Optical Sloth

New review today for Night Shift by Various Artists (mostly from Washington, edited by Kelly Froh). Am I going to mention the ongoing 25th anniversary celebration/fundraiser for me getting to SPX after all of the reviews this month? Sadly, the answer is “probably.” So scroll down a bit to donate, if you’re so inclined and financially able!

New review today for Eyeland #12 by Nick Forker! Also my 25th anniversary “celebration” is going on all month, so if you’re at all interested in helping me celebrate by making it possible for me to buy more comics at SPX this year, scroll down a bit and hit that fundraiser.

So way, WAY back in the day, at roughly the start of August in 2001, I started Optical Sloth. I even wrote 100 reviews before I posted the website online just so it would never look like a blank mess, and look at it now! It’s more of a… severely cluttered mess. Anyway, I had various thoughts for how to celebrate this milestone, but at the end of the day I’ll stay with the general feel of the website and keep it simple: I’d like to go to SPX on September 12 and 13th next month, but I always end up having to pass up a whole lot of comics because I can’t afford everything. But hey, what if I COULD practically afford everything this year? That’s right, I’m starting a fundraiser. If it ends up getting little or no money, well hey, people are broke all over, no hard feelings, and I’ll just buy a bunch of stuff from Spit and a Half or another online comics shop. But if it actually makes it into the several hundreds of dollars? Well, all of those dollars will be spent on comics at SPX. If you’ve been a regular over the years thanks for reading, and if you pop in every half a decade or so just to say “wow, you’re STILL writing comics reviews?” then thank you too. Here’s the link to the fundraiser!

New review today for Everybody Dies! by Kelly Froh. You know, it’s a big anniversary for this website, and I’ve been thinking about what to do about it. By the end of the week (or maybe next week, let’s be honest) I’ll be announcing something or other. Vague teaser!

New review today for Pixie Lice by Amanda Vahamaki. Who also did a mini kus comic that I enjoyed thoroughly over a decade ago, which is not something I remembered until I searched my own website for her name. The process of this website replacing my own brain is almost complete…

New review today for How I Leave You by Sydney Heifler. Sorry about the week off, but I’m in anther one of those constant states of having very few comics on hand to review. I’ll buy more soon, or if you have a new comic, this is also another one of those cases where there will be very little wait for a review of a comic that makes it to my mailbox…

New review today for Ukestadli by Cole Pauls, and if I’d ever figured out how to use umlauts and that various symbols that can go over letters that title would look much different.

New review today for Random Short Stories by a Future Bestseller by Brian Canini, and could it be? Am I actually caught up with his comics? I’m just going to assume that he’s fallen behind in posting new books in his online store…

New review today for Woodrow Comics #2 by Chris Auman, in which things take a turn and I try to discover the workings of my own brain. Also there’s a comic review in there somewhere.

New review today for Uncle Andy’s BLT Baby by A.T. Pratt and no, I can confirm that this baby does not know how to make a BLT sandwich.

New review today for A Self-Defense Study Guide for Trans Women which, considering the terrible Supreme Court decisions, feels important. It’s not like they’re going to help anybody…

New review today for In the City Part Five, the finale of the series by Karl Christian Krumpholz. Based on past reviews, who can guess what I thought of it?

New review today for I, Candy by Ruby Carter, and it looks like this is a “comics that came in the mail” review week. That’s because those suckers get top priority, just in case you have any new comics coming out that you’d like me, in my own l’il way, to help bring before the eyeballs of the comics community (who read this website).

New review today for Bury Me Already, the new graphic novel by Julia Wertz. Which also prompted me to clean up the random characters from some of her old reviews, because that’s how long I’ve been reviewing her stuff here.

New review today for Unrest by Jurijs Tatarkins. No, I’m not completely sure how to pronounce that first name either.

New review today for Dirt #3 by Ethan Best, the first (so far) of the Columbus comics with an easy way to buy it online. Low bar – cleared!

New review today for The Undad: Photographic Memory by Stu Rase. Does that mean that I’m making this week a theme week for the Laughing Ogre comics I bought on my recent trip? No! But that’s a reasonable guess, so don’t feel bad about thinking that way.

Sneaking in a late review on a Friday, here’s a new one for Later Alligator by Aidan O’Doherty!

I went out of town for a few days to catch the Comedy Bang! Bang! tour (go see them if they’re coming to your area, it was a fantastic show), but I still have time to put up a review or two before the week is done. New review today for Other by Apollo Baltazar!

Hey, my comics from Partners and Sons arrived! And if you’re thinking that I picked this one to review first purely because of the title, well, you wouldn’t be wrong. New review today for Unicorn Fight Squad #1 by Christine Larsen!