{"id":10260,"date":"2010-04-24T02:15:44","date_gmt":"2010-04-24T07:15:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/?p=10260"},"modified":"2010-03-30T12:48:22","modified_gmt":"2010-03-30T17:48:22","slug":"jackson-ed-decaff-blues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/?p=10260","title":{"rendered":"Jackson, Ed – Decaff Blues"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Decaff Blues #2<\/strong><\/p>\n

Right at the top of my list for things not to do with your mini comic would be to misspell the title.\u00c2\u00a0 Granted, “decaf” is an abbreviation so I suppose you can mess it up a little bit, but it’s also commonly used and it’s hard not to know how to spell it.\u00c2\u00a0 It just gets the comic off on the wrong foot and it’s so very easily avoided.\u00c2\u00a0 Anyway, this is the story of the lead character trying to get into town for a job interview.\u00c2\u00a0 He takes the bus and deals with what everybody deals with while trying to get anywhere on the bus: stopping to pick up a handicapped woman (and the invariable asshole who wonders why they have to stop to pick her up at all), being picked up late, offending other riders, trying to reason with a bus clerk, being hassled by people trying to sell you (obviously stolen) goods, and getting cheated at three card monty.\u00c2\u00a0 All of this leads to our hero finally getting to his job interview very late, and I don’t think it’s spoiling anything to tell you that employer’s don’t care what your excuse is if you’re late to a job interview, they’re not going to hire you.\u00c2\u00a0 It’s a fun story, but I have to point out again how obnoxious all the unerased pencil lines are.\u00c2\u00a0 It makes everything look rushed, and the fact that the pages are poorly centered doesn’t help at all.\u00c2\u00a0 At least he used staples this time, although that just has the effect of occasionally chopping off dialogue.\u00c2\u00a0 See that crease at the bottom right of the cover scan?\u00c2\u00a0 That wasn’t from my scanner.\u00c2\u00a0 There are simple fixes to all of these problems, that’s why I continue to complain about them.\u00c2\u00a0 I read it and enjoyed it, but I run a website about this stuff.\u00c2\u00a0 Most people seeing this is a shop would probably glance at it and move onto something that looked more professional.\u00c2\u00a0 Yes, I am aware of the fact that I’m looking for professionalism in mini comics.\u00c2\u00a0 Not really, just a command of the basics and the ability to make a good story look good on the shelf.\u00c2\u00a0 <angry old man rant over>\u00c2\u00a0 $1<\/p>\n

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E-mail Decaff Blues #2 Right at the top of my list for things not to do with your mini comic would be to misspell the title.\u00c2\u00a0 Granted, “decaf” is an abbreviation so I suppose you can mess it up a little bit, but it’s also commonly used and it’s hard not to know how to […]<\/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":[1341,2948],"class_list":["post-10260","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews","tag-decaff-blues","tag-ed-jackson"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10260","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=10260"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10260\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10263,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10260\/revisions\/10263"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}