{"id":727,"date":"2007-07-25T07:38:52","date_gmt":"2007-07-25T07:38:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/?p=727"},"modified":"2007-07-25T07:47:30","modified_gmt":"2007-07-25T07:47:30","slug":"thunderbolt-jaxon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/2007\/07\/25\/thunderbolt-jaxon\/","title":{"rendered":"Thunderbolt Jaxon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/07\/thunderbolt.jpg\" alt=\"Thunderbolt Jaxon\" \/>\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>By <strong>Dave Gibbons<\/strong> &amp; <strong>John Higgins<\/strong> (WildStorm)<br \/>\nISBN 1-84576-491-9<\/p>\n<p>This intriguing revival of one of the more outr\u00c3\u00a9 strip heroes of British Comics sees a bunch of kids dig up some pre-Christian relics in a church-yard only to find themselves embroiled in the long-postponed last battle of Ragnarok.<\/p>\n<p>Blending ancient feuds, warring religions, bad parenting and criminal-gang rivalry, this wonderful, moody romp zips along as any origin tale should, feeling more like an Alan Garner tale (and why hasn&#8217;t anybody ever adapted any of his splendid stories to graphic form?) than a regular comic. The beautiful art of John Higgins weaves its own spell to enthral, perfectly suiting the tripped down, terse script from Dave Gibbons.<\/p>\n<p>This is possibly the best of the Anglo-American refits to emerge from the teaming of DC and IPC, a good solid piece of fantastic eye-candy that should win some new fans for an old brand.<\/p>\n<p>\u00c2\u00a9 2006, 2007 IPC Media Limited &amp; DC Comics. All Rights Reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00c2\u00a0 By Dave Gibbons &amp; John Higgins (WildStorm) ISBN 1-84576-491-9 This intriguing revival of one of the more outr\u00c3\u00a9 strip heroes of British Comics sees a bunch of kids dig up some pre-Christian relics in a church-yard only to find themselves embroiled in the long-postponed last battle of Ragnarok. Blending ancient feuds, warring religions, bad &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/2007\/07\/25\/thunderbolt-jaxon\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Thunderbolt Jaxon&#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-727","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-graphic-novels"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4AFj-bJ","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/727","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=727"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/727\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=727"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}