{"id":10321,"date":"2006-10-23T11:16:13","date_gmt":"2006-10-23T15:16:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/vardibidian\/2006\/10\/23\/10321.html"},"modified":"2018-03-12T16:55:19","modified_gmt":"2018-03-12T21:55:19","slug":"book-report-the-best-of-the-sp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/2006\/10\/23\/book-report-the-best-of-the-sp\/","title":{"rendered":"Book Report: The Best of The Spirit"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I&#8217;ve read some of the later Will Eisner stuff, and I&#8217;ve liked it and all, but it hasn&#8217;t knocked me out. So when I saw <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dccomics.com\/graphic_novels\/?gn=4646\">The Best of The Spirit<\/a> at the library, I picked it up without much anticipation. And, in fact, I enjoyed it, without being knocked out by it. There were a few stories in it that were very good, and a couple of duds, but on the whole it was pleasant but unremarkable.\n<p>Which is remarkable. Since from everything I&#8217;ve heard, this stuff knocked off the heads of just about every major artist in the field, for two generations now. May be it&#8217;s just because I&#8217;m reading backwards, having not read any action or hero comics in my youth, and essentially started my comics experience with Miracleman in 1986 or something. Or perhaps it&#8217;s because I&#8217;m still not much of a comics reader, and much of the visual stuff, the tricks of narrative, the cleverness of it passes me by. Not sure.\n<p>Anyway, it&#8217;s nice to have this stuff available. I wonder what my Perfect Reader (who adores Calvin and Hobbes, and now reads the comics in the newspaper) will think of the form when she gets to the hard stuff.\n<p><I>chazak, chazak, v&#8217;nitchazek<\/I>,<br>-Vardibidian.\n<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019ve read some of the later Will Eisner stuff, and I\u2019ve liked it and all, but it hasn\u2019t knocked me out. So when I saw The Best of The Spirit at the library, I picked it up without much anticipation&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[194],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10321","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-report"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10321","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10321"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10321\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17852,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10321\/revisions\/17852"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}