{"id":56,"date":"2008-05-07T13:47:13","date_gmt":"2008-05-07T05:47:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seriouslysarah.com\/blog\/2008\/05\/07\/radical-comics-caliber-hercules-and-oblivion\/"},"modified":"2008-05-07T13:47:13","modified_gmt":"2008-05-07T05:47:13","slug":"radical-comics-caliber-hercules-and-oblivion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.seriouslysarah.com\/blog\/2008\/05\/07\/radical-comics-caliber-hercules-and-oblivion\/","title":{"rendered":"Radical Comics &#8211; Caliber, Hercules and&#8230; Oblivion?!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.seriouslysarah.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/fcbsticker.jpg\" alt=\"fcbday\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Okay, I got to go to Free Comic Day on 3rd of May, so yes amongst my free comics, I decided to buy <a href=\"http:\/\/www.radicalcomics.com\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">Radical<\/a>&#8216;s new comics of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.radicalcomics.com\/comics-hercules.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Hercules<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.radicalcomics.com\/comics-caliber.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Caliber<\/a>. It cost me $1US each since it was their first issues EVAAAAH. Also, I got my free comic book day by Radical too. A preview of their upcoming stories.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.seriouslysarah.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/ifsrad.jpg\" alt=\"radpreview\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Included inside were artwork from their upcoming titles like Aladdin and Freedom Formula too. Truthfully, I got to see most of the artwork during <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.imaginaryfs.com\/?p=26\" target=\"_blank\">Barry Levine&#8217;s Comics to Film seminar<\/a> but now I have it printed form so YES!!<\/p>\n<p>The thing that made me gasp was this though:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.seriouslysarah.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/oblivionrad.jpg\" alt=\"oblivionrad\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Firstly, yeah right, as if I&#8217;m going to squish my book onto the scanner and flatten it.  Secondly, ACK!!??? WHAT IS THIS? Okay, I admit, it made me go ack cause <a href=\"http:\/\/ukitakumuki.deviantart.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Kai<\/a> was my coursemate back in polytechnic.<\/p>\n<p>Well technically it&#8217;s not THAT surprising considering he&#8217;s part of the upper people of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imaginaryfs.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Imaginary Friends Studio<\/a>, so that&#8217;s duh.<\/p>\n<p>What&#8217;s surprising is that this is like OUT OF NOWHERE. I haven&#8217;t SEEN or heard anything of this new title until this preview ad in their book. So he has his &#8220;own&#8221; comic coming soon. WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH! ;_;<\/p>\n<p>But that&#8217;s okay&#8230; One day I&#8217;ll have my own comic too since I&#8217;ll keep working on it and see if they&#8217;d accept my story proposals. ANYWAY, back to THEIR comics.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.seriouslysarah.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/herculesrad.jpg\" alt=\"hercules\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This ain&#8217;t your Kevin Sorbo Hercules. This is the REAL utter gory Hercules of the Greek stories. First issue, let&#8217;s say&#8230; Even if this is the first official comic (besides Caliber) from Radical, you will know that the artwork of Radical is ALL beautiful.<\/p>\n<p>The painting! ARRGH, they are all&#8230; Well, it is seriously a piece of art when you flip through the pages (I lie, I didn&#8217;t flip through the pages, I CAREFULLY turned it over one by one to not get my fingerprints on them) and look at it.<\/p>\n<p>The story&#8230; Well, I&#8217;m not really sure how to explain without giving spoilers&#8230; but it REALLY is like how the unglamourous story of Hercules is. The real pain and anguish, nothing about &#8220;LALALA, I&#8217;ma son of Zeus and I&#8217;m soooo strong!&#8221;. Nah, it&#8217;s more of your classic type of the tale of Hercules. It ended with a DUN DUN DUUUUUUUUH moment of course.<\/p>\n<p>Though, it makes me wonder&#8230; WHEN IS THE NEXT ISSUE GONNA BE WITH THIS HIGH QUALITY ARTWORK!? Cause seriously, I&#8217;d like to know if it&#8217;s a monthly or bimonthly thing.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.seriouslysarah.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/caliberrad.jpg\" alt=\"caliber\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Next up is Caliber. I totally like Arthurian stuff. This is a remake of King Arthur&#8230; With guns.<\/p>\n<p>HOW AWESOME IS THAT?<\/p>\n<p>Rumour says that this will be picked up and turned into a movie but we&#8217;ll see if and when it happens. So far, I LIIIKESS IT.<\/p>\n<p>Painted artwork like woah.<\/p>\n<p>Arthurian story = A double plus.<\/p>\n<p>The way it&#8217;s being told = Major awesome.<\/p>\n<p>And that&#8217;s it for me&#8230; I&#8217;m keeping my issues all pretty so next time I see any of the IFS guys who did the artwork, I can get them to sign it.<\/p>\n<p>Ps. For both titles, there are alternate covers.<\/p>\n<p>Pps. They&#8217;re both mini series so you don&#8217;t have to go &#8220;AAGH&#8221; like certain comics with their hundreds issue storyline and all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Okay, I got to go to Free Comic Day on 3rd of May, so yes amongst my free comics, I decided to buy Radical&#8216;s new comics of Hercules and Caliber. It cost me $1US each since it was their first issues EVAAAAH. Also, I got my free comic book day by Radical too. A preview &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.seriouslysarah.com\/blog\/2008\/05\/07\/radical-comics-caliber-hercules-and-oblivion\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Radical Comics &#8211; Caliber, Hercules and&#8230; Oblivion?!<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","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":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[10],"tags":[24],"class_list":["post-56","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","tag-comics"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pf5tJ-U","jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.seriouslysarah.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.seriouslysarah.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.seriouslysarah.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.seriouslysarah.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.seriouslysarah.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.seriouslysarah.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.seriouslysarah.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.seriouslysarah.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.seriouslysarah.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}