{"id":1881,"date":"2008-02-27T09:43:06","date_gmt":"2008-02-27T09:43:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/?p=1881"},"modified":"2008-02-27T09:43:06","modified_gmt":"2008-02-27T09:43:06","slug":"spider-man-spirits-of-the-earth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/2008\/02\/27\/spider-man-spirits-of-the-earth\/","title":{"rendered":"Spider-Man: Spirits of the Earth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>A MARVEL GRAPHIC NOVEL<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u00c2\u00a0<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/02\/amazing-spider-man-spirits-of-the-earth.jpg\" alt=\"Spider-Man: Spirits of the Earth\" \/><\/p>\n<p>By Charles Vess (Marvel)<br \/>\nISBN: 0- 87135-692-9<\/p>\n<p>Correct me if I&#8217;m wrong but I don&#8217;t think this truly beautiful painted graphic novel has been re-issued since it first came out in 1990. If that is the case then it&#8217;s an appalling oversight as <strong>Spirits of the Earth<\/strong> is one of the prettiest graphic novels ever produced, not to say one of the most entertaining Spider-Man adventures ever told.<\/p>\n<p>Newlyweds Mary Jane and Peter Parker are astounded and delighted to discover that an unknown relative has left her a castle deep in the Scottish Highlands. Setting off for a second honeymoon they soon become embroiled in ancient magic and high-tech abominations courtesy of the Celtic branch of the perfidious Mutants and Millionaires organisation The Hellfire Club\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6<\/p>\n<p>Ghoulies, Ghosties and villainous super-criminals combine with some of the best artwork you&#8217;ve ever seen for a truly wonderful adventure that desperately needs to be on your bookshelf. My copy also contains a lovely pictorial travelogue by Vess entitled<em> \u00e2\u20ac\u0153A Scottish Journey\u00e2\u20ac\u009d.<\/em> Hopefully yours will too once you track down this little gem.<\/p>\n<p>\u00c2\u00a9 1990 Marvel Entertainment Group\/Marvel Characters, Inc. All Rights Reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A MARVEL GRAPHIC NOVEL \u00c2\u00a0 By Charles Vess (Marvel) ISBN: 0- 87135-692-9 Correct me if I&#8217;m wrong but I don&#8217;t think this truly beautiful painted graphic novel has been re-issued since it first came out in 1990. If that is the case then it&#8217;s an appalling oversight as Spirits of the Earth is one of &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/2008\/02\/27\/spider-man-spirits-of-the-earth\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Spider-Man: Spirits of the Earth&#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":[1,39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1881","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-graphic-novels","category-spider-man"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4AFj-ul","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1881","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=1881"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1881\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1881"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1881"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}