{"id":59134,"date":"2012-07-16T17:37:09","date_gmt":"2012-07-16T22:37:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/?p=59134"},"modified":"2012-07-16T17:53:01","modified_gmt":"2012-07-16T22:53:01","slug":"dr-grordbort-presents-the-misadventures-of-lord-cockswain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2012\/07\/16\/59134-dr-grordbort-presents-the-misadventures-of-lord-cockswain\/","title":{"rendered":"Dr Grordbort: the misadventures of Lord Cockswain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"intro\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2012\/07\/16\/59134-dr-grordbort-presents-the-misadventures-of-lord-cockswain\/greg-broadmore-dr-grordbort\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-47878\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-47878 no-lazyload\" title=\"Greg Broadmore Dr Grordbort\" src=\"http:\/\/www-images.theonering.org\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/Greg-Broadmore-Dr-Grordbort-300x174.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"174\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/Greg-Broadmore-Dr-Grordbort-300x174.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/Greg-Broadmore-Dr-Grordbort.jpg 618w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a> Those who watched TORn&#8217;s live <del>Comic Con<\/del> HobbitCon <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theonering.net\/live\/comiccon\/hobbit\/\">feed<\/a> might have <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Weta Workshop&#8217;s<\/span> <em>Greg Broadmore<\/em> busy signing copies of his a graphic novel at the <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Weta Booth<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>As a fan of Greg Broadmore&#8217;s <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Dr. Grordbort<\/span> I thought I wouldn&#8217;t mind finding more about it. It turns out that he was signing his new goofy <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Dr. Grordbort<\/span> graphic novel called &#8220;<em>TRIUMPH: Unnecessarily Violent Tales of Science Adventure for the Simple and Unfortunate<\/em>&#8221; (quite a mouthful).\u00a0 Published in hard-cover, it contains two gloriously illustrated stories following the misadventures of the brutish (British) space hero Lord Cockswain.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>More tongue-in-cheek (and, <font color=\"red\">warning<\/font>, a trifle crude) retro\/steampunk space action after the break:<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The first story \u201c<em>Into the Lair of the Space Wankers<\/em>,\u201d wherein the brutish Cockswain <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2012\/07\/16\/59134-dr-grordbort-presents-the-misadventures-of-lord-cockswain\/triumph_cover_1000-edit\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-59144\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-59144 no-lazyload\" title=\"triumph_cover_1000-edit\" src=\"http:\/\/www-images.theonering.org\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/triumph_cover_1000-edit.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"158\" height=\"223\" \/><\/a>discovers an alien planet that uses tears from children to brew Kuiper Cola, the solar system\u2019s most delicious beverage (naturally :))<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<em>The Psychiatrist<\/em>\u201d has an emotionally repressed braggart Cockswain hints at a twisted childhood while channeling Ernest Hemingway by way of Flash Gordon to blow away a Gilded Gristleback from outer space. (as you do :))<\/p>\n<p>Finally it features a classic faux-catalog of ads for a remote-control punching machine \u2014 the Punch-O-Tron \u2014 and Broadmore\u2019s signature assortment of steampunk weaponry and ratro ray guns.<\/p>\n<p>A lot of humorous sf-goodness to be had by all!<\/p>\n<p>Read the full story and check out a glorious gallery of illustrations over on Wired <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/underwire\/2012\/07\/steampunk-triumph\/\">Wired<\/a>:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Those who watched TORn&#8217;s live Comic Con HobbitCon feed might have Weta Workshop&#8217;s Greg Broadmore busy signing copies&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":83,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[123,16,495,104],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-59134","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events-comiccon","category-events-conventions","category-miscellaneous","category-production-weta-workshop"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1tLoH-fnM","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59134","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/83"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=59134"}],"version-history":[{"count":33,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59134\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59238,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59134\/revisions\/59238"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}