{"id":989,"date":"2008-12-07T22:25:31","date_gmt":"2008-12-08T08:25:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/raphaellowe.com\/portal\/?p=989"},"modified":"2008-12-07T22:27:20","modified_gmt":"2008-12-08T08:27:20","slug":"captain-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/raphaellowe.com\/portal\/captain-america\/","title":{"rendered":"Captain America"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I was once a bit of a comic book geek.\u00a0 You know, the type that would wait for the new issues to come out on comic book stands every Tuesday and pick up multiple copies of each issue, “one to read, the other to file away in UV-protected plastic covering<\/em>”\u00a0 I was convinced this was an investment I could get rich on.\u00a0 Flash forward about 20 years, what I ended up with is 4 giant comic book boxes taking up valuable space in my closets.<\/p>\n

I’m no longer holding hope that these things will make me rich.\u00a0 But hopefully they may one day pay for a semester of my son’s college tuition?\u00a0 Maybe at least 1 class?\u00a0 One can hope…<\/p>\n

But I digress.\u00a0 I found this neat little “before & after<\/em>” showing a sample of comic book coloring. It’s a nice job…if you look at the details there are gradients upon gradients of color even within the belt buckles and each of the armor plates.\u00a0 That’s a lot of patient Illustrator work.\u00a0 My favorite part is the glint of orange glow reflecting off Captain America’s shoulders.\u00a0 I may not have thought about such details had I tried to do this myself.\u00a0 (via: Cardboard Monocle<\/a>)<\/p>\n

What’s with Cap’s man-boobs though?\u00a0 Plus with all those armor plates, I can’t imagine Cap sneaking up on any criminals without sounding like a Salvation Army donation bell.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I was once a bit of a comic book geek.\u00a0 You know, the type that would wait for the new issues to come out on comic book stands every Tuesday and pick up multiple copies of each issue, “one to read, the other to file away in UV-protected plastic covering”\u00a0 I was convinced this was […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[133,76],"class_list":["post-989","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","tag-captain-america","tag-comics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/raphaellowe.com\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/989"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/raphaellowe.com\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/raphaellowe.com\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/raphaellowe.com\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/raphaellowe.com\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=989"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/raphaellowe.com\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/989\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":991,"href":"https:\/\/raphaellowe.com\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/989\/revisions\/991"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/raphaellowe.com\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=989"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/raphaellowe.com\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=989"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/raphaellowe.com\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=989"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}