{"id":1382,"date":"2005-05-14T08:50:28","date_gmt":"2005-05-14T08:50:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/2005\/05\/14\/a_jones_for_des\/"},"modified":"2024-11-29T16:07:39","modified_gmt":"2024-11-29T21:07:39","slug":"a_jones_for_des","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/2005\/05\/14\/a_jones_for_des\/","title":{"rendered":"A Jones for Desolation"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/img\/desolation_jones.jpg\" alt=\"desolation_jones.jpg\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Yes, it does, don\u2019t you think? Man, I loved the first issue of <i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.comicreaders.com\/modules.php?name=News&amp;file=article&amp;sid=1452\">Desolation Jones<\/a><\/i> so much that I was gasping for air when I finished reading it. It\u2019s funny and dirty and fucked up, which is my passport to happiness.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">What\u2019s even better is knowing that Warren Ellis enjoys following his bizarre ideas to their conclusion. Grant Morrison, for instance, is another crazy-plot-point factory, but he\u2019s more likely to just throw down nutty ideas left and right to set the scene rather than to gather them all up and deliver the punch line. What makes me more excited by the first issue of something similar by Warren Ellis is knowing that these freaky tidbits usually lead somewhere. Anarchy is fun, sure, but when it comes to storytelling it lacks payoff. I can\u2019t wait to see how <i>Desolation Jones<\/i> ties together the Hitler porn, the visions of angels, LA\u2019s secret intelligence underground, and whetever else comes our way during this mini. Wheeeeeeee! Let the fun begin!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yes, it does, don\u2019t you think? Man, I loved the first issue of Desolation Jones so much that I was gasping for air when I finished reading it. It\u2019s funny and dirty and fucked up, which is my passport to happiness. What\u2019s even better is knowing that Warren Ellis enjoys following his bizarre ideas to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/2005\/05\/14\/a_jones_for_des\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;A Jones for Desolation&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1382","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ultracomics"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1382","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1382"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1382\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76900,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1382\/revisions\/76900"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}