{"id":579,"date":"2009-10-08T20:52:00","date_gmt":"2009-10-09T01:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/comicscomicsmag.com\/2009\/10\/corbens-cage\/"},"modified":"2009-10-08T20:52:00","modified_gmt":"2009-10-09T01:52:00","slug":"corbens-cage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/comicscomicsmag.com\/?p=579","title":{"rendered":"Corben&#8217;s Cage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_D8lGkTzFWrk\/Ss6b7MYPyZI\/AAAAAAAABac\/5a5FWmP0IlQ\/s1600-h\/corbencage824.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" style=\"display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 221px; height: 400px;\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_D8lGkTzFWrk\/Ss6b7MYPyZI\/AAAAAAAABac\/5a5FWmP0IlQ\/s400\/corbencage824.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\"id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5390417245246572946\" \/><\/a><br \/>I went over to Jim Rugg&#8217;s house today to hang out. He just finished his <a href=\"http:\/\/www.adhousebooks.com\/books\/afrodisiac.html\">Afrodisiac<\/a> collection for AdHouse Books and I wanted to take a look. I must say that this book blew me away. It&#8217;s going to KILL. Jimmy is a master stylist. He and his co-creator Brian Maruca have crafted something that&#8217;s, for me, beyond description right now. I&#8217;m in shock. Just wait. You&#8217;ll see.<\/p>\n<p>Jim also dragged out his &#8220;Blaxploitation comics&#8221; collection. A longbox of gems from different eras. There was one that really fascinated me though and I can&#8217;t put it down. It&#8217;s Richard Corben&#8217;s take on Luke Cage from 2002. Great colors by Jose Villarrubia. Check out the easy &#8220;realism&#8221; above.<\/p>\n<p>I really don&#8217;t have anything to say about it except:<span style=\"font-style:italic;\"> HOLY CRAP<\/span>, is it beautiful. There&#8217;s something about the odd pairing of Corben and Cage that just works for me. I&#8217;m in shock. I&#8217;d never heard of it or seen it before. Has anyone out there read it? Or at least just gawked at the artwork?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I went over to Jim Rugg&#8217;s house today to hang out. He just finished his Afrodisiac collection for AdHouse Books and I wanted to take a look. I must say that this book blew me away. It&#8217;s going to KILL. Jimmy is a master stylist. He and his co-creator Brian Maruca have crafted something that&#8217;s, for me, beyond description right now. I&#8217;m in shock. Just wait. You&#8217;ll see. Jim also [&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":[166,661,1100],"class_list":["post-579","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-maruca","tag-rugg","tag-corben"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/comicscomicsmag.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/579","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=579"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/comicscomicsmag.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/579\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/comicscomicsmag.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comicscomicsmag.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comicscomicsmag.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}