{"id":38,"date":"2009-10-05T20:10:53","date_gmt":"2009-10-05T19:10:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/?p=38"},"modified":"2009-10-06T17:53:10","modified_gmt":"2009-10-06T16:53:10","slug":"last-week-and-the-week-before-in-comics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/?p=38","title":{"rendered":"Last Week (And The Week Before) In Comics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Evening all, how are you? You look great! Smashing.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m back from my holidays, and there&#8217;s a ridiculously big pile of comics to review, so for this week only, we&#8217;re going to try something a bit different &#8211; reviews in haiku form. Haikviews, if you will. Anyway. On with it!<\/p>\n<p><strong>RUNAWAYS 14<\/strong><\/p>\n<address><em>Wow, just&#8230; really, wow.<\/em><em> <\/em><\/address>\n<address><em>I did not see that coming<\/em><\/address>\n<address><em>Which is ironic.<\/em><\/address>\n<p><strong>SHANG-CHI, MASTER OF KUNG FU<\/strong><\/p>\n<address>This book is crazy.<\/address>\n<address>Crazy in a good way, though.<\/address>\n<address>Kung-Fu Motorbikes!<\/address>\n<p><strong>THE WEB 1<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<address>Exposition yay!<\/address>\n<address>Leonardi-esque artwork.<\/address>\n<address>Better than The Shield.<\/address>\n<p><strong>UNDERGROUND 1<\/strong><\/p>\n<address>Jeff Parker writing,<\/address>\n<address>Steve Lieber on art duties&#8230;<\/address>\n<address>Just buy it, OK?<\/address>\n<p><strong>SUPERMAN: SECRET ORIGIN 1<\/strong><\/p>\n<address>Thousandth retelling,<br \/>\n<\/address>\n<address>Starring Young Christopher Reeve<\/address>\n<address>As a bobblehead.<\/address>\n<p><strong>DETECTIVE COMICS 857<\/strong><\/p>\n<address>Gorgeous art again<\/address>\n<address>Plus a heck of an ending.<\/address>\n<address>Backup strip good too.<\/address>\n<p><strong>DARK X-MEN: THE CONFESSION<\/strong><\/p>\n<address>X-Leaders spill beans;<\/address>\n<address>Their mutant power is chat.<\/address>\n<address>Can we move on now?<\/address>\n<p><strong>X-FACTOR 49<\/strong><\/p>\n<address>Gay jokes and plot twists<br \/>\n<\/address>\n<address>To cut a long story short&#8230;<\/address>\n<address>Yeah, too late for that.<\/address>\n<p><strong>AVENGERS INITIATIVE 28<\/strong><\/p>\n<address>Gage is on form here.<br \/>\n<\/address>\n<address>New Warriors fans take heed:<\/address>\n<address>Really cool last page.<\/address>\n<p><strong>AMAZING SPIDER-MAN 606-607<\/strong><\/p>\n<address>Spidey and Black Cat<\/address>\n<address>Have romantic interlude.<\/address>\n<address>Diablo is lame.<\/address>\n<p><strong>INCREDIBLE HERCULES 135<\/strong><\/p>\n<address>Amadeus Cho<\/address>\n<address>Fights Pythagoras Dupree.<br \/>\n<\/address>\n<address>This book is awesome.<\/address>\n<p><strong>SPIDER-WOMAN 1<\/strong><\/p>\n<address>Story is a drag<\/address>\n<address>Art is really lovely, though.<\/address>\n<address>Cover? Ludicrous.<br \/>\n<\/address>\n<p>So, that was what I read. And you?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Evening all, how are you? You look great! Smashing. I&#8217;m back from my holidays, and there&#8217;s a ridiculously big pile of comics to review, so for this week only, we&#8217;re going to try something a bit different &#8211; reviews in haiku form. Haikviews, if you will. Anyway. On with it! 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