{"id":10046,"date":"2010-04-23T22:21:17","date_gmt":"2010-04-24T03:21:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/?p=10046"},"modified":"2010-03-29T18:13:20","modified_gmt":"2010-03-29T23:13:20","slug":"hill-dan-the-fifty-flip-experiment-9","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/?p=10046","title":{"rendered":"Hill, Dan &#8211; The Fifty Flip Experiment #9"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fiftyflipexperiment.com\" target=\"_blank\">Website<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/fiftyflip91.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"fiftyflip91\" src=\"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/fiftyflip91.jpg\" alt=\"fiftyflip91\" width=\"326\" height=\"508\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>The Fifty Flip Experiment #9<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Damn, and this one got off to such a good start.\u00c2\u00a0 This comic starts off with a funny strip (sampled, you can make up your own minds), then a mildly funny strip about the nature of art and pretension, then things went off the rails.\u00c2\u00a0 See, if you&#8217;re going to have one long story in a comic that&#8217;s usually about short funny pieces, it really has to be able to hold your attention, and this one just went on and on and on&#8230; and even promises that it&#8217;ll be continued in the next issue!\u00c2\u00a0 Blech.\u00c2\u00a0 What&#8217;s so awful?\u00c2\u00a0 It&#8217;s really not that bad of an idea for a strip, and you can tell the theme for the cover.\u00c2\u00a0 Things start with it being a parody of an infomercial, with everybody over-excited to be drinking tears and wondering where they come from.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 Then it goes on to give rejected criers, uses for the tears and a reaction from an art snob.\u00c2\u00a0 Unless he&#8217;s planning on making this into a continuing story and somehow manages to make it funny and interesting again after running it into the ground, it&#8217;s safe to say I&#8217;m skipping #10.\u00c2\u00a0 Not that the whole issue is a wash, there are still four single page strips after the long piece, but it&#8217;s not enough to save the comic.\u00c2\u00a0 Check out some of the other issues for some genuine funny, but unless your sense of humor is entirely different from mine (that&#8217;s entirely possible), skip this one.\u00c2\u00a0 $2<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/fiftyflip92.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"fiftyflip92\" src=\"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/fiftyflip92.jpg\" alt=\"fiftyflip92\" width=\"437\" height=\"686\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Website The Fifty Flip Experiment #9 Damn, and this one got off to such a good start.\u00c2\u00a0 This comic starts off with a funny strip (sampled, you can make up your own minds), then a mildly funny strip about the nature of art and pretension, then things went off the rails.\u00c2\u00a0 See, if you&#8217;re going [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[2915,1289],"class_list":["post-10046","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews","tag-dan-hill","tag-the-fifty-flip-experiment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10046","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10046"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10046\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10049,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10046\/revisions\/10049"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10046"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10046"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10046"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}