{"id":1920,"date":"2018-12-20T16:48:53","date_gmt":"2018-12-20T21:48:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kirabug.com\/?p=1920"},"modified":"2018-12-20T16:48:53","modified_gmt":"2018-12-20T21:48:53","slug":"abbott-by-saladin-ahmed-sami-kivela-and-jason-wordie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kirabug.com\/wordpress\/2018\/12\/abbott-by-saladin-ahmed-sami-kivela-and-jason-wordie\/","title":{"rendered":"Abbott by Saladin Ahmed, Sami Kivel\u00e4, and Jason Wordie"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"\u201chttps:\/\/amzn.to\/2SaUwlS\u201d\">Abbott<\/a> by Saladin Ahmed, Sami Kivel\u00e4, and Jason Wordie<\/p>\n<p>Abbott is about a black woman reporter in 1972 Detroit, who investigates a series of murders of an otherworldly nature.<\/p>\n<p>It is excellent.<\/p>\n<p>The tone is both true to its time (from what I\u2019ve heard, as I\u2019m neither from Detroit nor Black nor old enough to have been alive in 1972.)<\/p>\n<p>Abbott doesn\u2019t take any crap from anyone, and at the same time she has her weaknesses and flaws. Her supporting cast and her enemies are not as deeply fleshed-our as the main character, but considering that this book represents only five comics, that\u2019s not a significant concern.<\/p>\n<p>The story is excellent, the art is dynamic and detailed, and the combination makes for a compelling experience. As with all comics, the end of the comic is not the resolution of the main source of conflict, but that\u2019s good, because it may signal more to comic. I hope that Saladin Ahmed, Sami Kivel\u00e4, and Jason Wordie return to this world to give us another glimpse.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Abbott by Saladin Ahmed, Sami Kivel\u00e4, and Jason Wordie Abbott is about a black woman reporter in 1972 Detroit, who investigates a series of murders of an otherworldly nature. It is excellent. The tone is both true to its time (from what I\u2019ve heard, as I\u2019m neither from Detroit nor Black nor old enough to &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kirabug.com\/wordpress\/2018\/12\/abbott-by-saladin-ahmed-sami-kivela-and-jason-wordie\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Abbott by Saladin Ahmed, Sami Kivel\u00e4, and Jason Wordie&#8221;<\/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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[11],"tags":[52,25,51,49,50],"class_list":["post-1920","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-impressions","tag-abbott","tag-comics","tag-jason-wordie","tag-saladin-ahmed","tag-sami-kivela"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pdUhYo-uY","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kirabug.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1920","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kirabug.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kirabug.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kirabug.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kirabug.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1920"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kirabug.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1920\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1921,"href":"https:\/\/kirabug.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1920\/revisions\/1921"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kirabug.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1920"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kirabug.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1920"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kirabug.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1920"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}