{"id":328,"date":"2009-08-07T20:23:12","date_gmt":"2009-08-08T03:23:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hypercastle.com\/blog\/?p=328"},"modified":"2009-08-07T20:23:12","modified_gmt":"2009-08-08T03:23:12","slug":"folk-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hypercastle.com\/blog\/2009\/08\/07\/folk-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Folk #4"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I just got <em>Folk<\/em> #4 in the mail today, courtesy of the source of sci-fi mini-comic greatness, Tyler Stafford. This is the third issue of <em>Folk<\/em> that I&#8217;ve read, and they just keep getting better and better! Stafford&#8217;s storylines harken back to old-school sci-fi pulp stories but the art and layouts are informed by a twenty-first century cartoon aesthetic. According to the intro, Stafford&#8217;s computer is &#8220;on the fritz&#8221; so this issue is 11 x 17 sheets folded in half (I guess he draws the pages 8.5 x 11?). The larger art looks good, maybe Stafford should continue to make his comics this big.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a page that encapsulates the concept of the issue:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hypercastle.com\/images\/2009-08-07_image1.jpg\"><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>That page also showcases one of the aspects of Stafford&#8217;s comics that I dig the most, the way he blends his borderless scenes together while keeping the flow between them highly readable.<\/p>\n<p>This next page, though, shows the most interesting thing about this comic, the way that Stafford portrays the experience of feeling someone else&#8217;s dream on tape:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hypercastle.com\/images\/2009-08-07_image2.jpg\"><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I highly recommend this comic and I&#8217;m going to keep buying everything that Stafford puts out. <del datetime=\"2017-12-21T04:43:42+00:00\">You can buy Folk #4 here<\/del>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just got Folk #4 in the mail today, courtesy of the source of sci-fi mini-comic greatness, Tyler Stafford. This is the third issue of Folk that I&#8217;ve read, and they just keep getting better and better! Stafford&#8217;s storylines harken back to old-school sci-fi pulp stories but the art and layouts are informed by a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[692],"class_list":["post-328","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-comics-criticism","tag-tyler-stafford"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hypercastle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hypercastle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hypercastle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hypercastle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hypercastle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=328"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hypercastle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hypercastle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hypercastle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hypercastle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}