{"id":849,"date":"2008-05-21T13:34:54","date_gmt":"2008-05-21T03:34:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/2008\/05\/21\/online-giant-monster\/"},"modified":"2008-05-21T14:16:10","modified_gmt":"2008-05-21T04:16:10","slug":"online-giant-monster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/2008\/05\/21\/online-giant-monster\/","title":{"rendered":"Online Giant Monster"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span id=\"intelliTXT\">Author Steve Niles and artist Nat Jones let loose a comic a while back under the title <em>Giant Monster<\/em>. Fortunately for us, the title is completely accurate according to Truth-In-Advertising guidelines and you get what you might expect to get from the series.<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/giantmonstercover.jpg\" title=\"Giant Monster cover\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/giantmonstercover.jpg\" alt=\"Giant Monster cover\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The good news is two-fold. Firstly, Boom! Studios has recently produced a trade version of the graphic novel. Not only that, in their generosity they have allowed CBR (Comic Book Resources) website to put the entire thing <a href=\"http:\/\/www.comicbookresources.com\/?page=article&amp;id=12358\" target=\"_blank\">online<\/a>! CBR are putting up one page per day and there are currently 90 pages available &#8212; in full colour and large-size. This is one to bookmark and to check out each morning before breakfast! For free!<\/p>\n<p>If you want to know what it&#8217;s about &#8212; apart from the obvious &#8212; author Niles described it this way in a 2005 interview for CBR News:<span id=\"intelliTXT\"><\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span id=\"intelliTXT\">&#8220;The story&#8217;s about a shuttle pilot, Colonel Don Maggert, who&#8217;s going on his first solo mission to the JFK International Space Station. When he left for his mission he was having a few marital problems, a few drinking problems, basically he&#8217;s having problems with his life in general. This flight is really a big turning point that allows him to get his life together and to get back out there. While he&#8217;s flying back, he&#8217;s attacked by a space parasite! It devours his body, he crashes into the ocean and our story begins.&#8221;<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Below are a couple of pages &#8212; pages featuring giant monster &#8220;business&#8221; &#8212; to whet your appetite and encourage you to check it out. I&#8217;ll certainly be doing so&#8230; at least until I acquire a copy of <em>Giant Monster<\/em>&#8216;s non-virtual book form.   Click on the images to see them bigger (though not as big as on CBR).<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><span id=\"intelliTXT\"><\/span> <a href=\"http:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/giantmonster_p26.jpg\" title=\"Giant Monster page 26\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/giantmonster_p26.jpg\" alt=\"Giant Monster page 26\" height=\"571\" width=\"380\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/giantmonster_p40.jpg\" title=\"Giant Monster page 40\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/giantmonster_p40.jpg\" alt=\"Giant Monster page 40\" height=\"568\" width=\"381\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/giantmonster_pp52-53.jpg\" title=\"Giant Monster pages 52 and 53\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/giantmonster_pp52-53.jpg\" alt=\"Giant Monster pages 52 and 53\" height=\"335\" width=\"441\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.comicbookresources.com\/?page=article&amp;id=12358\" target=\"_blank\">CBR link<\/a><\/li>\n<li>via <a href=\"http:\/\/giantmonstersattack.blogspot.com\/2008\/05\/hey-kids-free-comics.html\" target=\"_blank\">Giant Monster Attack!<\/a> and Kaiju Search-Robot Avery<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Author Steve Niles and artist Nat Jones let loose a comic a while back under the title Giant Monster. Fortunately for us, the title is completely accurate according to Truth-In-Advertising guidelines and you get what you might expect to get &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/2008\/05\/21\/online-giant-monster\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[44,13,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/849"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=849"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/849\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}