{"id":10380,"date":"2010-04-24T04:42:26","date_gmt":"2010-04-24T09:42:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/?p=10380"},"modified":"2010-03-30T18:13:00","modified_gmt":"2010-03-30T23:13:00","slug":"kapolczynski-matt-marbled-up-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/?p=10380","title":{"rendered":"Kapolczynski, Matt &#8211; Marbled Up #1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/people\/Matt-Kapolczynski\/100000065698753\" target=\"_blank\">Website<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/images\/marbledup11.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" width=\"477\" height=\"605\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Marbled Up #1<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Ah, a local (central Illinois) boy. There aren&#8217;t too many of these around here. Something about the water that prevents people from doing quality comics, I don&#8217;t know the real reason. Anyway, this is a collection of stories, and it&#8217;s pretty good. There are times when he gets a bit preachy and it borders on the cliche, but overall the book keeps up a pretty good pace and the parts that are supposed to be funny actually are. Lots of frantic, anime-style stories with little punctuation and constant action, and a few introspective stories thrown in as well. It&#8217;s not all perfect, but most of it works and it&#8217;s worth a look. He seems to have a command of the English language as well. I might have seen one spelling error and that was it. <a href=\"mailto:epicpress@hotmail.com\">E-mail the guy<\/a> to see if he&#8217;s done anything else (I should also mention that this was his first comic, so he can only get better) or just send him a couple of bucks at: 145 N. Park Ave. Lombard, IL 60148. Try the e-mail first though, this book is a couple of years old and he might have moved&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/images\/marbledup12.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" width=\"467\" height=\"598\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Website\u00c2\u00a0 Marbled Up #1 Ah, a local (central Illinois) boy. There aren&#8217;t too many of these around here. Something about the water that prevents people from doing quality comics, I don&#8217;t know the real reason. Anyway, this is a collection of stories, and it&#8217;s pretty good. There are times when he gets a bit preachy [&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":[1396,2981],"class_list":["post-10380","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews","tag-marbled-up","tag-matt-kapolczynski"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10380","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=10380"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10380\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10381,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10380\/revisions\/10381"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}