{"id":2003,"date":"2008-03-31T06:16:14","date_gmt":"2008-03-31T06:16:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/?p=2003"},"modified":"2008-03-30T15:17:02","modified_gmt":"2008-03-30T15:17:02","slug":"outsiderscheckmate-checkout","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/2008\/03\/31\/outsiderscheckmate-checkout\/","title":{"rendered":"Outsiders\/Checkmate: Checkout"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/03\/outsiders-checkmate-checkout.jpg\" alt=\"Outsiders\/Checkmate: Checkout\" \/><\/p>\n<p>By <strong>Greg Rucka<\/strong>, <strong>Judd Winick<\/strong>, <strong>Joe Bennett<\/strong> &amp; <strong>Matthew Clark<\/strong> (DC Comics)<br \/>\nISBN: 978-1-84576-737-2<\/p>\n<p>Set after and resulting from the events of<strong> 52<\/strong>, this slick, fast-paced thriller combines the UN&#8217;s superhuman monitoring force Checkmate and the Outsiders &#8211; a team of \u00e2\u20ac\u0153rogue\u00e2\u20ac\u009d superheroes who proactively seek out threats and ignore political boundaries.<\/p>\n<p>Collecting a six part crossover (<strong>Outsiders<\/strong> #47-49 and <strong>Checkmate <\/strong>#13-15) it all starts when the super-spies capture the renegade heroes to use them for a mission too dirty for their own rule-bound agents. Not wanting to spoil your fun, I&#8217;ll simply say that if you love outrageous action, sexy heroes and truly vile bad-guys (many of them working for \u00e2\u20ac\u0153our government\u00e2\u20ac\u009d), this dark but fast-paced blockbuster for older readers, has great pace, superb dialogue, loads of gratuitous violence and really cool art.<\/p>\n<p>Utterly Gung-Ho and pure undemanding pleasure for Guys (although I&#8217;m sure lots of girls will love it too)!<\/p>\n<p>\u00c2\u00a9 2007 DC Comics. All Rights Reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Greg Rucka, Judd Winick, Joe Bennett &amp; Matthew Clark (DC Comics) ISBN: 978-1-84576-737-2 Set after and resulting from the events of 52, this slick, fast-paced thriller combines the UN&#8217;s superhuman monitoring force Checkmate and the Outsiders &#8211; a team of \u00e2\u20ac\u0153rogue\u00e2\u20ac\u009d superheroes who proactively seek out threats and ignore political boundaries. Collecting a six &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/2008\/03\/31\/outsiderscheckmate-checkout\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Outsiders\/Checkmate: Checkout&#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-2003","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-graphic-novels"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4AFj-wj","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2003","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=2003"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2003\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2003"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2003"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2003"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}