{"id":206,"date":"2006-05-12T18:12:36","date_gmt":"2006-05-13T01:12:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stevegerber.wpengine.com\/?p=206"},"modified":"2006-05-12T18:12:36","modified_gmt":"2006-05-13T01:12:36","slug":"some-kind-words-about-hard-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/stevegerber.com\/?p=206","title":{"rendered":"Some Kind Words About Hard Time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.comicbookresources.com\/columns\/index.cgi?column=pd&#038;article=2453\">Steven Grant&#8217;s Permanent Damage<\/a> column this week:<\/p>\n<p><center>\\*&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;\\*&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;\\*<\/center><\/p>\n<p><strong>HARD TIME<\/strong> #2-5 by Steve Gerber, Mary Skrenes &#038; Brian Hurtt, 32 pg color comics ($2.50@)<\/p>\n<p>I still can&#8217;t quite warm up to Hurtt&#8217;s art, but it has grown more expressive, and the real show here is Gerber &#038; Skrenes&#8217; brutal prison drama\/social drama. Teenage co-conspirator in a Columbine-like incident ends up doing 50 years in maximum security, and incessantly finds himself the prey of older, tougher cons while his mother and lawyer try to line up do-gooders to secure his release. The hero&#8217;s life is simplified slightly by sympathetic if reticent fellow cons and an ancient, invisible energy being that lives in the hero&#8217;s body. In this second series &#8211; unfortunately, it&#8217;s currently walking its last mile &#8211; Gerber &#038; Skrenes shift the battleground a little, moving slowly from questions of mundane evil to cosmic evil, as a serial killer enters the prison population. If anything published by a major company qualifies as a writer&#8217;s tour-de-force, this does. Buy it while you still can.<\/p>\n<p><center>\\*&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;\\*&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;\\*<\/center><\/p>\n<p>Full disclosure: Grant is a fellow Las Vegan and a friend, but this review was unsolicited and  unexpected.  Thanks.<\/p>\n<p>(We disagree, though, about Brian Hurtt&#8217;s artwork. I think Brian&#8217;s moody, yet straightforward approach to the material suited *Hard Time* perfectly.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Steven Grant&#8217;s Permanent Damage column this week: \\*&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;\\*&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;\\* HARD TIME #2-5 by Steve Gerber, Mary Skrenes &#038; Brian Hurtt, 32 pg color comics ($2.50@) I still can&#8217;t quite warm up to Hurtt&#8217;s art, but it has grown more expressive, and the real show here is Gerber &#038; Skrenes&#8217; brutal prison drama\/social drama. Teenage co-conspirator [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":41,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-206","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/stevegerber.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/stevegerber.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/stevegerber.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stevegerber.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/41"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stevegerber.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=206"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/stevegerber.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/stevegerber.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stevegerber.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stevegerber.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}