{"id":10806,"date":"2010-04-24T13:42:51","date_gmt":"2010-04-24T18:42:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/?p=10806"},"modified":"2010-04-01T17:39:31","modified_gmt":"2010-04-01T22:39:31","slug":"martin-dale-editor-watusis-doghouse-funhouse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/?p=10806","title":{"rendered":"Martin, Dale (editor) – Watusi’s Doghouse Funhouse"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Watusi’s Doghouse Funhouse (edited by Dale Martin)
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I’m not allowed to review this one.\u00c2\u00a0 Why?\u00c2\u00a0 Because it’s not a comic!\u00c2\u00a0 It’s something completely different, and something that is meant purely for children: an activity book.\u00c2\u00a0 Remember those from being kids, where you’d fill in the mazes, do the word puzzles, check which images were exactly the same, those sorts of things?\u00c2\u00a0 That’s what this is.\u00c2\u00a0 Oh sure, there are comic stories in here by a variety of folks, but this one is really meant for the kids, and I’m far too much of a childless curmudgeon to do it justice.\u00c2\u00a0 Stories in here include a family coming up with their own endings to a movie when their DVD player craps out (by Dale Martin & Tom Cherry, and remember when VHS tapes would skip until they stopped?\u00c2\u00a0 They didn’t?\u00c2\u00a0 Oh yeah.\u00c2\u00a0 Huzzah for modern technology!), Mark Morehouse showing different snowmen, Dale & Ivan Martin with the highlight of the comic (a short piece about the cyclical nature of time travel), Drew Boynton’s tale of some kids trying to find information on Bigfoot, Bill Hook & Mike Sullivan’s Thunderdawg, and assorted short pieces.\u00c2\u00a0 If you have a kid who likes this sort of thing, you should pick this up.\u00c2\u00a0 It’ll train them at an early age to appreciate comics (and the soon-to-be-extinct concept of paper), and there really is a ton of activities for them in here.\u00c2\u00a0 For us crusty old adults who just prefer a good story, it’s probably best to move on to something else.\u00c2\u00a0 Or I suppose lightening up is an option… humbug!\u00c2\u00a0 $3.50<\/p>\n

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Website Watusi’s Doghouse Funhouse (edited by Dale Martin) I’m not allowed to review this one.\u00c2\u00a0 Why?\u00c2\u00a0 Because it’s not a comic!\u00c2\u00a0 It’s something completely different, and something that is meant purely for children: an activity book.\u00c2\u00a0 Remember those from being kids, where you’d fill in the mazes, do the word puzzles, check which images were […]<\/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":[3055,3051,3054,3053,3052,3056,2612,3050],"class_list":["post-10806","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews","tag-bill-hook","tag-dale-martin","tag-drew-boynton","tag-ivan-martin","tag-mark-morehouse","tag-mike-sullivan","tag-tom-cherry","tag-watusis-doghouse-funhouse"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10806","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=10806"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10806\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10809,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10806\/revisions\/10809"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10806"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10806"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}