{"id":23,"date":"2007-02-06T00:39:59","date_gmt":"2007-02-06T00:39:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/?p=23"},"modified":"2012-03-15T14:32:40","modified_gmt":"2012-03-15T14:32:40","slug":"grimjack-killer-instinct","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/2007\/02\/06\/grimjack-killer-instinct\/","title":{"rendered":"Grimjack: Killer Instinct"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/02\/grim.jpeg\" title=\"Grimjack: Killer Instinct\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/02\/grim.jpeg\" alt=\"Grimjack: Killer Instinct\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>By John Ostrander &amp; Timothy Truman<\/p>\n<p>(IDW Publishing)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Grimjack<\/strong> originally appeared during the American comic industry&#8217;s last great flourishing in the 1980&#8217;s. Created by Ostrander and Truman as a back-up feature, he swiftly won his own title at First Comics and almost survived the company&#8217;s demise more than a decade later. In a crowded marketplace, and almost irrespective of who was doing the drawing, this hard-boiled fantasy action strip was a watchword for quality entertainment.<\/p>\n<p>John Gaunt, Grimjack, is part private eye, part ronin and all-round problem solver just scratching out a living in the fantastic pan-dimensional city of Cynosure, a huge metropolis that touches every place in the multiverse at once. A combination of dry wit, dark edged fantasy, spectacular action and a willingness to take narrative risks won him a lot of loyal fans.<\/p>\n<p>In <em>Killer Instinct<\/em>, Ostrander and Truman take us back to a time immediately preceding Grimjack&#8217;s first appearance to flesh out the character for the old lags whilst introducing newcomers to a fresh, vibrant anti-hero struggling against a number of corrupt power-mongers, including insane paramilitaries and expansionist vampire cliques, whilst trying to find his own way. There is action aplenty and tremendous style for fans of genre-crossing. Let&#8217;s hope this leads someone to publish all those past classics in spiffy book compilations. I know I want them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By John Ostrander &amp; Timothy Truman (IDW Publishing) Grimjack originally appeared during the American comic industry&#8217;s last great flourishing in the 1980&#8217;s. Created by Ostrander and Truman as a back-up feature, he swiftly won his own title at First Comics and almost survived the company&#8217;s demise more than a decade later. In a crowded marketplace, &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/2007\/02\/06\/grimjack-killer-instinct\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Grimjack: Killer Instinct&#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_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_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},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[105,107,149],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mature-reading","category-science-fiction","category-supernatural"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4AFj-n","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23","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=23"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}