{"id":864,"date":"2007-08-16T08:46:53","date_gmt":"2007-08-16T08:46:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/?p=864"},"modified":"2007-08-16T08:46:53","modified_gmt":"2007-08-16T08:46:53","slug":"street-angel-the-princess-of-poverty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/2007\/08\/16\/street-angel-the-princess-of-poverty\/","title":{"rendered":"Street Angel: The Princess of Poverty"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/08\/streetangel.jpg\" alt=\"Street Angel\" \/>\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>By <strong>Jim Rugg<\/strong> &amp; <strong>Brian Maruca<\/strong> (SLG)<br \/>\nISBN: 1-5936-2012-8<\/p>\n<p>Another spectacular Indie offering is this unbelievably readable pastiche of modern culture featuring the insane super-heroic exploits of monster crushing, ninja-hating Jesse Sanchez.<\/p>\n<p>13 year old Sanchez is the eponymous Street Angel, a homeless girl who dumpster dives for food and cigarette butts, goes to school &#8211; when she has to \u00e2\u20ac\u201c drinks cheap booze, and saves Angel city on a regular basis from Gods, monsters, scientists, super-villains and anything else that tries to do bad to the world. She has nothing to aid her but her phenomenal martial arts skills, skateboarding abilities and unwavering optimism.<\/p>\n<p>Created by a team hopelessly seduced by, but not trapped in, a wash of popular culture iconography such as comic-books, trashy movies, skater-boy chic and the timeless beauty of excessive and cleverly staged gratuitous violence, this wickedly clever spoof is a masterpiece of clich\u00c3\u00a9-busting fun illustrated with an startlingly accessible and economic verve and utility that can&#8217;t help but suck you down like a Aztec God tripping over his own time portal. I especially call your attention to CosMick O&#8217;Brannigan, the World&#8217;s First Irish Astronaut and fluent speaker of Australian \u00e2\u20ac\u201c \u00e2\u20ac\u0153The Friendliest Language on Earth\u00e2\u20ac\u009d as a potential megastar of the future.<\/p>\n<p>Smart, sassy and catchy as a \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Chicken Tonight\u00e2\u20ac\u009d jingle \u00e2\u20ac\u201c this is a series worth hunting for.<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u201e\u00a2 &amp; \u00c2\u00a9 2004, 2005 Jim Rugg &amp; Brian Maruca. All Rights Reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00c2\u00a0 By Jim Rugg &amp; Brian Maruca (SLG) ISBN: 1-5936-2012-8 Another spectacular Indie offering is this unbelievably readable pastiche of modern culture featuring the insane super-heroic exploits of monster crushing, ninja-hating Jesse Sanchez. 13 year old Sanchez is the eponymous Street Angel, a homeless girl who dumpster dives for food and cigarette butts, goes to &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/2007\/08\/16\/street-angel-the-princess-of-poverty\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Street Angel: The Princess of Poverty&#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-864","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-graphic-novels"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4AFj-dW","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/864","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=864"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/864\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=864"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=864"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=864"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}