{"id":2215,"date":"2017-03-14T19:55:22","date_gmt":"2017-03-14T23:55:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.puckcomics.com\/?p=2215"},"modified":"2017-11-06T08:47:31","modified_gmt":"2017-11-06T13:47:31","slug":"ariel-51","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.puckcomics.com\/?p=2215","title":{"rendered":"Ariel 51"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hey guys!  I&#8217;m restarting a new semi-weekly feature that I used to do once upon a time, called &#8216;Gecko Recommends&#8217; (or &#8216;Gecko Reco&#8217; if you&#8217;re cool.)  Here I&#8217;ll be profiling the comics that really, really need profiling, so here we go!<\/p>\n<p>First up is my friend Bill Taylor&#8217;s latest comic undertaking, <a href=\"https:\/\/tapas.io\/series\/Ariel-51\">ARIEL 51<\/a>. I was a huge fan of Bill&#8217;s old &#8216;Tripp&#8217; comic; it perfectly blended two things I care about most: narrative and character-based humor. It&#8217;s still early days yet, but I think Ariel 51, his newest venture, is going to be another great one.  <\/p>\n<p>His visual style pops, his writing is wonderful and he has an ear for dialogue.  Also, it&#8217;s an alien-themed comic starring a cute nerd girl.  What&#8217;s not to like?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/tapas.io\/series\/Ariel-51\">Check out Ariel 51 here!<\/a>  And tell &#8217;em Gecko sent ya!  <\/p>\n<div class=\"facebook-like\"><fb:like layout=\"standard\" show_faces=\"true\" href=\"http:\/\/www.puckcomics.com\/?p=2215\"><\/fb:like><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hey guys! I&#8217;m restarting a new semi-weekly feature that I used to do once upon a time, called &#8216;Gecko Recommends&#8217; (or &#8216;Gecko Reco&#8217; if you&#8217;re cool.) Here I&#8217;ll be profiling the comics that really, really need profiling, so here we [&hellip;] <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.puckcomics.com\/?p=2215\">&darr; Read the rest of this entry&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2223,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[334],"tags":[566,346],"class_list":["post-2215","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gecko-recommends","tag-ariel-51","tag-bill-taylor","uentry","postonpage-1","odd","post-author-electricgecko"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.puckcomics.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2215","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.puckcomics.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.puckcomics.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.puckcomics.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.puckcomics.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2215"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/www.puckcomics.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2215\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2491,"href":"http:\/\/www.puckcomics.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2215\/revisions\/2491"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.puckcomics.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2223"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.puckcomics.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.puckcomics.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.puckcomics.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}