New review for Ramona & Imogene by Erin Griffin. In case anybody was wondering, the grand total for yesterday was one 22 hour shift, and I’ll have to deal with provisional ballots until at least the end of the week. After that it’s back to normal around here, for real. And again, anybody who was WordPress skills, a lifetime 50% discount on all the mini comics I sell wouldn’t be a bad thing to have. Get ahold of me and for the cost of a little practical advice (and probably some technical work, but I’ll do all the heavy lifting) the discount is yours!
Update for 11/5/08
November 5, 2008
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Update for 10/28/08
October 28, 2008And somehow it’s been a week since the last update. Sorry, I’m up to my eyeballs at work right now. The good news is that a fair amount of comics have been coming in, meaning that I’ll have a lot to ramble about after the election. Keep ’em coming though: 5912 Slippery Rock Dr. Columbus, OH 43229. Also, if there’s anybody out there who knows WordPress thoroughly and would like a lifetime discount at the Optical Sloth store (and, seeing as how I’ve been running this thing for 7 years and counting, that will probably end up being a nice deal) e-mail me at whitey@opticalsloth.com. I’m looking to improve a few things and get everything else back up to where it was at the old site, and my expertise is puny. OK, I’ll try to get something up over the weekend, but no promises…
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Update for 10/22/08
October 22, 2008New review for Good Minnesotan #2 by Various folks, and two updates in a row, an election season record!
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Update for 10/21/08
October 21, 2008New review for Planet Named Desire #6 by Joe Marshall, also available in the store, as are several other comics from that man. Just thought I’d point that out, as I haven’t seen anything new from him in a while but the old stuff is well worth checking out.
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Update for 10/19/08
October 19, 2008No really, it’s an actual update! New reviews for Comics on Fire #1 by Paul Hack and Tuxedo Bandit #1 by Rainer Lee. The final total was 34 days worked in a row, for anybody who’s keeping score out there. I actually have the whole day off today. Does this mean the website can get back to normal? I’m cautiously optimistic, at least for the next week or so, but don’t be shocked if things are still a little slow until after the election.
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Update for 10/13/08
October 13, 2008Sorry, but if anybody wonders if I’m just lazy, I’ll provide a list of my hours of work for the last four weeks, in which I have had zero days off: 64, 66, 70, 77. Yes, that’s more each week and yes, that means I don’t have time for much of anything besides working and sleeping. Look at it this way: if all you comical types send in your funny books now, by the time I get some free time again (possibly as soon as the end of the week) I’ll be able to post everything up here in rapid succession.
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Update for 10/9/08
October 9, 2008New review for Reich #3 by Elijah Brubaker (also available in the online store) and, once again, allow me to ask all you comics folks out there for more minis. I’m not going to have a chance to hit any stores for a while yet and the “line” for reviews is tiny indeed. 5912 Slippery Rock Dr. Columbus, OH 43229 will get you on the internets in no time!
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Update for 10/7/08
October 7, 2008Sorry about all the time away from the website, but the early voting is over now (or at least the end of it that I had to deal with) so things should get back to normal around here for a few weeks… until the actual election, then expect more of the long absences. New review today for Children & God #1 by Kelly Clancy…
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Update for 10/1/08
October 1, 2008New review for Broads and Monsters by Pat Lewis, also available in the online store. You know, if anybody in Columbus wants to come down to Vets Memorial and do some early voting this week, you’re damned near guaranteed to run into me. Not that that should have any influence on your decision to vote, I’m just saying is all…
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Update for 9/29/08
September 29, 2008New review for A Last Cry For Help by Dave Kiersh, which is a collection of all kinds of his comics. And if you’re wondering why I haven’t been trying to catch up around here on the weekends, it’s because I’m working on the weekends too. I’m trying everybody, I really am. Anybody have any minis they’d like to send me for reviews? 5912 Slippery Rock Drive Columbus, OH 43202, that’s me!
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Update for 9/25/08
September 25, 2008New review for Unplugged by Derek Currant & Michael Carroll, and everybody in Ohio knows that early voting starts next Tuesday, right? I spend so many hours as that place I might as well throw out the occasional helpful public service announcement…
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Update for 9/23/08
September 23, 2008New review for Epic Tales of the Mundane #4 by Brad Dwyer and it is confirmed, the online store does work. For anybody else who orders in the near future (or ever, actually) please tell me what you think about how it all works, as I sort of had to make it up as I went along. Good points, bad points, don’t hold back.
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Update for 9/22/08
September 22, 2008New review for Burning Building Comix #4 by Jeff Zwirek, and WordPress is having a lot of trouble with me trying to mention that fact, so let’s see what happens on the third try…
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Update for 9/21/08
September 21, 2008New review for Cloud Picnic by Missy Kulik, also in the online store, and I’ll be back to reviewing the pile of comics waiting for me tomorrow. I’ll still be throwing in the occasional store review though, it’d be nice to plug up all those holes eventually…
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Update for 9/19/08
September 19, 2008New review for Pursuit by Corey Bechelli, also in the online store, as that is the theme this week, and I’m going to try to fill at least a couple more holes in the store over the weekend. For anybody new around here, I’ll tell you how this is all supposed to work. Over the course of a week, usually from Monday to Friday, I’ll try to get 4 or 5 reviews up. As I work at the local Board of Elections, February and March can be sporadic around the website (primary season) and October and November can be spotty the rest of the time, especially every four years, like, say, now. Things are getting crazy at work again, as expected, but I’ll try to keep up here as best I can. If anybody wanted to order anything from the store now is the time to do it, as I can still get to orders promptly at the moment, hence all the store reviews.
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Update for 9/17/08
September 17, 2008New review for Teen Boat #1 by John Green & Dave Roman, which is also available in the online store, as that is the theme this week, after all.
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Update for 9/15/08
September 15, 2008New review for Take-Out Comics #3 by Raina Telgemeier, as I’m taking the week to celebrate the store finally being up and running again by filling in some of the “holes”. I also spent the weekend fixing the links on the individual creator pages, meaning that you can jump right to the store item from those “now available” buttons again.
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Update for 9/12/08
September 12, 2008New review for Jam in the Band Book One by Robin Enrico, the store should be fully operational now for anybody who wants to order some comics, and in all the confusion lately I missed celebrating the 7th anniversary of the site. 7 years with a website! That makes me like 100 in internet years.
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Update for 9/10/08
September 10, 2008New review for Vampspew Volume 1 by Steve Feldman and the store doesn’t exactly work as planned yet, but if you order something I will be able to see what it is and put an order together. It’s just that the Paypal end doesn’t work in one convenient step yet…
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Update for 9/9/08
September 9, 2008New review for Skyscrapers of the Midwest #4 by Joshua Cotter and yes, I know all about the extra images in and around the update, but I can’t see them from the WordPress edit screen, and my attempts to blindly delete everything from that area hasn’t done a thing. Sorry.
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