{"id":876,"date":"2015-06-08T12:24:57","date_gmt":"2015-06-08T17:24:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/marissalingen.com\/blog\/?p=876"},"modified":"2015-06-08T12:26:06","modified_gmt":"2015-06-08T17:26:06","slug":"last-man-the-royal-cup-by-balak-sanlaville-and-vives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marissalingen.com\/blog\/?p=876","title":{"rendered":"Last Man: The Royal Cup, by Balak, Sanlaville, and Vives"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Review copy provided by First Second Books.<\/p>\n<p>The first volume of this series came out earlier this year, and I reviewed it. I basically described it as Tintin Goes to a Tournament, Manga Style, and as an installation rather than a complete story.<\/p>\n<p>The second volume is like that but with wayyyy more gratuitous sexism. So&#8230;if that&#8217;s what you&#8217;re looking for&#8230;here it is? I am not really interested in further volumes, after this one. Left a bad taste in my mouth.<\/p>\n<p>This is apparently not my week for reviews and the awkwardness of the boilerplate text at the end of reviews.  So, in case it was unclear, I do not recommend this book.  If, however, simplistic storyline plus loads of gratuitous sexism is your thing, or if you&#8217;re looking to do research on this type of graphic novel&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>Please consider using our link to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/1626720479\/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;creativeASIN=1626720479&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=novegazi-20&amp;linkId=FGLAIX7FIBGKBDGB\">buy <em>The Royal Cup<\/em> from Amazon<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Review copy provided by First Second Books. The first volume of this series came out earlier this year, and I reviewed it. I basically described it as Tintin Goes to a Tournament, Manga Style, and as an installation rather than a complete story. The second volume is like that but with wayyyy more gratuitous sexism. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[7],"class_list":["post-876","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-bookses-precious"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marissalingen.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/876","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/marissalingen.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/marissalingen.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marissalingen.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marissalingen.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=876"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/marissalingen.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/876\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":882,"href":"https:\/\/marissalingen.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/876\/revisions\/882"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marissalingen.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marissalingen.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=876"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marissalingen.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}