Optical Sloth

New review today for Hey Cat Volume 3: The Return of the Fleas by Nacho Nova. That’s the end of cat week, at least until the next time I happen to open more than one envelope with a cat comic in it. It’s the kind of thing to make me scrap any other plans, honestly…

Sorry about the review gap, holidays followed by bronchitis are lousy on motivation. New review today for Cat #1 by Brandon Berry, as unintentional cat week begins! Hey, I opened up two envelopes and they both had cat comics in them. What am I supposed to do, ignore that obvious sign from the universe?

It’s the holiday taint week! Nobody has any motivation at all this week, but I got an advance copy of Rob Kirby’s new book Marry Me a Little and I just couldn’t resist talking about it. Could this be the last review of the year? Eh, maybe, we’ll see. Suspense!

New review today for Edie Blenkinsop’s War by Rob Jackson, which somehow fell out of the review pile and I only rediscovered today. Which is odd, as I’m always curious to see what he comes up with next. Anyway, happy holidays everybody!

New review today for Town & County #2 by Alex Nall, who makes me wonder if I could also pull off a mustache. Completely unrelated to his comic!

Well, so much for that “I’ll just write reviews during the week in real time” idea, huh? That’s what I get for making promises about reviews. New review today for The Way of the Hive by Jay Hosler, which some of you old timers may remember as Clan Apis, but in gorgeous full color this time around.

Optical Sloth behind the scenes: I’ve probably mentioned this before, but for the past few years I tend to write the reviews on the weekend, then just schedule them to post during the week. Well, this weekend was stupid busy, but I made a promise last week to review comics this week, so: live reviews! Boy oh boy is that meaningless to everybody but me. I also have no idea how many days I’ll be able to do this, and I already know that tomorrow is out. Still, new review today for So Buttons #12 by Jonathan Baylis (and friends)!

New review today for Tortilla #7 by Jaime Crespo, and I hereby solemnly swear that I’ll put out a few reviews next week to start to make up for lost time.

Sorry about yet another gap in reviews last week, but these elections are taking more and more out of me lately. Where’s a benevolent (but hand’s off) billionaire backer when I need one? Anyway, there’s a new review today for Zombie’s First Time by Brandon Lehmann.

New review today for Forget Me Not by Gabriel Howell! Quick note for anybody who has tried to email me over the last several months: unless you were very creative in your subject line, maybe send it again? I’ll be changing my email soon, but meanwhile I’m cleaning out the old one, and boy howdy is it ever overrun with spam. What could any one man do with that many ball bearing, I ask you?

Back from my work break, just in time for a holiday week. New review today for Applewood Canyon #6-8 from Brian Canini, and yes, that means that I’m reviewing some books in chunks now. Progress?

New review today for Wrestling and Mania Part Two by Andrew Neal, which concludes my brief return to the world of weekly reviews of the Meeting Comics series. That’s it for me for a week or so (depending on what happens at work), so dig through the archives for a bit, and vote!

New review today for Dodo Comics #7 by Grant Thomas, and this will almost certainly be the last week of comics reviewing until after the upcoming election. If you live in a state where you can, vote early already. And if you’re a woman who’s still biologically able to have children, or if you know anybody like that, for the love of all that’s good in the world, vote for Democrats down the line. Or if you like state mandated pregnancies forced to be carried to term, don’t vote at all and please fuck off from this website forever. Thanks bye!

New review today for It’s Oola! by Karl Christian Krumpholz, meaning that CXC week is now two weeks long. It’ll end up being longer too, before it’s all said and done. What can I say, I’m terrible at math.

New review today for Wrestling and Mania Part One by Andrew Neal, so it’s technically still reviews from the CXC show a couple of weeks back. Nope, work hasn’t swallowed me up yet!

New review today for Bird With Tits by Max Schaller! Public service announcement: regular readers of the website know that reviews tend to get a little scarce around here in the Fall of even numbered years, what with my job working in elections in Ohio and all. I’ll get some reviews in when I can, but it may be even more haphazard than usual for a few weeks. Also early voting has already started, so why don’t you do that in your area today?

New review for a returning star to the website: Caitlin Cass! I reviewed Postal Constituent: Zitkala-Sa/Gertrude Simmons Bonnin. Any errors in the order of the words or the actual title come from me alone.

It’s CXC week at the website! Which should have happened last week, but things got out of hand in real life, so here it is. New review today for Lamp Quest by James Spencer!

New review today for Mole #7 by Andrew Pilkington. One last heads up about Cartoon Crossroads Columbus, happening from October 6th through 9th. If you’re in Ohio, or near enough to drive, just take one look at that guest list and tell me it’s not worth the trip. My biggest challenge is always not to spend all my money at the Fantagraphics table, so this time around I’m going to try not to look at it at all. If you see a blond dude wandering around in (most likely) a Tortilla Comix or King Cat shirt, it’s me, so say hi! You’ll freak me right out, guaranteed.

New review today for the last of the current mini kus pile: La fleur au fusil by Pia-Melissa Laroche. You know, assuming I haven’t missed reviewing any of the mini kus books, I’m getting very close to reviewing 100 issues of the series. This is #110, and I started with #18, way back in the day. If that happens, obviously some sort of celebration is called for, but what? Hm…