{"id":1887,"date":"2004-03-18T09:16:21","date_gmt":"2004-03-18T14:16:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/vardibidian\/2004\/03\/18\/1887.html"},"modified":"2018-03-12T16:45:24","modified_gmt":"2018-03-12T21:45:24","slug":"book-report-creature-tech","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/2004\/03\/18\/book-report-creature-tech\/","title":{"rendered":"Book Report: Creature Tech"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Your Humble Blogger&#8217;s local library has a surprisingly good collection of graphic novels and such. Although the cover of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tennapel.com\/\">Doug TenNapel<\/a>&#8217;s <i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.topshelfcomix.com\/catalog.php?type=3&amp;title=54\">Creature Tech<\/a><\/i> (Marietta: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.topshelfcomix.com\/\">Top Shelf<\/a> 2002) wasn&#8217;t all that enticing, a quick flip through the pages showed a pretty agreeable style, and a lot of monsters. It turns out that there are only a few monsters (well, maybe a dozen) but they change shape (and bodies) enough to keep things interesting.\n<p>There&#8217;s an alien who learns kung fu from chop-socky movies, the Shroud of Turin (not that fake one), a surprisingly heavy religious message, and the sort of &#8216;snappy&#8217; action-adventure movie dialogue that is supposed to be funny, but is only actually funny as a parody of itself. Which I think is what&#8217;s going on here. You know, the joke itself isn&#8217;t funny, but what&#8217;s funny is that the hero (or the villain) bothers making a joke in the middle of a fight, and that the stupid joke is the best he can come up with?\n<p>Oh, well.\n<p>It&#8217;s a pretty darned entertaining book, although clearly not as good as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.comicbookresources.com\/news\/newsitem.cgi?id=3326\"><I>Hench<\/I><\/a> is going to be.\n<p>Redintegro Iraq,<br>-Vardibidian.\n<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Your Humble Blogger\u2019s local library has a surprisingly good collection of graphic novels and such. Although the cover of Doug TenNapel\u2019s Creature Tech (Marietta: Top Shelf 2002) wasn\u2019t all that enticing, a quick flip through the pages showed a pretty&#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-1887","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\/1887","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=1887"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1887\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16957,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1887\/revisions\/16957"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1887"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1887"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1887"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}