{"id":10997,"date":"2010-04-24T17:39:26","date_gmt":"2010-04-24T22:39:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/?p=10997"},"modified":"2010-04-02T12:56:15","modified_gmt":"2010-04-02T17:56:15","slug":"miers-john-slab-comix-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/?p=10997","title":{"rendered":"Miers, John &#8211; Slab Comix #1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.johnmiers.com\/\">Website<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/images\/slab11.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" width=\"301\" height=\"426\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Slab Comix #1<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s something inherently beautiful about a comic done completely at work, using Microsoft&#8217;s Word and Paint programs and done with almost all &#8220;liberated&#8221; materials. That&#8217;s where this book came from. And there are times when that shows, when a book is crappy but it&#8217;s OK to like because it was done with so much spirit, but this book doesn&#8217;t have that problem. It&#8217;s the story of a, um, slab as he goes through his daily routine. As John says in his letter, it&#8217;s a tale of drudgery and failed romance. There were almost too many poop jokes, if that&#8217;s possible, but that&#8217;s the only mild complaint I have with the book. This is one of those where the word balloons are filled up with pictures, so no dialogue is ever actually spoken. It doesn&#8217;t matter, and honestly I can&#8217;t picture this story being told another way, so that&#8217;s a great compliment to John. This is well worth the $3 to check out. Here&#8217;s hoping he keeps that crappy job for a while so he can put out more comics! <a href=\"mailto:info@johnmiers.com\">E-mail him<\/a> for details or send money to: 66a Settles Street, London E1 1JP.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/images\/slab12.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" width=\"487\" height=\"750\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Website Slab Comix #1 There&#8217;s something inherently beautiful about a comic done completely at work, using Microsoft&#8217;s Word and Paint programs and done with almost all &#8220;liberated&#8221; materials. That&#8217;s where this book came from. And there are times when that shows, when a book is crappy but it&#8217;s OK to like because it was done [&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":[3114,1682],"class_list":["post-10997","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews","tag-john-miers","tag-slab-comix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10997","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=10997"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10997\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10998,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10997\/revisions\/10998"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10997"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10997"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10997"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}