{"id":300,"date":"2008-06-17T09:56:00","date_gmt":"2008-06-17T14:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/comicscomicsmag.com\/2008\/06\/night-business\/"},"modified":"2008-06-17T09:56:00","modified_gmt":"2008-06-17T14:56:00","slug":"night-business","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/comicscomicsmag.com\/?p=300","title":{"rendered":"Night Business"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/bp0.blogger.com\/_2v-Vwo5ul9Y\/SFgJAEkOmWI\/AAAAAAAAAW8\/dC7SR8kX3H4\/s1600-h\/nbcover.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" style=\"display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/bp0.blogger.com\/_2v-Vwo5ul9Y\/SFgJAEkOmWI\/AAAAAAAAAW8\/dC7SR8kX3H4\/s400\/nbcover.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\"id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5212926465511692642\" \/><\/a><br \/>My favorite comic at MoCCA, honestly, was Benjamin Marra&#8217;s <span style=\"font-style:italic;\">Night Business<\/span>. A disciple of Paul Gulacy in spirit, Marra embodies a certain verve that I find refreshing in these mopey times. It may  be a little too hardcore, too fanzine-ish for some Comics Comics readers, but for me, it&#8217;s a breath of fresh air, and a surprising find at MoCCA.<\/p>\n<p>The story of a stripper who won&#8217;t be bought and a killer on the loose, Night Business trucks in noirish genre tropes but renders them with such detail and conviction that the woody dialogue and relentlessly stark lighting go down smoothly and enjoyably. I like the overall feeling of the comic and feel as though Marra is trying to single-handedly restore some &#8220;order&#8221; to comics. Marra&#8217;s layouts do most of the work, providing a structure for his detailed scenes \u2014 murder, XXX dancing, fights with a capital &#8216;F&#8217; \u2014 and it sports one of the coolest covers I&#8217;ve seen in awhile. It&#8217;s totally over the top and worth checking <a href=\"http:\/\/www.benjaminmarra.com\">out<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My favorite comic at MoCCA, honestly, was Benjamin Marra&#8217;s Night Business. A disciple of Paul Gulacy in spirit, Marra embodies a certain verve that I find refreshing in these mopey times. It may be a little too hardcore, too fanzine-ish for some Comics Comics readers, but for me, it&#8217;s a breath of fresh air, and a surprising find at MoCCA. The story of a stripper who won&#8217;t be bought and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[108,921,1010],"class_list":["post-300","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-marra","tag-mocca","tag-gulacy"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/comicscomicsmag.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/comicscomicsmag.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/comicscomicsmag.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comicscomicsmag.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comicscomicsmag.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=300"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/comicscomicsmag.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/comicscomicsmag.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comicscomicsmag.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comicscomicsmag.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}