{"id":1025,"date":"2007-09-11T06:40:58","date_gmt":"2007-09-11T06:40:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/?p=1025"},"modified":"2007-09-11T06:43:06","modified_gmt":"2007-09-11T06:43:06","slug":"maintenance-volume-1-its-a-dirty-job","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/2007\/09\/11\/maintenance-volume-1-its-a-dirty-job\/","title":{"rendered":"Maintenance Volume 1: It&#8217;s a Dirty Job"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/09\/main1.jpg\" alt=\"Maintenance Volume 1: It's a Dirty Job\" \/>\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>By <strong>Jim Massey<\/strong> &amp; <strong>Robbi Rodriguez<\/strong> (Oni Press)<br \/>\nISBN: 978-1932-6646-21<\/p>\n<p>There are a lot of comedy comics around these days, many of which target their own playgrounds and make delightful sport with their own crowd. <strong>Maintenance<\/strong> is one such, and it&#8217;s a great one.<\/p>\n<p>Creators Jim Massey and Robbi Rodriguez obviously love dumb movies, comic books and the wackiest of Sci-Fi trivia, and their ability to translate that into funny, fast-paced and magnificently more-ish reading should take them far.<\/p>\n<p>Doug and Manny are just a couple of working stiffs trying to get by. Janitors, in fact. The job&#8217;s not glamorous, not well-paid, and is often physically unpleasant. Oh, and potentially lethal too. Doug and Manny do clean-up at MT, Harmony, the secret testing ground of the World&#8217;s most successful evil think tank.<\/p>\n<p>When not bitching and griping they can be found getting rid of the less savoury detritus of the world&#8217;s maddest scientists \u00e2\u20ac\u201c the slime from Marauding Gigamorphs, Man-Sharks, Time-bending troglodytes, mutant peanut armies, explosions, carnivorous Zombie Kittens, duplicitous imbecilic aliens and, of course, the dripping pools of sarcasm left by all those ungrateful boffins. How are a couple of simple working guys going to get by?<\/p>\n<p>With hysterically, knowing wit, as little effort as possible and your undying critical and financial support for this brilliant series.<\/p>\n<p>\u00c2\u00a9 2006, 2007 Jim Massey &amp; Robbi Rodriguez. All Rights Reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00c2\u00a0 By Jim Massey &amp; Robbi Rodriguez (Oni Press) ISBN: 978-1932-6646-21 There are a lot of comedy comics around these days, many of which target their own playgrounds and make delightful sport with their own crowd. Maintenance is one such, and it&#8217;s a great one. Creators Jim Massey and Robbi Rodriguez obviously love dumb movies, &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/2007\/09\/11\/maintenance-volume-1-its-a-dirty-job\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Maintenance Volume 1: It&#8217;s a Dirty Job&#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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1025","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-graphic-novels"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4AFj-gx","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1025","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=1025"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1025\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1025"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1025"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1025"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}