{"id":1,"date":"2007-02-02T10:58:41","date_gmt":"2007-02-02T10:58:41","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2012-03-04T14:08:06","modified_gmt":"2012-03-04T14:08:06","slug":"hello-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/2007\/02\/02\/hello-world\/","title":{"rendered":"Batman &#038; the Monster Men"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure style=\"width: 260px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a title=\"Batman &amp; the Monster Men\" href=\"http:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/02\/bmmm.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/02\/bmmm.jpg\" alt=\"Batman &amp; the Monster Men\" width=\"260\" height=\"405\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Batman &amp; the Monster Men<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>By Matt Wagner<\/p>\n<p>DC Comics ISBN 1-84576-346-7<\/p>\n<p><strong>Grendel<\/strong> and <strong>Mage<\/strong> creator Wagner returns to the Dark Knight to update one of the earliest adventures (from <strong>Batman<\/strong> #1 no less) as evil genius Hugo Strange uses the hyper-thyroidal failures of his genetic experimentation as a means of procuring funds for further research. Since he&#8217;s evil that means lots of robbery, mayhem and half-eaten citizenry and mobsters. Set during the early days of Batman&#8217;s career, we&#8217;re also introduced to his first long-time romantic interest, millionaire&#8217;s daughter Julie Madison, who will also feature strongly in Wagner&#8217;s proposed sequel, <strong>The Mad Monk<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Solid, stylish story-telling make this a real treat for old-timers and new fans alike, and the clean, captivating art and colour is irresistible.<\/p>\n<p>\u00c2\u00a9 2006 DC Comics. All Rights Reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Matt Wagner DC Comics ISBN 1-84576-346-7 Grendel and Mage creator Wagner returns to the Dark Knight to update one of the earliest adventures (from Batman #1 no less) as evil genius Hugo Strange uses the hyper-thyroidal failures of his genetic experimentation as a means of procuring funds for further research. Since he&#8217;s evil that &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/2007\/02\/02\/hello-world\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Batman &#038; the Monster Men&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"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":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[10,76],"tags":[198],"class_list":["post-1","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-batman","category-dc-superhero","tag-batman"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4AFj-1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}