{"id":1152,"date":"2012-01-18T03:40:19","date_gmt":"2012-01-18T09:40:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/?p=1152"},"modified":"2012-01-15T14:46:05","modified_gmt":"2012-01-15T20:46:05","slug":"book-2-of-52-local","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/2012\/01\/book-2-of-52-local\/","title":{"rendered":"Book 2 (of 52) \u2013 Local"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_1153\" style=\"width: 290px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Local-Brian-Wood\/dp\/193496400X\/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1326656623&amp;sr=8-1jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1153\" class=\" wp-image-1153\" title=\"LCOAL HC \" src=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/local.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"280\" height=\"420\" srcset=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/local.jpg 400w, http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/local-200x300.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 280px) 100vw, 280px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1153\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Local - Brian Wood and Ryan Kelly<\/p><\/div>\n<p>A few years back, I stopped reading comics.\u00a0 I&#8217;m not sure why, exactly.\u00a0 For a while, I kept buying them, thinking that I would get back in the habit sooner or later, but those weekly trips to the comic store turned into monthly trips turned into quarterly trips, until one day, when I went in, they said they assumed I wasn&#8217;t coming back and had emptied out my pull list.\u00a0 Anyway, one of the books I was reading at the time was Local, by writer Brian Wood and artist Ryan Kelly.\u00a0 The last issue I read was probably #5, which was cover dated April of 2006.\u00a0 The harcover collection came out in September of 2008 from the good folks at Oni Press, and I got it this past Christmas.<\/p>\n<p>Local is &#8220;a collection of twelve interconnected short stories.&#8221;\u00a0 The tie that binds them together is Megan McKeenan, who starts as a teenaged girl and ages approximately one year with each issue.\u00a0 She is adrift through life, looking for a place where she belongs.\u00a0 Each issue, or chapter in the hardcover, occurs in a different locale, moving from Portland to Minneapolis to Chicago to Toronto to New York and, finally, to Burlington, Vermont, where a 30-year old Megan makes peace with who she is.<\/p>\n<p>It was nice to read a comic again after all this time.\u00a0 While I doubt that I will be hitting the comic store weekly again, there are some other books that I had not finished that I would like to revisit.\u00a0 A few of them I have been getting for birthdays and Christmases and have just been waiting for the stories to complete.\u00a0 Others, I may have to seek out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few years back, I stopped reading comics.\u00a0 I&#8217;m not sure why, exactly.\u00a0 For a while, I kept buying them, thinking that I would get back in the habit sooner or later, but those weekly trips to the comic store turned into monthly trips turned into quarterly trips, until one day, when I went in, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1153,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[1676,1675,416,1677],"class_list":["post-1152","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-39","tag-brian-wood","tag-local","tag-oni-press","tag-ryan-kelly"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1152","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1152"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1152\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1155,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1152\/revisions\/1155"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1153"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}