{"id":10965,"date":"2010-04-24T17:03:37","date_gmt":"2010-04-24T22:03:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/?p=10965"},"modified":"2010-04-02T12:35:24","modified_gmt":"2010-04-02T17:35:24","slug":"menjivar-josue-cicada","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/?p=10965","title":{"rendered":"Menjivar, Josue &#8211; Cicada"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.freshbrewedillustration.com\/\">Website<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/images\/cicada1.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" width=\"255\" height=\"369\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/189183021X\/xeroxarmy-20\">Cicada<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Everyone, please read my review of Broken Fender before you read this. Trust me, OK? Done? Now you know how much I was looking forward to this one. I&#8217;m still going to get the other Broken Fender stuff he&#8217;s done, and I&#8217;ll still pick up anything else I see from him because I think that he has truly great things in him. The problem is that he didn&#8217;t come anywhere near reaching those great things with this one. For one thing, a book that&#8217;s over 100 pages should take you longer than 10 minutes to read, unless maybe you&#8217;re James Kochalka. I still like his loose drawing style, don&#8217;t get me wrong, and I know that the main character was tortured. It was just one of many things that didn&#8217;t ring all that true for me and, as always, who the hell am I anyway? What other problems did I have? Most of the major plot points didn&#8217;t seem genuine, or they seemed like cliches. I won&#8217;t say any more because I don&#8217;t want to ruin it for anybody who might like it. All I can do is reiterate that I was <em>really <\/em>looking forward to this and I was <em>really <\/em>disappointed. Make up your own minds. And buy Broken Fender, for the love of Christ, and wonder with me why this wasn&#8217;t as good as that.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/images\/cicada2.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" width=\"403\" height=\"617\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Website Cicada Everyone, please read my review of Broken Fender before you read this. Trust me, OK? Done? Now you know how much I was looking forward to this one. I&#8217;m still going to get the other Broken Fender stuff he&#8217;s done, and I&#8217;ll still pick up anything else I see from him because I [&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":[1667,3109],"class_list":["post-10965","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews","tag-cicada","tag-josue-menjivar"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10965","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=10965"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10965\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10967,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10965\/revisions\/10967"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10965"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10965"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10965"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}