Optical Sloth

So I was all set to review the fifth issue of Only Skin from Sean Ford, but as I was reading it I realized that a lot of little things had left my brain.  That’s the result of only reading the issues when they came out.  Instead of my usual half-assed review where I blab on about how I wished I remembered all the pertinent information to write an informed review, I’m going to wait until I make it down to Champaign (I move tomorrow), and am going to read the whole series again before committing to write a review with my full ass on Monday.  All information will be fresh, which will help.  In the meantime, that’s it until Monday, as moving is taking over my life and I don’t get internet until Sunday.  Happy weekend everybody!

New review for Milkshake Club by Mary Golding, another new mini, and that should be the norm again from now on (I think).  Here’s the schedule for the week, in case you were curious: I move on Friday (and if you happen to live in Champaign and have furniture or other items you’d like to get rid of, send me an e-mail) and get internet service on Sunday.  So probably another review or two, then things should be back to normal on Monday, then I start to get into more detail on the changes coming soon.  Hey, I’m excited about them anyway…

New review (yes, new) for Robot 13 #2 by Thomas Hall and Daniel Bradford.  I think I finally have the scanner problem figured out (thanks to the most patient computer expert/helper person on the planet), although the scans for this one are a little awkward.  Should be smooth as silk by tomorrow though.  I am moving on Friday, so if you have comics to send, hold up until next week, OK?  I’ll try to have only the most minimal of interruptions to the reviews…

I managed to find a comic that was already scanned without a review, so there is a new review for today after all!  This one is for Zoonbats #2 by Giles O’Dell, a comic that may or may not still be in print, but the guy still has a functioning website with that name, which is a hopeful sign.  I hope to have time to really dig into the new computer over the weekend and get this scanning issue worked out, otherwise there’ll be a few more of these random reviews coming.  Like that hasn’t been the case for the better part of the last few months anyway…

So I don’t have a working scanner at the moment.  There are still a few things I can ramble about, like one of the few things left unreviewed at the Optical Sloth store: Hoax #1 edited by Karl Kressbach.  If anybody has any suggestions for tomorrow, I’m all ears…

Try to contain your surprise, but the scanner doesn’t seem to be working on my new, cobbled together computer.  Shocking that everything didn’t work just fine the first time I booted it up, but there you go.  In another couple of weeks I’ll be settled in the new place and everything will be going swimmingly, and I still have high hopes that there’s a relatively easy fix for this scanner and will have reviews back up and running tomorrow.  If not, know that I am still working constantly on that secret project associated with the not-so-secret project (the comic rentals), so it’s not like I’m being a total slacker over here.

New review for another old mini, this time Get Bent #7/Unshaven Chi #3 by Ben Steckler.  Tomorrow is when I try out the scanner on my “new” computer (meaning “assembled from parts of my old computer and parts of newer machines), so there may be delays.  Of course, there’s also the possibility that it’ll start up just fine and work like a charm, in which case please ignore this message entirely.

New review for a very old mini, this time Super Growths: Strange Growths Sampler #1-6 by Jenny Zervakis.  At least this time around the artist in question has a brand new mini (the first one in 6 years!) newly available, so there’s some point to the old review…

New review for another old mini, this time There Is Nothing! by Marc Bell.  Has he been doing much in the way of comics over the last 5-10 years or so?  Let me know if you know of anything, I haven’t seen a new thing in that time…

New review for a new anthology: Gin Palace #1 edited by Rob Jackson.  I’m spending many hours a day fixing this place up, in case you think the lack of updates recently is a result of my laziness.  You won’t see any of it here until April 22nd, so you’ll have to take my word for it until then…

New review for an old mini, this time Deep Girl #2 by Ariel Bordeaux.  If you have a calendar by your desk, mark April 22nd and put an “Optical Sloth” by it.  Things around here are going to start to change on that day, barring some major calamity.  Details will be forthcoming, but yes, this does have to do with that comics rental project I keep talking about…

Sorry, I’ve been out of town looking for places to live.  The good news is that I found one and will be moving in a couple of weeks.  The bad news is that I’ll be moving soon, so there may be more days without reviews and other disruptions.  As always, I’ll try to keep that sort of thing to a minimum.  New review today for a new mini, Was That Supposed To Be Funny by Lauren Barnett.

New review for an old mini, Life of a Cartoon Artiste #1 by Colin Upton.  Sorry about the reruns lately (my term for when I review an artist again before their previous review has left the front page), but I grabbed a stack of these things before I moved and am working my way through them.  That and as I’m heading out to look at apartments I wanted to load some of these reviews up for the week, so if you have sent anything recently I’ll get right to it when I get back…

New review for another old mini, Ramadan by Tom Hart.  I still have plenty of these old minis laying around, in case you were curious, so they’ll keep appearing here until I get a pile of new minis either through the mail or at SPACE next month (last weekend of April, mark your calendars).

New review for another old mini, Jape #4 by Sean Bieri.  To everybody out there who would like their new comic reviewed: there is currently no waiting.  I’m still living out of boxes, sure, but the postal system does still work just fine and I will get your comics if you send them.  Just sayin’…

New review for another old mini, this time Narcolepsy Dreams #4 by Jaime Crespo, who actually has a working website with new comics for sale, in case you thought all these old reviews were completely pointless.  Why a review Sunday evening?  I just finished up a couple of big projects, so why not?  All background stuff, so probably not anything you guys will notice.  That work is coming later…

New review for an old mini: King Cat Classix #2 by John Porcellino.  Still looking for new comics to review, still happy to go back and read the old ones again.

New review for another old mini, this time The Wonderful Year #2 by Rebecca Taylor.  Sorry about the missed update yesterday, but I am working on random things for the rental project (like weighing comics, which will be vital once the rental project gets going), so it’s not like I’m a total slacker or anything.

New review for The Signifiers by Michael Neno, in which I’m reminded that I wish Micheal put out comics on a more regular basis, as I seem to always enjoy them.  Um, spoiler alert, and this is a brand new comic if that wasn’t completely clear.

New review for a new book: The Complete Ouija Interviews by Sarah Becan.  About time this series got the “graphic novel” treatment…