{"id":663,"date":"2007-07-15T10:52:25","date_gmt":"2007-07-15T10:52:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/?p=663"},"modified":"2007-09-25T14:06:04","modified_gmt":"2007-09-25T14:06:04","slug":"terra-obscura-vol-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/2007\/07\/15\/terra-obscura-vol-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Terra Obscura, vol 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/07\/terra2.jpg\" alt=\"Terra Obscura, vol 2\" \/>\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>By <strong>Alan Moore<\/strong>, <strong>Peter Hogan<\/strong>, <strong>Yanick Paquette<\/strong> &amp; <strong>Karl Story<\/strong> (America&#8217;s Best Comics)<br \/>\nISBN 1-84576-193-6<\/p>\n<p>This second volume of stories featuring the alternative heroes from an Earth duplicate situated at the other end of the galaxy continues the heady blend of wonderment and soap-opera as archetypical superman Tom Strange begins a romance with a widowed Jungle Queen just as an old comrade returns.<\/p>\n<p>Of course said comrade \u00e2\u20ac\u201c Captain\/Colonel Future &#8211; is returning from beyond the solar system in a spaceship that has been twisted and malformed by the hideous mysteries of deep space. And, naturally, said homecoming has precipitated a catastrophic series of time-slips that has re-inflicted the events of Pearl Harbour on modern Hawaii and threatens to A-bomb Hiroshima one more time. Super-heroes are popping out the mists of time to fight their counterparts and heirs and the world is generally reduced to a state of utter higgledy-piggledy.<\/p>\n<p>Couple that with the last word in super-heroine (can I still say that?) zombie stalker plots and you have a well-drawn piece of retooled retro-nonsense that will please the already converted but will utterly baffle the casual reader and sadly make no new converts to our little corner of the entertainment market.<\/p>\n<p>\u00c2\u00a9 2004, 2005 America&#8217;s Best Comics, LLC. All Rights Reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00c2\u00a0 By Alan Moore, Peter Hogan, Yanick Paquette &amp; Karl Story (America&#8217;s Best Comics) ISBN 1-84576-193-6 This second volume of stories featuring the alternative heroes from an Earth duplicate situated at the other end of the galaxy continues the heady blend of wonderment and soap-opera as archetypical superman Tom Strange begins a romance with a &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/2007\/07\/15\/terra-obscura-vol-2\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Terra Obscura, vol 2&#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":[1,38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-663","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-graphic-novels","category-tom-strong"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4AFj-aH","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/663","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=663"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/663\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=663"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}