{"id":9956,"date":"2014-04-19T16:00:03","date_gmt":"2014-04-19T20:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=9956"},"modified":"2021-03-10T19:17:08","modified_gmt":"2021-03-10T23:17:08","slug":"z-view-dead-letters-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=9956","title":{"rendered":"Z-View: Dead Letters #1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2014\/z041914deadletters1_cov.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"769\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><b>Dead Letters #1<\/b><span style=\"font-family: arial;\">\u00a0is\u00a0published by<strong>\u00a0BoomStudios<\/strong>.<strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial;\">Writer:<strong>\u00a0<span style=\"color: #000000;\">Christopher Sebela<\/span><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial;\">Artist: <strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Chris Visions<\/span><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Colorist: <b>Ruth Redmond<\/b><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Cover Shown:<strong>\u00a0Chris Visions<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Waking up in a fleabag motel with bandaged arms and a revolver on his desk, Sam doesn\u2019t remember a thing &#8211; not how he got here, where here is, or who he is. But the armed men knocking on his door do and Sam will have to use every trick from his forgotten repertoire to outrun and outsmart his way through a hardboiled wonderland of gang wars, femme fatales and big secrets.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2014\/z041914deadletters1_pan.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"373\" \/>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The\u00a0Good<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><b>Chris Visions&#8217;<\/b>\u00a0art and <strong>Ruth Redmond&#8217;s<\/strong> colors.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">The set-up: Sam wakes up to a ringing phone in a &#8220;sketchy hotel room&#8221; not knowing who he is or how he got there. The voice on the phone says, &#8220;They&#8217;re coming Sam. \u00a0You&#8217;d better start running&#8221; and hangs up. \u00a0Page one and I&#8217;m hooked.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">The big reveal [for this issue] is saved for the last page. \u00a0Well played, <strong>Chris Sebela<\/strong>. \u00a0I also like the hints dropped throughout the issue. \u00a0[Pay attention to backgrounds.]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>The\u00a0Bad:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The position Sam is in. \u00a0Amnesia. Killers chasing him. \u00a0Yeah, that&#8217;s bad.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>The Ugly:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Page 15 panel 3.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><b>Dead Letters #1<\/b>\u00a0 is a comic for <strong>mature audiences<\/strong>\u00a0due to violence. \u00a0I&#8217;m looking forward to issue #2.<b><br \/>\n<\/b><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Rating: 4 out of 5<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dead Letters #1\u00a0is\u00a0published by\u00a0BoomStudios. Writer:\u00a0Christopher Sebela Artist: Chris Visions Colorist: Ruth Redmond Cover Shown:\u00a0Chris Visions Waking up in a fleabag<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","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_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[58,56,51],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9956","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-comics","category-crime"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9956","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=9956"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9956\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25600,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9956\/revisions\/25600"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9956"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9956"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9956"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}