{"id":594,"date":"2007-07-05T14:15:31","date_gmt":"2007-07-05T14:15:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/?p=594"},"modified":"2007-07-05T14:16:52","modified_gmt":"2007-07-05T14:16:52","slug":"jsa-savage-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/2007\/07\/05\/jsa-savage-times\/","title":{"rendered":"JSA: Savage Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/07\/jsasav.jpg\" alt=\"JSA: Savage Times\" \/>\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>By <strong>Geoff Johns<\/strong>, <strong>David Goyer<\/strong>, <strong>Leonard Kirk<\/strong> &amp; <strong>Keith Champagne<\/strong> (DC Comics)<br \/>\nISBN 1-84023-984-0<\/p>\n<p>When they&#8217;re producing what their dedicated readers want, today&#8217;s publishers seem to be on comfortably solid ground, so perhaps I shouldn&#8217;t be so harsh in my judgements. The tale collected as <strong>Savage Times<\/strong> is standard comic book fare, well crafted and revolving around a time-bending villain who attacks the venerable super-heroes of the Justice Society of America by travelling into their collective past.<\/p>\n<p>No problem with that. I just question the long-term sense of slavish regurgitation. How many times can even the most dedicated collector swallow the same old things? And how many formats should they be expected to purchase it in? Stuff like this won&#8217;t expand the reader base, and shouldn&#8217;t be looking for growth not treading water?<\/p>\n<p>\u00c2\u00a9 2002, 2003 DC Comics. All Rights Reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00c2\u00a0 By Geoff Johns, David Goyer, Leonard Kirk &amp; Keith Champagne (DC Comics) ISBN 1-84023-984-0 When they&#8217;re producing what their dedicated readers want, today&#8217;s publishers seem to be on comfortably solid ground, so perhaps I shouldn&#8217;t be so harsh in my judgements. The tale collected as Savage Times is standard comic book fare, well crafted &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/2007\/07\/05\/jsa-savage-times\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;JSA: Savage Times&#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":[1,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-594","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-graphic-novels","category-jsa"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4AFj-9A","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/594","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=594"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/594\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=594"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=594"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}