{"id":348,"date":"2021-01-12T01:15:00","date_gmt":"2021-01-12T06:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/james.hamsterrepublic.com\/?p=348"},"modified":"2022-11-07T19:04:22","modified_gmt":"2022-11-08T00:04:22","slug":"comics-i-love-rising-sand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/james.hamsterrepublic.com\/?p=348","title":{"rendered":"Comics I Love &#8211; Rising Sand"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In the year of 2020, one of my favorite ways to relax and de-stress was to read web comics and graphic novels. So for New Years 2021, here are some of my favorites, and why I love them<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Rising Sand &#8211; by Ty Dunitz &amp; Jenn Lee<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/risingsand.glass\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"428\" height=\"277\" src=\"https:\/\/james.hamsterrepublic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/12_RisingSand.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-349\" srcset=\"https:\/\/james.hamsterrepublic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/12_RisingSand.jpg 428w, https:\/\/james.hamsterrepublic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/12_RisingSand-300x194.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 428px) 100vw, 428px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Why I Love It<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">First of all, I love the amazing artwork, and the incredibly cool designs. The characters, environments, and technology are just fantastically designed. The character&#8217;s faces and expressions in particular have a vivid abundance of personality that merges ugliness and beauty, and sometimes transcends both.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And the designs only get cooler when they push the limits of practicality into glorious absurdity. Qeb, wearing his Weight of Existence bracelets, shouldn&#8217;t be able to even stand up, let alone throw punches, but world of Rising Glass is one where such impossible things are not just possible, but necessary.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I also love the rich sci-fi worldbuilding and the way goddesses and religions shape the backstory. The dialog stands on its own, and never gets exposition-heavy, but at the bottom of almost every page is a block of footnotes packed with background history. I completely ignored them at first, but when I was almost caught up, and I finally noticed how interesting they were, I couldn&#8217;t help going back to the beginning to reading everything all over again.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Read it at <a href=\"https:\/\/risingsand.glass\">https:\/\/risingsand.glass<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-css-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\">Read my <a href=\"https:\/\/james.hamsterrepublic.com\/writing\/\">Book<\/a>! \u2013 James Paige<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the year of 2020, one of my favorite ways to relax and de-stress was to read web comics and graphic novels. So for New Years 2021, here are some of my favorites, and why I love them Rising Sand &#8211; by Ty Dunitz &amp; Jenn Lee Why I Love It First of all, I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[31],"class_list":["post-348","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews","tag-comics-i-love"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/james.hamsterrepublic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/james.hamsterrepublic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/james.hamsterrepublic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/james.hamsterrepublic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/james.hamsterrepublic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=348"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/james.hamsterrepublic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":361,"href":"https:\/\/james.hamsterrepublic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348\/revisions\/361"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/james.hamsterrepublic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/james.hamsterrepublic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/james.hamsterrepublic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}