Optical Sloth

Sorry, a trip to ye olde doctor and other errands kind of killed the afternoon. More updates tomorrow to make up for it!

New stuff from Josh Latta and Stephen Floyd, if there’s new stuff for the store I’ll be back over the weekend, otherwise I’ll be back on Monday!

Sorry about the late update today, it’s been a busy day. Hey, it happens! Ryan Bousquet and Doug Frey are new today!

Three updates today because I don’t know if I’ll be around tomorrow: Brad McGinty, Joe Havasy and JP Coovert. And I have a request: if anybody out there knows a computer program that will, plainly and simply, keep a computer in perfect working order from the time that you buy it to the time that it dies a painless death of old age, please, PLEASE let me know. I’m so very tired of dealing with viruses, random shutdowns of my computer for no reason and a bazillion other small problems…

New reviews for Antar Ellis and Eleanor Davis, and Jennifer Young’s book was only $9.95, not $15 like I had guessed, so I updated that one too. A pox on Mondays!

This online store thing just keeps getting better and better. Got comics for the store today from Hans Rickheit (who everybody should at least look at, as he’s doing some of the more unique work in comics today) and Jerome Gaynor (who sent two of the best small press anthologies ever, in my humble opinion). Check ’em out, see what you think!

New stuff from Patrick Dean and Jennifer Young! Have a good weekend everybody, I’ll probably pop in at least once over the weekend for more reviews…

Well, it’s finally started to happen. I’m getting comics for the store too quick for me to review them in a timely manner. A bunch of new books from Kelli Nelson today, and if anybody has these (or any of the other blank items in the online store) and would like to review them, please, be my guest. Otherwise I’ll fill them in as time permits. New reviews for Drew Weing and Joe Sayers!

FLUKE week begins! OK, it’s Wednesday, and OK, it’s probably going to be more like a few weeks, but I think you get the point. Three good comics from Adam Aylard, Andy Hartzell and Joey Weiser looks like a good start to me. Also, as I’m particularly broke right now (what with the trip and all), I’m doing a “special offer” for the store. The next person who orders $50 worth of stuff gets a free copy of the first Rosetta anthology, as I have an extra one laying around. If I get a sudden rush of orders over $50 because of this, don’t worry, you’ll get something good free if you order before I post another update saying that this is no longer vaild. If I hear crickets chirping in the next few days, well, this offer is vaild until I say otherwise. OK? OK.

OK, new comics in the store from Matt Herzfeld and Nick Mercer, I’ll be back soon with many, many new comics!

The update for today is the other half of a flip book with Nick Abadzis, Net Result by Paul Peart-Smith.  Also, I’m heading out of town tomorrow.  I’m heading back home for a couple of days before heading down to Georgia for FLUKE, so there probably aren’t going to be any new reviews until next week, either Monday (if all goes perfectly) or, more likely, Tuesday afternoon.  The good news about all this is that when I do get back I’ll have all kinds of new comics for review.  I’ll pop in from time to time, as I get internet access (whenever that’ll be), to check up on the forums and post an update, if possible.  In the meantime, dig around the site, post on the forums (or e-mail me at whitey@opticalsloth.com) and let me know what improvements you still think are needed.  Also, if you want to buy some stuff at the online store and want to get it quickly, if you order before noonish tomorrow I’ll stop at the post office on the way out of town.  Or if you’re going to Georgia also just let me know what you want and I can bring it with me.  OK, I’ll be back soon with a pile of comics!

The update for today is the other half of a flip book with Nick Abadzis, Net Result by Paul Peart-Smith. Also, I’m heading out of town tomorrow. I’m heading back home for a couple of days before heading down to Georgia for FLUKE, so there probably aren’t going to be any new reviews until next week, either Monday (if all goes perfectly) or, more likely, Tuesday afternoon. The good news about all this is that when I do get back I’ll have all kinds of new comics for review. I’ll pop in from time to time, as I get internet access (whenever that’ll be), to check up on the forums and post an update, if possible. In the meantime, dig around the site, post on the forums (or e-mail me at whitey@opticalsloth.com) and let me know what improvements you still think are needed. Also, if you want to buy some stuff at the online store and want to get it quickly, if you order before noonish tomorrow I’ll stop at the post office on the way out of town. Or if you’re going to Georgia also just let me know what you want and I can bring it with me. OK, I’ll be back soon with a pile of comics!

No, I didn’t do seven updates today. The seven people listed below this are the reviews I did while the site was “in transit”, so they all didn’t make it here. If you went to the old site every day you probably already saw them, if you didn’t, hey, they’re probably new to you!

I can’t seem to get images to upload. The webmaster is having another busy day at work, so I’m hoping this is fixed by tonight at the latest, but I went ahead with the reviews anyway. As of 3:30pm (Eastern time) there are no pictures for the reviews of Dan Moynihan (Catching the Moon) and Trevor Alixopulos (Quagga #5), but that will be fixed ASAP. If you can’t stand the reviews without pictures, you might want to click on those two tomorrow. If you can live without images for now, click on the names and read away!

Well, mostly fixed anyway. The haphazard articles page in the main menu has been replaced by the Author Index. Check it out, you can find anybody you want through the first letter of their last name, or you could still use the search option, whcih is also in the main menu. Also, I have 5 new comics available in the store, 2 from Robin Enrico and 3 from Ryan Claytor, so check them out! I think this home page is now going to be easy to update (and keep current), which is great. I’m going to attempt a few updates tomorrow, so I apologize for the slow pace of the update the past few weeks. What can I say, I’m trying to fix stuff. OK, more tomorrow, wander around the site a bit, see what shiny new things you like.

I just reviewed the last issue (#4) of the Less Than Hero series. Also, as far as all the problems go, the webmaster (not me, the other guy) has hit a rough patch at work, but he’s going as fast as he can, so it might be a couple of days yet before everything is fixed. The (unrelated) good news is that I’m getting word from a bunch of folks that they’re going to send comics for the online store, so the selection there should increase substantially in the next few weeks. Also, I’m getting reports that finding the review is still a major pain, so here’s the easiest way that I know to get there under the current set-up: go to the search bar, type in "Jason McNamara" and click on it. Sorry, this will all be so very much easier soon…

Well, the good news is that all the articles are arranged by last name first instead of first name first… although we still need to mix some things together in this cauldron to make everything list alphabetically. Does that show off my lack of knowledge? I can live with that. The bad news is that the image uploader currently isn’t working for some reason, so my reviews are pretty much dead in the water until that’s fixed. I’m hoping for it to be done later today, or tomorrow at the latest, and when that happens I have a few reviews coming. So: the reviews will soon be listed alphabetically, until then please keep using the search bar to find what you’re looking for. Any questions or complaints, post ’em on the forum and we can all talk about them! Also, if you just desperately want to get to the full list of reviews, click on anyone’s name, then “Reviews” under their name. A bit of a pain right now, but it’ll be fixed!

Dave Kiersh was the update today, so please scroll down and check out the new update! Sorry that it’s not up here automatically yet, obviously there are still a few bugs to be worked out. Thanks for your patience and we’ll get there soon, I swear. Happy weekend!

Navigating the store can be a little pesky at the moment. Unfortunately, the products are organized by the author’s last name, currently. But as things get added, it may change.

I’ll write a search box for the store segment specifically. In the meantime, use the search link on the main menu to search for items in the store. It makes things MUCH easier. Basically, just select the “Optical Sloth Online Store” check box at the bottom of the list of checkboxes (its on by default) and you’ll be able to find what you’re specifically looking for.

Eventually I’ll get around to writing something so that we can organize everything by the Author’s last name or by the title of the comic. Until then, bear with us while we get everything up and running.

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