{"id":2684,"date":"2018-05-08T23:06:24","date_gmt":"2018-05-09T03:06:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.puckcomics.com\/?p=2684"},"modified":"2018-05-08T23:06:24","modified_gmt":"2018-05-09T03:06:24","slug":"deak-sledge-gecko-recommends","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.puckcomics.com\/?p=2684","title":{"rendered":"Deak Sledge &#8211; Gecko Recommends"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This week I&#8217;m profiling another webcomic by Mike Williams, a good comic friend of mine.  <a href=\"http:\/\/deaksledge.thecomicseries.com\/\">Deak Sledge<\/a> is &#8230; not at all like Puck.  At all.  But it&#8217;s really, really good.<\/p>\n<p>Mike&#8217;s work hearkens back to the serialized crime strip comics of the 1950&#8217;s.  Many readers might not even know anything about those old comics, but Mike&#8217;s artwork beautifully echoes the hard shadows, harsh lighting and noir atmosphere of that forgotten genre.  Deak Sledge is a tough detective, and his life is NOIR AS F***.  He&#8217;s the kind of dude who&#8217;s always got an inner monologue running, even during a fist fight.  I respect that in a man.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s dark, edgy, and about as tonally different from Puck as you can get, but if you have any affinity for film noir, detective stories or the grittier side of the comic world&#8217;s past, it&#8217;s a must-read.  <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/deaksledge.thecomicseries.com\/\">Go check it out!<\/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=2684\"><\/fb:like><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week I&#8217;m profiling another webcomic by Mike Williams, a good comic friend of mine. Deak Sledge is &#8230; not at all like Puck. At all. But it&#8217;s really, really good. Mike&#8217;s work hearkens back to the serialized crime strip [&hellip;] <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.puckcomics.com\/?p=2684\">&darr; Read the rest of this entry&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2677,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[334],"tags":[677],"class_list":["post-2684","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gecko-recommends","tag-deak-sledge","uentry","postonpage-1","odd","post-author-electricgecko"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.puckcomics.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2684","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=2684"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.puckcomics.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2684\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2685,"href":"http:\/\/www.puckcomics.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2684\/revisions\/2685"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.puckcomics.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2677"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.puckcomics.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.puckcomics.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2684"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.puckcomics.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}