did better with the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/chart\/top\" target=\"_blank\">IMDb top 250<\/a> list, making <a href=\"http:\/\/plutor.org\/filmaddict\/?f=pvn55b2s\" target=\"_blank\">67.6%<\/a> (though I suspect if that list went to 500, my batting average would drop significantly).  (Film Addict link courtesy of <a href=\"http:\/\/miracle-pictures.com\/funerals_and_snakes\/2008\/12\/16\/film-addiction\/\" target=\"_blank\">Dan Slevin<\/a>.)<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Decades&#8217; of comic-reading made me pick up 500 Essential Graphic Novels the other day. Two hundred, I thought to myself, I bet I&#8217;ve read two hundred easy. I barely managed ninety*. And that was by including characters I knew I&#8217;d read but couldn&#8217;t exactly recall if I&#8217;d read the title listed in the book. I &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/comicbookhunter\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;(Comic)bookhunter&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[53,54,55,56,57],"class_list":["post-304","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-comics","tag-barefoot-gen","tag-bryan-talbot","tag-dave-sim","tag-roberta-gregory","tag-the-new-adventures-of-jesus"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=304"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}