{"id":896,"date":"2009-03-04T16:56:16","date_gmt":"2009-03-04T22:56:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.delirium.org\/?p=896"},"modified":"2009-12-28T03:06:35","modified_gmt":"2009-12-28T09:06:35","slug":"ultimate-x-men-the-tempest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/?p=896","title":{"rendered":"Ultimate X-Men: The Tempest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I assume I liked the last Ultimate X-Men book, insofar as I&#8217;ve been liking them in general. Plus also, tragedy struck, and while I don&#8217;t automatically like that (depending on what happened), I definitely always like aftermath. And <a title=\"Ultimate X-Men Vol. 9: The Tempest by Brian K. Vaughan, at Amazon\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Ultimate-X-Men-Vol-9-Tempest\/dp\/0785114041\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Tempest<\/a> is very much about aftermath, even though it&#8217;s in a quiet way, against the backdrop of a brand new villain and a mutant-assassin in his employ.<\/p>\n<p>And, the book being short, that&#8217;s pretty much all that happened. I don&#8217;t want to elaborate on the aftermath, because, spoilers, and I can&#8217;t elaborate on the new villains, because I&#8217;m supposed to recognize them old school, and I did not get far enough to, I guess? But they made for a good story, and I can ask for little more than that! Except for being so deep into a series as to be pretty confusing, I could recommend\u00c2\u00a0the book\u00c2\u00a0unreservedly as an afternoon&#8217;s diversion.<\/p>\n<p>So. That&#8217;s that, then!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I assume I liked the last Ultimate X-Men book, insofar as I&#8217;ve been liking them in general. Plus also, tragedy struck, and while I don&#8217;t automatically like that (depending on what happened), I definitely always like aftermath. And The Tempest is very much about aftermath, even though it&#8217;s in a quiet way, against the backdrop [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[205,206,207,66,17,38,208,22,40,209],"class_list":["post-896","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-words","tag-a-brand-new-villain","tag-aftermath","tag-an-afternoons-diversion","tag-brian-k-vaughan","tag-graphic-novel","tag-marvel","tag-mutant-assassins","tag-superheroes","tag-ultimate-series","tag-x-men"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/896","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=896"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/896\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=896"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=896"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=896"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}