{"id":1893,"date":"2014-06-21T11:00:25","date_gmt":"2014-06-21T15:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/?p=1893"},"modified":"2024-01-21T11:32:22","modified_gmt":"2024-01-21T16:32:22","slug":"hatke-zita-spacegirl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/2014\/06\/hatke-zita-spacegirl\/","title":{"rendered":"Hatke, Ben: (01) <cite>Zita the Spacegirl<\/cite>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/steelypips.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2014\/06\/zita-cover.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/steelypips.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2014\/06\/zita-cover.jpg\" alt=\"Zita the Spacegirl cover\" width=\"246\" height=\"346\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-1895\" \/><\/a> I got <strong>Ben Hatke&#8217;s <cite>Zita the Spacegirl<\/cite><\/strong> for SteelyKid, but wasn&#8217;t on her bedtime rotation the night she finished it, so flipped through it myself quick.<\/p>\n<p>This graphic novel is really charming. Zita and her friend Joseph are playing and find a mysterious device with a big red button in a crater. Zita, of course, pushes the button; a portal appears, tentacles grab Joseph and pull him through, and then the portal closes. Zita takes a moment to freak out and then jumps after him.<\/p>\n<p>On the other side of the portal, she finds many different aliens on a planet that&#8217;s going to be hit by an asteroid in three days. She explores the planet and collects friends and allies in her quest to rescue Joseph (picking up a superhero-style costume along the way, as you can see on the cover).<\/p>\n<p>I love Zita&#8217;s bravery, active nature, and loyalty to her friends. And the art is great, clean but detailed enough to show off the inventiveness of the worlbuilding. (The <a href=\"http:\/\/zitaspacegirl.com\/webcomics\/\">author&#8217;s site<\/a> has four one-page comics about Zita and friends, which give a good sense of it.) <\/p>\n<p>SteelyKid enjoyed it, by the way, but according to Chad was somewhat taken aback by the fact that the end of the volume concluded <em>a<\/em> story but not <em>the<\/em> story. So we&#8217;ll be acquiring the next two volumes (it&#8217;s a just-completed trilogy) pronto and will report back. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I got Ben Hatke&#8217;s Zita the Spacegirl for SteelyKid, but wasn&#8217;t on her bedtime rotation the night she finished it, so flipped through it myself quick. This graphic novel is really charming. Zita and her friend Joseph are playing and find a mysterious device with a big red button in a crater. Zita, of course, &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/2014\/06\/hatke-zita-spacegirl\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Hatke, Ben: (01) <cite>Zita the Spacegirl<\/cite>&#8220;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55,15,38],"tags":[237],"class_list":["post-1893","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-comics","category-sf-and-fantasy","category-zita-the-spacegirl","tag-hatke-ben"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1893","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1893"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1893\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2448,"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1893\/revisions\/2448"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1893"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1893"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1893"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}