{"id":2113,"date":"2008-05-05T21:19:00","date_gmt":"2008-05-06T04:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jasonbot.com\/?p=2113"},"modified":"2008-05-05T21:19:00","modified_gmt":"2008-05-06T04:19:00","slug":"id-be-lion-if-i-said-this-wasnt-a-terrible-title","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jasonbot.com\/?p=2113","title":{"rendered":"I&#8217;d be lion if I said this wasn&#8217;t a terrible title."},"content":{"rendered":"<div align=\"left\">(<i>Posting Early&#8230;<\/i> )<\/p>\n<p>Today&#8217;s illustration is a monstrous steed for the subject of my <a href=\"http:\/\/bootlegsketch.blogspot.com\/2008\/05\/starts-with-skele-and-ends-with-tor.html\">previous post<\/a>. He resembles his <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Manticore\">mythological namesake<\/a>, but with some minor differences, and of course he&#8217;s patterned after <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Battle_Cat\">Battle Cat<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Panthor#Panthor\">Panthor<\/a>, and my own fan character, <a href=\"http:\/\/bootlegsketch.blogspot.com\/2007\/04\/face-it-jackpot-you-just-hit-tiger.html\">War-Tiger<\/a>. He is not to be confused with <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Montecore#Roy.27s_tiger_injury\">Montecore<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jasonbot.com\/bootlegsketch\/manticoreweb.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.jasonbot.com\/bootlegsketch\/manticoreweb.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div align=\"center\"><span style=\"font-size:78%;\">click above for larger view<\/span><\/div>\n<p>This one feels a little stiff and &#8220;blah&#8221; to me. But as longtime readers will note, I live my life by the phrase, &#8220;they can&#8217;t all be winners.&#8221; I&#8217;m happy with the color scheme though&#8230; I feel like I successfully emulated the bright and garish style of 80&#8217;s action figures. Forward, to the nerdy bio!<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><strong>* * *<\/strong><\/div>\n<p><i><b>PROFILE:<\/b> Armed with a poisonous sting, a deafening roar, and the power of flight, the fearsome MANTICORE serves HIGH PRIEST LEO as loyally as the High Priest serves the God-King of Infinita. Like Battle Cat, Manticore is a highly intelligent creature, fully capable of speech. <\/p>\n<p><b>HISTORY:<\/b> Upon achieving the rank of High Priest, Manticore was granted to Leo by the God-King of Infinita himself, as a servant and ally. Manticore is the head of his clan, and is widely known for his arrogant sense of pride as well as his steadfast sense of loyalty and duty.<\/i><\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><strong>* * *<\/strong><\/div>\n<p>Also posted on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.he-man.org\/\">He-Man.org<\/a> fan-art <a href=\"http:\/\/www.he-man.org\/forums\/boards\/forumdisplay.php?f=5\">forums<\/a>. The thread is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.he-man.org\/forums\/boards\/showthread.php?t=159196\">here<\/a>, and my post is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.he-man.org\/forums\/boards\/showthread.php?p=1926683#post1926683\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Posting Early&#8230; ) Today&#8217;s illustration is a monstrous steed for the subject of my previous post. He resembles his mythological namesake, but with some minor differences, and of course he&#8217;s patterned after Battle Cat, Panthor, and my own fan character, War-Tiger. He is not to be confused with Montecore. click above for larger view This [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,14,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2113","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-he-manshe-ra","category-he-manshe-ra-non-canon","category-he-manshe-ra-villains"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jasonbot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2113","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/jasonbot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/jasonbot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jasonbot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jasonbot.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2113"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/jasonbot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2113\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jasonbot.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jasonbot.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jasonbot.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}