{"id":5599,"date":"2011-07-14T01:35:49","date_gmt":"2011-07-14T05:35:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=5599"},"modified":"2021-03-19T21:18:12","modified_gmt":"2021-03-20T01:18:12","slug":"egg-2-hard-boiled-stories-reviewed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=5599","title":{"rendered":"Egg #2: Hard-Boiled Stories Reviewed"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Egg: Hard-Boiled Stories #2<\/strong> is, not surprisingly, a follow-up to to Egg: Hard-Boiled Stories #1<\/strong>. Like the first, it’s an anthology<\/strong> with all stories written by Eric Skillman<\/strong><\/span><\/a>.\u00a0 Issue two<\/strong> features the art of Ming Doyle, Victor Kerlow<\/strong> and Evan Bryce<\/strong>. Let’s look at the issue…<\/p>\n

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Lost & Found<\/strong><\/em> by Eric Skillman<\/strong> and Ming Doyle<\/strong><\/span><\/a> kicks off the issue with an eight page story<\/strong> about a midwestern girl who moved to the big city after high school.\u00a0 Now nearly a decade later she reconnects with Tommy<\/strong>, an old friend who loves to party hard.\u00a0 Hanging with Tommy<\/strong> could be the death of her.<\/p>\n

Skillman’s<\/strong> colors mesh well with Ming Doyle’s<\/strong> pen and ink work.\u00a0 Doyle<\/strong> has a unique style but it felt really right for this story.<\/p>\n

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Our second tale, The Platform<\/strong><\/em> teams Eric Skillman<\/strong> with Victor Kerlow<\/strong><\/span><\/a> in an six page story<\/strong> about two subway workers who learn how dangerous it can be coming to the aide of a young lady late at night.<\/p>\n

This story, like many of Skillman’s<\/strong>, has a shocker of an ending.<\/p>\n

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Our final story brings Eric Skillman<\/strong> and Evan Bryce<\/strong><\/span><\/a> together for a tale that they call Cold Feet<\/strong><\/em>.\u00a0 Kermit <\/strong>and Nate<\/strong> are two crime partners<\/strong> debating whether of not the snowy and icy roads make it the right night for a robbery<\/strong>.\u00a0 Before the night is over, they’ll have their answer.<\/p>\n

Cold Feet<\/strong><\/em> was my favorite story<\/strong> in the issue.\u00a0 I’m a big fan of Evan Bryce’s art<\/strong>.\u00a0 Evan<\/strong> is always pushing the envelope and I think he had the right balance of realism\/cartooniness for this tale.\u00a0 Skillman<\/strong> did an excellent job of coloring the story — at first glance I thought that Evan<\/strong> had done the colors as well.\u00a0 Let’s hope we see more stories from this team in the future.<\/p>\n

I really enjoyed Egg: Hard-Boiled Stories #2<\/strong>.\u00a0 Eric Skillman<\/strong> is an excellent writer and has an obvious love of the crime\/hard-boiled genre<\/strong>. He’s also been able to bring excellent artists to the table, so I’m hoping that we’re going to see future issues.<\/p>\n

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Egg: Hard-Boiled Stories #2 is, not surprisingly, a follow-up to to Egg: Hard-Boiled Stories #1. Like the first, it’s an<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","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":""},"categories":[58,61,56,51],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5599","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-authors","category-comics","category-crime","comments-off"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5599","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=5599"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5599\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26396,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5599\/revisions\/26396"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}