{"id":25059,"date":"2019-09-19T12:52:04","date_gmt":"2019-09-19T17:52:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=25059"},"modified":"2019-09-17T10:54:43","modified_gmt":"2019-09-17T15:54:43","slug":"book-report-duel-by-steve-wolfhorndl-and-matt-meyers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2019\/09\/19\/book-report-duel-by-steve-wolfhorndl-and-matt-meyers\/","title":{"rendered":"Book Report: <i>Duel!<\/i> by Steve Wolfhorndl and Matt Meyers (?)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/bsgfx\/duel.jpg\" width=\"200\" alt=\"Book cover\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"4\">This is a fun little collection of, well, two stories essentially: Duel 1 and Duel 2.<\/p>\n<p>The first has the conceit of two kids drawing super-powered characters who take turns stomping the other kid&#8217;s most recent character.  So we get a bit of one-upmanship with simple comic drawings of different types of characters.<\/p>\n<p>The second actually features two comic artists swapping drawings, so each new creation attacks and defeats the champion from the previous turn.  <\/p>\n<p>The book also includes a couple prequel adventures of the characters before they met their ends in the duels, which is a nice treat of more straight forward comic bookery.  The end matter of the book includes additional treatments of the characters.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a bit of fun.  I might get a copy of it for my boys for Christmas.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is a fun little collection of, well, two stories essentially: Duel 1 and Duel 2. The first has the conceit of two kids drawing super-powered characters who take turns stomping the other kid&#8217;s most recent character. So we get a bit of one-upmanship with simple comic drawings of different types of characters. The second [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25059","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-report","category-books"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25059","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25059"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25059\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25060,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25059\/revisions\/25060"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25059"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25059"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25059"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}