{"id":503,"date":"2007-06-17T18:50:43","date_gmt":"2007-06-17T18:50:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/?p=503"},"modified":"2007-06-17T18:55:26","modified_gmt":"2007-06-17T18:55:26","slug":"modesty-blaise-black-pearl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/2007\/06\/17\/modesty-blaise-black-pearl\/","title":{"rendered":"Modesty Blaise: Black Pearl"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/06\/mbbpearl.jpg\" alt=\"Modesty Blaise: Black Pearl\" \/>\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>By <strong>Peter O&#8217;Donnell<\/strong> &amp; <strong>Jim Holdaway<\/strong> (Titan Books)<br \/>\nISBN 1-84023-842-9<\/p>\n<p>The greatest heroine in comics returns for four more high-octane capers and dark intrigues. Starting off with the classic, exotic mystery of <em>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153The Black Pearl\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/em>, the deadly duo move on to an almost science fiction driven thriller in<em> \u00e2\u20ac\u0153The Magnified Man\u00e2\u20ac\u009d.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>We return to basics with the all-action set-piece <em>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153The Jericho Caper\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/em> and the book concludes with the little known gem <em>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153The Killing Ground\u00e2\u20ac\u009d.<\/em> This was produced to fill pages in the syndicated Scottish periodical when industrial action hit the parent paper (the <em>London Evening Standard<\/em>).<\/p>\n<p>O&#8217;Donnell and Holdaway produced some of the best comic strips in the world during their collaboration and these breakneck pace, subtly engaging tales show all their skills at their creative peak, whilst the captivating behind-the-scenes features are an absolute treat. A &#8216;can&#8217;t miss&#8217; collection.<\/p>\n<p>\u00c2\u00a9 2004 Associated Newspapers\/Solo Syndication<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00c2\u00a0 By Peter O&#8217;Donnell &amp; Jim Holdaway (Titan Books) ISBN 1-84023-842-9 The greatest heroine in comics returns for four more high-octane capers and dark intrigues. Starting off with the classic, exotic mystery of \u00e2\u20ac\u0153The Black Pearl\u00e2\u20ac\u009d, the deadly duo move on to an almost science fiction driven thriller in \u00e2\u20ac\u0153The Magnified Man\u00e2\u20ac\u009d. We return to &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/2007\/06\/17\/modesty-blaise-black-pearl\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Modesty Blaise: Black Pearl&#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":[1,21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-503","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-graphic-novels","category-modesty-blaise"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4AFj-87","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/503","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=503"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/503\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}