{"id":2635,"date":"2019-09-16T23:04:22","date_gmt":"2019-09-17T03:04:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kirabug.com\/?p=2635"},"modified":"2021-05-04T22:51:45","modified_gmt":"2021-05-05T02:51:45","slug":"narbonic-perfect-collection-volume-1-by-shaenon-k-garrity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kirabug.com\/wordpress\/2019\/09\/narbonic-perfect-collection-volume-1-by-shaenon-k-garrity\/","title":{"rendered":"Narbonic Perfect Collection Volume 1, by Shaenon K. Garrity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/couscouscollective.storenvy.com\/collections\/212980-books\/products\/1270187-narbonic-perfect-collection-book-1\">Narbonic Perfect Collection Volume 1<\/a> is the first in a two volume series capturing all of the webcomics in Shaenon K. Garrity&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/narbonic.com\">Narbonic<\/a> series in print.<\/p>\n<p>Helen Narbon is:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A strong female character not afraid to be ruthless or gentle when needed<\/li>\n<li>A scientist (okay, a mad scientist) with skills in biology, physics, and many other areas of study&lt;\/li<\/li>\n<li>A loyal friend and occasional mischief maker<\/li>\n<li>My personal definition of mad scientist.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Seriously, I imprinted on her like a duckling on a roomba.<\/p>\n<p>Dave Davenport is the actual main character of the Narbonic series, as he is Helen&#8217;s sanest henchman (that&#8217;s not saying much, the other two are a college student and a gerbil with an IQ of 250) and the progenitor of the plot line. The story starts with Dave becoming Helen&#8217;s &#8220;IT guy&#8221; and proceeds through numerous adventures involving gender swapping, taking over the moon, battling Helen&#8217;s mother, taking on the secret society of Daves, and going to Helen&#8217;s 10th class reunion.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s, um, complicated working for Helen.<\/p>\n<p>But oh heavens do I look up to her.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Narbonic Perfect Collection Volume 1 is the first in a two volume series capturing all of the webcomics in Shaenon K. Garrity&#8217;s Narbonic series in print. Helen Narbon is: A strong female character not afraid to be ruthless or gentle when needed A scientist (okay, a mad scientist) with skills in biology, physics, and many &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kirabug.com\/wordpress\/2019\/09\/narbonic-perfect-collection-volume-1-by-shaenon-k-garrity\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Narbonic Perfect Collection Volume 1, by Shaenon K. Garrity&#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":[25,108,107],"class_list":["post-2635","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-impressions","tag-comics","tag-narbonic","tag-shaenon-k-garrity"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pdUhYo-Gv","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kirabug.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2635","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=2635"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kirabug.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2635\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2636,"href":"https:\/\/kirabug.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2635\/revisions\/2636"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kirabug.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2635"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kirabug.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2635"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kirabug.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2635"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}