{"id":361,"date":"2009-05-24T19:31:55","date_gmt":"2009-05-25T00:31:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.motorballer.org\/beyond\/?p=361"},"modified":"2009-05-31T12:22:37","modified_gmt":"2009-05-31T17:22:37","slug":"manga-a-day-2-gunsmith-cats-burst-vol-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.motorballer.org\/beyond\/2009\/05\/24\/manga-a-day-2-gunsmith-cats-burst-vol-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Manga-A-Day 2 – Gunsmith Cats: Burst v2"},"content":{"rendered":"

For some reason, I didn’t pick up on it so much in the first volume, but the main story running from the first volume through a good chunk of this one shares a commonality with the Daniel Craig<\/span> Bond<\/span> reboot, Casino Royale<\/span>. Namely, both involve baddies planning on shorting stocks in conjunction with a terrorist attack<\/span>, though the execution is different in each, it makes me wonder if someone involved with the writing of Casino Royale<\/span> was cribbing a bit from Burst<\/span>. Probably just a coincidence though, given how long it takes movies to get off the ground, or even something else coming out before both that I don’t know about which influenced both.<\/p>\n

With a noble sacrifice, Rally<\/span> thwarts the bad guys and the first story comes to a close, but its clear that Sonoda’s<\/span> left quite a bit hanging and will return to it at a later point. For the last, oh, two-thirds of the book or so, we have a Bean<\/span>-centric tale with a transport gone bad and an obsessed detective whose come to Detroit to put an end to Bean<\/span> for good. Its an enjoyable little romp that just shows why you don’t mess with him, even if you’ve caught him outside a car (Jason Statham’s<\/span> got nothing on this transporter). Though I’m moving right into Volume 3 tomorrow, it was nice to end on a finished story and not have another mid-story cutoff.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

For some reason, I didn’t pick up on it so much in the first volume, but the main story running from the first volume through a good chunk of this one shares a commonality with the Daniel Craig Bond reboot, Casino Royale. Namely, both involve baddies planning on shorting stocks in conjunction with a terrorist […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1015],"tags":[1169,1090,1092,1085,1093,1091,1086,1087],"class_list":["post-361","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-manga","tag-action","tag-casino-royale","tag-daniel-craig","tag-gunsmith-cats","tag-james-bond","tag-jason-statham","tag-kenichi-sonoda","tag-manga-a-day"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.motorballer.org\/beyond\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.motorballer.org\/beyond\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.motorballer.org\/beyond\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.motorballer.org\/beyond\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.motorballer.org\/beyond\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=361"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.motorballer.org\/beyond\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":499,"href":"https:\/\/www.motorballer.org\/beyond\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361\/revisions\/499"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.motorballer.org\/beyond\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.motorballer.org\/beyond\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.motorballer.org\/beyond\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}