{"id":8039,"date":"2009-06-20T14:32:56","date_gmt":"2009-06-20T21:32:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=8039"},"modified":"2009-06-20T14:32:56","modified_gmt":"2009-06-20T21:32:56","slug":"preview-of-first-issue-of-underground-comic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=8039","title":{"rendered":"Preview of first issue of Underground comic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/underground.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-8040\" title=\"underground\" src=\"http:\/\/www.amptoons.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/underground-334x499.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"334\" height=\"499\" \/><\/a>No, not that kind of underground comic!<\/p>\n<p>Steve Lieber&#8217;s and Jeff Parker&#8217;s new adventure comic <a href=\"http:\/\/www.undergroundthecomic.com\/\">Underground <\/a>looks neat. And I say that because apparently much of it will take place deep in caves (the heroine is a park ranger), which is a setting I think is cool times 1000. You can <a href=\"http:\/\/www.undergroundthecomic.com\/issue-1\/\">read a free preview of the first issue here<\/a>. Steve ((Full disclosure: Steve is someone I know and like.)) just got <a href=\"http:\/\/www.undergroundthecomic.com\/2009\/06\/stolen-laptop\/\">robbed<\/a>, which is putting a crimp in his publicity plans, so he&#8217;s asking people to link the Underground website so that folks know the comic exists.<\/p>\n<p>Plus: Female protagonist who doesn&#8217;t wear ridiculous clothing! Is that even legal in a comic coming from Image?<\/p>\n<p>The free preview is mostly setup (it&#8217;s the first issue of five), but the last adventure-comic-by-Steve-with-a-female-protagonist I read, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Whiteout-Greg-Rucka\/dp\/0966712714\">Whiteout <\/a>(which is about to be a movie), completely rocked.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No, not that kind of underground comic! Steve Lieber&#8217;s and Jeff Parker&#8217;s new adventure comic Underground looks neat. And I say that because apparently much of it will take place deep in caves (the heroine is a park ranger), which &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=8039\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8039","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cartooning-comics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8039","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8039"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8039\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8039"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8039"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}