{"id":564,"date":"2006-01-16T15:24:04","date_gmt":"2006-01-16T07:24:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/foxpro.ntsl119.com\/scr\/?p=564"},"modified":"2007-10-09T04:16:30","modified_gmt":"2007-10-08T20:16:30","slug":"witchblade-71","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/foxpro.ntsl119.com\/scr\/archives\/564","title":{"rendered":"Witchblade 71"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After months of searching, I finally found it. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/foxpro.NTSL119.com\/LOG\/IMG_8938CFX.JPG\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/foxpro.NTSL119.com\/LOG\/20060116-Witchblade71.jpg\" width=\"435\" height=\"326\" border=\"0\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.topcow.com\" target=\"_blank\">Top Cow<\/a>&#8216;s Witchblade 71. What I&#8217;m really after is Keu Cha&#8217;s painted cover. Keu Cha produces some of the best Witchblade covers along with the original artist, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aspencomics.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Michael Turner<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Top Cow years ago deviated from the &#8216;regular&#8217; superhero comics to delve into the supernatural world, which makes things more interesting. (But don&#8217;t get me wrong, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dccomics.com\" target=\"_blank\">DC<\/a> currently is doing well with its <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Special:Search?search=Infinite+Crisis\" target=\"_blank\">Infinite Crisis<\/a> event and has been &#8216;humanizing&#8217; their superheroes (producing even one of the best comic-to-screen-humanize-the-superhero-movie&#8230; Batman Begins)).<\/p>\n<p>But back to Top Cow&#8230; their take on the supernatural, sci-fi and conspiracy theories is what interests me most (and as of late qs is also reading them). PLUS of course their dedication to quality artwork on every panel.<\/p>\n<p>If you haven&#8217;t checked out Witchblade yet, or have left it when Michael Turner wasn&#8217;t the regular penciller anymore or if you&#8217;ve feeling it has become a T&#038;A book years ago, do return and pickup a copy&#8230; Ron Marz and Mike Choi are doing a great job, delving into the police\/detective\/job side of Sara while still continuing its supernatural direction. <\/p>\n<p>Since Ron Marz handled things, it is receiving <a href=\"http:\/\/www.herorealm.com\/features\/comicculture\/index.htm\" target=\"_blank\">great reviews<\/a> and even awards from various comic-related sites (which probably explains the reason why I&#8217;m having a hard time grabbing a copy of Witchblade 92). <\/p>\n<p>Ron Marz gives &#8216;real&#8217; stories&#8230; not just stories that serves as an excuse or a reason for Sara&#8217;s clothes to be shredded or to fall off.<\/p>\n<p>Ah yes&#8230; T&#038;A stands for &#8216;ti&#8211; and asses&#8217;, a term commonly used in the comics community. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After months of searching, I finally found it. That&#8217;s Top Cow&#8216;s Witchblade 71. What I&#8217;m really after is Keu Cha&#8217;s painted cover. Keu Cha produces some of the best Witchblade covers along with the original artist, Michael Turner. Top Cow years ago deviated from the &#8216;regular&#8217; superhero comics to delve into the supernatural world, which [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-564","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-comics","category-gfx"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/foxpro.ntsl119.com\/scr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/564","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/foxpro.ntsl119.com\/scr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/foxpro.ntsl119.com\/scr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foxpro.ntsl119.com\/scr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foxpro.ntsl119.com\/scr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=564"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/foxpro.ntsl119.com\/scr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/564\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/foxpro.ntsl119.com\/scr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=564"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foxpro.ntsl119.com\/scr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=564"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foxpro.ntsl119.com\/scr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}