{"id":4486,"date":"2025-11-12T15:00:37","date_gmt":"2025-11-12T22:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/?p=4486"},"modified":"2025-09-15T20:32:11","modified_gmt":"2025-09-16T02:32:11","slug":"book-jackrabbit-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/2025\/11\/12\/book-jackrabbit-2014\/","title":{"rendered":"BOOK: Jackrabbit (2014)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><u><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft \" src=\"https:\/\/images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com\/images\/S\/compressed.photo.goodreads.com\/books\/1392007173i\/20762494.jpg\" alt=\"Jackrabbit\" width=\"200\" height=\"320\" \/>Jackrabbit<br \/><\/u><\/strong>Year: 2014<br \/>Author: Ian Thomas Healy<br \/>Length: 256 pages<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ve watched a lot of superhero movies and read at least a few superhero comics, but I haven\u2019t read any superhero books before. This changed when I picked up <em>Jackrabbit<\/em>, a book in the <em>Just Cause<\/em> universe of superheroes. The idea of a 6-foot-tall superhero rabbit was amusing enough for me to give it a try. What I came away with was a smartly written superhero story that was as much fun as it was funny. Sure, it might have been a little too horny for the standard superhero fare, but you can get away with more in a book than in more visual mediums.<\/p>\n<p>While somewhat formulaic, <em>Jackrabbit<\/em> is an origin story for the titular superhero\u2014although you can\u2019t really call them that as these characters are technically \u201cheralds\u201d of obscure gods like the god of rabbits. This transformation results in a super-powered rabbit man who feels like the antics of Bugs Bunny combined with the fourth-wall breaking snark of Deadpool. The sidekick\/foil of Bluebird only made this better, who chatters away in run-on sentences without taking a breath. With the two of them together trying to save the world from an invasion of cockroaches, we might just stand a chance.<\/p>\n<p>I appreciated the diversity of a BIPOC main character, as well as some LGBTQ+ representation\u2014even if both felt a little stereotypical at times. But hey, some representation is better than no representation at all. There was also enough inclusion of references from the main <em>Just Cause<\/em> series of books that made me curious what the more serious superhero fare from this author is like. I\u2019ll have to check them out at some point.<\/p>\n<p>An uncommon origin story for a comedic superhero, I give <i>Jackrabbit<\/i> 4.0 stars out of 5.<\/p>\n<h2><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-647\" src=\"http:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/255px-Five-pointed_star_svg-150x150.png\" alt=\"255px-Five-pointed_star_svg\" width=\"50\" height=\"50\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-647\" src=\"http:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/255px-Five-pointed_star_svg-150x150.png\" alt=\"255px-Five-pointed_star_svg\" width=\"50\" height=\"50\" \/> <strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-647\" src=\"http:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/255px-Five-pointed_star_svg-150x150.png\" alt=\"255px-Five-pointed_star_svg\" width=\"50\" height=\"50\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-647\" src=\"http:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/255px-Five-pointed_star_svg-150x150.png\" alt=\"255px-Five-pointed_star_svg\" width=\"50\" height=\"50\" \/><\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"820\" height=\"312\" src=\"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/BMW-the-Critic-v3.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4100\" srcset=\"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/BMW-the-Critic-v3.png 820w, https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/BMW-the-Critic-v3-300x114.png 300w, https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/BMW-the-Critic-v3-768x292.png 768w, https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/BMW-the-Critic-v3-640x244.png 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 820px) 100vw, 820px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>JackrabbitYear: 2014Author: Ian Thomas HealyLength: 256 pages I\u2019ve watched a lot of superhero movies and read at least a few superhero comics, but I haven\u2019t read any superhero books before. This changed when I picked up Jackrabbit, a book in the Just Cause universe of superheroes. The idea of a 6-foot-tall superhero rabbit was amusing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,54],"tags":[26,55,4300,4301,4298,4299,8,39],"class_list":["post-4486","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-4-0-stars","category-book","tag-26","tag-book","tag-herald","tag-ian-thomas-healy","tag-jackrabbit","tag-just-cause","tag-review","tag-superhero"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4486","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4486"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4486\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4491,"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4486\/revisions\/4491"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}