{"id":244,"date":"2015-08-04T13:44:01","date_gmt":"2015-08-04T13:44:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tomscioli.com\/?p=244"},"modified":"2015-08-04T13:44:01","modified_gmt":"2015-08-04T13:44:01","slug":"american-barbarian-returns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.tomscioli.com\/?p=244","title":{"rendered":"American Barbarian Returns!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ambarb.com\/?attachment_id=1377\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1377\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-1377\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ambarb.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/AmbarbFinalCover.jpg\" alt=\"AmbarbFinalCover\" width=\"400\" height=\"601\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Tomorrow, Wednesday August 5th, American Barbarian returns in a new hardcover edition from IDW Publishing.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/163140332X\/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957&amp;creativeASIN=163140332X&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=ambarbcom-20&amp;linkId=NESTFSS4SRO63GHO\">American Barbarian: The Complete Series<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;\" src=\"http:\/\/ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/e\/ir?t=ambarbcom-20&amp;l=as2&amp;o=1&amp;a=163140332X\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" \/> tells the story of Meric, the last American on a revenge quest across the POST-post-apocalyptic landscape of New Earthea. The half-tank\/half-mummy Two-Tank Omen murdered Meric\u2019s family and payback is due. The young barbarian will fight every zombie, mutant motorcycle gang, and robosaur (robotic dinosaur) if that\u2019s what it takes to keep the American Dream alive.<\/p>\n<p>American Barbarian: The Complete Series collects Scioli\u2019s experimental webcomic in its entirety along with the never-seen-before process section \u201cAmerican Barbarian Apocrypha.\u201d The story changes gears and shifts tone both in its writing and in its artwork. Kirbyesque cartooning gives way to watercolor and photocollage. It\u2019s Jack Kirby meets Robert E. Howard meets Chuck Jones.<br \/>\n<em>\u201cIt\u2019s not just Kirby-influenced, it\u2019s Kirby being channeled.\u201c \u2013 Robot 6<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cAmerican Barbarian is equal parts He-Man, Kamandi, and Braveheart, but with all of those known influences, it still somehow manages to be unlike anything you\u2019ve read before.\u201d \u2013 Multiversity Comics<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cTraditional comics with all of the familiar elements turned up as loud as the knobs will go, pedal-to-the-metal, flaming, screaming, guitar-soloing, ne plus ultra COMICS with a capital C, O, M, I, C, S.\u201d \u2013 Comic Book Resources<\/em><\/p>\n<p>ISBN: 978-1-63140-332-3<\/p>\n<p>DIAMOND CODE: DEC148032<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tomorrow, Wednesday August 5th, American Barbarian returns in a new hardcover edition from IDW Publishing. American Barbarian: The Complete Series tells the story of Meric, the last American on a revenge quest across the POST-post-apocalyptic landscape of New Earthea. The half-tank\/half-mummy Two-Tank Omen murdered Meric\u2019s family and payback is due. The young barbarian will fight &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tomscioli.com\/?p=244\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">American Barbarian Returns!<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-244","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","category-comics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.tomscioli.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.tomscioli.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.tomscioli.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.tomscioli.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.tomscioli.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=244"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.tomscioli.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":246,"href":"http:\/\/www.tomscioli.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244\/revisions\/246"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.tomscioli.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.tomscioli.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.tomscioli.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}