{"id":10123,"date":"2010-04-23T23:36:35","date_gmt":"2010-04-24T04:36:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/?p=10123"},"modified":"2010-03-29T19:47:48","modified_gmt":"2010-03-30T00:47:48","slug":"hornschemeier-paul-forlorn-funnies-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/?p=10123","title":{"rendered":"Hornschemeier, Paul &#8211; Forlorn Funnies #1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/newsandheadlice.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Website<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/images\/forlorn1.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" width=\"291\" height=\"399\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.forlornfunnies.com\/\">Forlorn Funnies #1<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Sorry, but apparently all color scans just suck. That aside, it&#8217;s a new series for the wonderful (and remarkably prolific, considering how detailed all of his comics are) Paul Hornschemeier! He&#8217;s probably sick to death of being compared to Chris Ware by now, but that&#8217;s the best I can give you for a quick comparison. Past that, he&#8217;s pretty much unique. This book is about a bunch of different people and televisions characters and some of their goings-on, I guess. Some of them are real and some of them aren&#8217;t, but their stories all flow together pretty seamlessly, even if the segues seemed almost nonexistent at times. I guess I&#8217;m just spoiled on segues from watching Mr. Show over and over&#8230; Anyway, I think this proves once again that he knows what he&#8217;s doing and that he&#8217;s an exciting voice to watch. My only advice to him would be to make sure that people can read some of those really tiny panels, unless that&#8217;s the effect he&#8217;s going for. Past that, his art is flawless, his writing is witty and inventive, and I&#8217;m always fascinated to see where he&#8217;s going next. Check it out before he&#8217;s all rich and famous and decides, like the rest of the famous comics creators, that there&#8217;s no reason to put out new books on a regular basis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Website Forlorn Funnies #1 Sorry, but apparently all color scans just suck. That aside, it&#8217;s a new series for the wonderful (and remarkably prolific, considering how detailed all of his comics are) Paul Hornschemeier! He&#8217;s probably sick to death of being compared to Chris Ware by now, but that&#8217;s the best I can give you [&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":[1303,2925],"class_list":["post-10123","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews","tag-forlorn-funnies","tag-paul-hornschemeier"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10123","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=10123"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10123\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10131,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10123\/revisions\/10131"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}