{"id":2095,"date":"2008-12-03T17:33:00","date_gmt":"2008-12-03T21:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=2095"},"modified":"2020-08-11T19:03:57","modified_gmt":"2020-08-11T23:03:57","slug":"marlow-soul-of-darkness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=2095","title":{"rendered":"Z-View &#8211; Marlow: Soul of Darkness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_aatuWUTj6ic\/STb7Q_7DuZI\/AAAAAAAACRc\/muO1D4XlOHE\/s1600-h\/z1203008marlow.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5275680282966735250\" style=\"margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 266px; height: 400px;\" src=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_aatuWUTj6ic\/STb7Q_7DuZI\/AAAAAAAACRc\/muO1D4XlOHE\/s400\/z1203008marlow.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\"><\/a><span style=\"font-family: arial;\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">The Pitch:<\/span> A <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">hardcase<\/span> with a secret leads a small group of <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">mercenaries<\/span> onto an island full of <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">zombies<\/span> in order to rescue a scientist.<\/span><span style=\"font-family: arial;\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">The Good:<\/span> The <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">concept<\/span>. The <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Marlow <\/span>character and his associates. The art by <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Mathew Reynolds<\/span> shows a lot of promise with inspired panels\/poses. Running some of the original proposal pages [by a different artist] was cool.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial;\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">The Bad:<\/span> The <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">lack of backgrounds<\/span> &#8212; at times it works, but as the story progressed I missed them and wanted more than just gray-scale figures, etc. The fact that <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Marlow<\/span> almost always has a cigar in his mouth became a bit much.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial;\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">The Ugly:<\/span> The<span style=\"font-weight: bold;\"> logo<\/span> needs to be<span style=\"font-weight: bold;\"> reworked<\/span>. The shop owner where I bought <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Marlow<\/span> said he had no idea what the title was when he first looked at the cover. The price tag of <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">$4.95<\/span> felt a bit high.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial;\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">The Summary: <\/span><span style=\"font-family: arial;\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Marlow <\/span>was created by <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Aaron Thomas Nelson<\/span> and <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Dario Carrassco Jr. <\/span>The first issue is <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">46 black and white pages<\/span> with a <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">color cover<\/span>, written by <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Aaron Thomas Nelson <\/span>art by <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Mathew Reynolds<\/span>. I enjoyed the first issue and feel like <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Nelson and Reynolds<\/span> could have a hit on their hands if they stick with it.<br \/>\n<\/span><br \/>\n<strong>Rating:<\/strong><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/logo\/zview_b.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"100\"><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; The Pitch: A hardcase with a secret leads a small group of mercenaries onto an island full of zombies<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_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_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[56,53,74,62],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2095","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-comics","category-horror","category-z-view","category-zombies","comments-off"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2095","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/912"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2095"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2095\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24411,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2095\/revisions\/24411"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2095"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2095"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2095"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}