{"id":1294,"date":"2016-01-03T17:03:58","date_gmt":"2016-01-04T01:03:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/books.randolphking.com\/?p=1294"},"modified":"2016-01-03T17:03:58","modified_gmt":"2016-01-04T01:03:58","slug":"batman-gothic-by-grant-morrison","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/books.randolphking.com\/?p=1294","title":{"rendered":"Batman: Gothic by Grant Morrison"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.librarything.com\/work\/221618\/book\/61210332\" target=\"_self\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 12px; margin-right: 12px;\" src=\"https:\/\/pics.cdn.librarything.com\/picsizes\/23\/36\/23362bb34d027b2593165555051434f414f4141.jpg\" alt=\"Batman: Gothic\nby Grant Morrison\" align=\"left\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This is a rather dark Batman tale with the expected gothic overtones.  The artwork by Klaus Janson does reflect the spirit well, but the story does not.  The characters are a bit flat and the story a bit predictable.  <\/p>\n<p>Although certain liberties are acceptable with superhero stories, this story delves too far into the supernatural and feels out of place with the Batman cannon.  It was not a satisfying read.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is a rather dark Batman tale with the expected gothic overtones. The artwork by Klaus Janson does reflect the spirit well, but the story does not. The characters are a bit flat and the story a bit predictable. Although certain liberties are acceptable with superhero stories, this story delves too far into the supernatural [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1294","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fantasy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/books.randolphking.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1294","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/books.randolphking.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/books.randolphking.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/books.randolphking.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/books.randolphking.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1294"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/books.randolphking.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1294\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1296,"href":"https:\/\/books.randolphking.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1294\/revisions\/1296"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/books.randolphking.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/books.randolphking.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/books.randolphking.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}