{"id":85,"date":"2011-10-21T19:56:31","date_gmt":"2011-10-21T19:56:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/microcosmpublishing.dev\/blog\/2011\/10\/featured-awesome-product-of-the-week-nate-powells-any-empire-includes-photo-gallery\/"},"modified":"2011-10-21T19:56:31","modified_gmt":"2011-10-21T19:56:31","slug":"featured-awesome-product-of-the-week-nate-powells-any-empire-includes-photo-gallery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/microcosmpublishing.com\/blog\/2011\/10\/featured-awesome-product-of-the-week-nate-powells-any-empire-includes-photo-gallery\/","title":{"rendered":"Featured Awesome Product of the Week! Nate Powell&#8217;s Any Empire! (Includes Photo Gallery!)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nate Powell&#8217;s beautiful graphic novel follow-up to the Eisner   award-winning <i>Swallow Me Whole   <\/i>examines war and violence, and their trickle-down effects on middle   America. As a gang of small-town kids find themselves reunited in   adulthood, their dark histories collide in a struggle for the future.   <em>Any Empire<\/em>&#8216;s 350 illustrated pages follow three kids in a   Southern town as a rash of mysterious   turtle mutilations forces each to confront their relationship to their   privileged suburban fantasies of violence. Then, after years apart, the   three are thrown together again as adults, amid questions of choice and   force, belonging and betrayal. Note: Like <em>Swallow Me Whole<\/em>,   this book has an amazing-looking woven-cloth-style hardcover that feels   like an old library book. Definitely something you&#8217;ll want to keep   forever and read often. So awesome.<\/p>\n<p><em>Get a copy of Any Empire <a href=\"https:\/\/microcosmpublishing.com\/catalog\/books\/3640\/\">here.<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p><i><a href=\"https:\/\/microcosmpublishing.com\/catalog\/books\/3640\/\">  <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Alt text\" src=\"https:\/\/microcosmpublishing.com\/images\/first.jpg\" \/><br \/><\/a><\/i><\/p>\n<img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Alt text\" src=\"https:\/\/microcosmpublishing.com\/images\/9.jpg\" \/>  <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Alt text\" src=\"https:\/\/microcosmpublishing.com\/images\/8.jpg\" \/>  <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Alt text\" src=\"https:\/\/microcosmpublishing.com\/images\/7.jpg\" \/>  <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Alt text\" src=\"https:\/\/microcosmpublishing.com\/images\/6.jpg\" \/>  <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Alt text\" src=\"https:\/\/microcosmpublishing.com\/images\/5.jpg\" \/>  <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Alt text\" src=\"https:\/\/microcosmpublishing.com\/images\/3.jpg\" \/>  <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Alt text\" src=\"https:\/\/microcosmpublishing.com\/images\/2.jpg\" \/>  <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Alt text\" src=\"https:\/\/microcosmpublishing.com\/images\/1.jpg\" \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Alt text\" src=\"https:\/\/microcosmpublishing.com\/images\/last.jpg\" \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Check out some beautiful interior shots of our Featured Awesome Product of the Week!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-85","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogifesto"],"my_excerpt":"<p>Nate Powell's beautiful graphic novel follow-up to the Eisner   award-winning <i>Swallow Me Whole   <\/i>examines war and violence, and their trickle-down effects on middle   America. As a gang of small-town kids find themselves reunited in   adulthood, their dark histories collide in a struggle for the future.   <em>Any Empire<\/em>'s 350 illustrated pages follow three kids in a   Southern town as a rash of mysterious   turtle mutilations forces each to confront their relationship to their   privileged suburban fantasies of violence. Then, after years apart, the   three are thrown together again as adults, amid questions of choice and   force, belonging and betrayal. Note: Like <em>Swallow Me Whole<\/em>,   this book has an amazing-looking woven-cloth-style hardcover that feels   like an old library book. Definitely something you'll want to keep   forever and read often. So awesome.<\/p>  <p><em>Get a copy of Any Empire <a href=\"https:\/\/microcosmpublishing.com\/catalog\/books\/3640\/\">here.<\/a><\/em><\/p>  <p><i><a href=\"https:\/\/microcosmpublishing.com\/catalog\/books\/3640\/\">  <img alt=\"Alt text\" src=\"https:\/\/microcosmpublishing.com\/images\/first.jpg\" \/><br \/><\/a><\/i><\/p>  <p>  <img alt=\"Alt text\" src=\"https:\/\/microcosmpublishing.com\/images\/9.jpg\" \/>  <img alt=\"Alt text\" src=\"https:\/\/microcosmpublishing.com\/images\/8.jpg\" \/>  <img alt=\"Alt text\" src=\"https:\/\/microcosmpublishing.com\/images\/7.jpg\" \/>  <img alt=\"Alt text\" src=\"https:\/\/microcosmpublishing.com\/images\/6.jpg\" \/>  <img alt=\"Alt text\" src=\"https:\/\/microcosmpublishing.com\/images\/5.jpg\" \/>  <img alt=\"Alt text\" src=\"https:\/\/microcosmpublishing.com\/images\/3.jpg\" \/>  <img alt=\"Alt text\" src=\"https:\/\/microcosmpublishing.com\/images\/2.jpg\" \/>  <img alt=\"Alt text\" src=\"https:\/\/microcosmpublishing.com\/images\/1.jpg\" \/><\/p>  <img alt=\"Alt text\" src=\"https:\/\/microcosmpublishing.com\/images\/last.jpg\" \/>","my_excerpt_rendered":"<p>Nate Powell&#8217;s beautiful graphic novel follow-up to the Eisner   award-winning <i>Swallow Me Whole   <\/i>examines war and violence, and their trickle-down effects on middle   America. As a gang of small-town kids find themselves reunited in   adulthood, their dark histories collide in a struggle for the future.   <em>Any Empire<\/em>&#8216;s 350 illustrated pages follow three kids in a   Southern town as a rash of mysterious   turtle mutilations forces each to confront their relationship to their   privileged suburban fantasies of violence. Then, after years apart, the   three are thrown together again as adults, amid questions of choice and   force, belonging and betrayal. Note: Like <em>Swallow Me Whole<\/em>,   this book has an amazing-looking woven-cloth-style hardcover that feels   like an old library book. Definitely something you&#8217;ll want to keep   forever and read often. 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