{"id":3853,"date":"2021-06-04T11:28:07","date_gmt":"2021-06-04T19:28:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/?p=3853"},"modified":"2021-06-04T11:37:22","modified_gmt":"2021-06-04T19:37:22","slug":"monster-pulse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/2021\/06\/04\/monster-pulse\/","title":{"rendered":"Monster Pulse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been a fan of Magnolia Porter Siddell for a <a href=\"\/nfd\/2008\/09\/08\/allow-me-to-recommend-a-thing-on-the-internet\/\" title=\"Bobwhite is now old, and great!\">long time<\/a>. Today she posted the last page of <a href=\"https:\/\/monster-pulse.com\/\" title=\"Who else would come up with this from the starting point of 'well, I really like His Dark Materials and Digimon...'?\">Monster Pulse<\/a>, making it one of the only webcomics I have ever seen tell a cohesive, consistent, and conclusively satisfying story via the steady mechanism of Monday-Wednesday-Friday updates over the course of years. <em>Ten<\/em> years! That&#8217;s an extraordinary achievement, even apart from the sheer wonder and grace of her storytelling, and I think it&#8217;s one of the great success stories of the medium in the 2010s. Porter Siddell pursued evolution and risk in her art, stayed true to her inspirations while exploring far beyond their boundaries, and never let her readers down. I can&#8217;t wait to buy the print editions all over again. Re-read Monster Pulse!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been a fan of Magnolia Porter Siddell for a long time. Today she posted the last page of Monster Pulse, making it one of the only webcomics I have ever seen tell a cohesive, consistent, and conclusively satisfying story via the steady mechanism of Monday-Wednesday-Friday updates over the course of years. Ten years! That&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73,22,58],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3853","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-digital-neighbors","category-plugs","category-toons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3853","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3853"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3853\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3858,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3853\/revisions\/3858"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3853"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3853"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3853"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}