{"id":11045,"date":"2010-04-24T18:51:00","date_gmt":"2010-04-24T23:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/?p=11045"},"modified":"2010-04-02T14:16:50","modified_gmt":"2010-04-02T19:16:50","slug":"mitchell-brian-john-just-a-man-3-with-andrew-white","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/?p=11045","title":{"rendered":"Mitchell, Brian John &#8211; Just A Man #3 (with Andrew White)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.silbermedia.com\/lostkisses\/\">Website<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/justaman31.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"justaman31\" src=\"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/justaman31.jpg\" alt=\"justaman31\" width=\"108\" height=\"126\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Just A Man #3 (with art by Andrew White)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>What the hell?\u00c2\u00a0 Sorry, us &#8220;professional&#8221; reviewers need to give you readers more to work with but&#8230; what the hell?\u00c2\u00a0 Brian has expertly flipped the motive behind our hero completely around with this issue, and he caught me completely by surprise.\u00c2\u00a0 In this issue our hero takes off towards the whorehouse, at the request of a man in town who says that his daughter is working there and he wants to get her back.\u00c2\u00a0 He makes his way to the whorehouse, finds the girl in question, and manages to grab her and head her towards the door&#8230; when his wife calls his name.\u00c2\u00a0 She&#8217;s at the whorehouse too, and she has a gun on him.\u00c2\u00a0 His reaction to this is, well, a little odd.\u00c2\u00a0 It&#8217;s my personal (and constantly changing) rule that everything after the midway point of a book is a spoiler, so I can&#8217;t say too much, but this naturally sets our hero to wondering about everything that has happened in the last couple of issues.\u00c2\u00a0 He has McTeague&#8217;s men after him (looking for revenge), men from the whorehouse after him (looking for the woman he basically kidnapped), and then he&#8217;s confronted with another moral dilemma when the woman he&#8217;s taken says that she is not the daughter of that man after all, just somebody he wants as his own personal whore.\u00c2\u00a0 This is by far the best issue of the series, and the other two were pretty damned good already.\u00c2\u00a0 It takes some talent to make a straightforward western revenge story into something else entirely, and Brian did it flawlessly.\u00c2\u00a0 Check it out, it&#8217;s a tough competition but this may end up being his best series of all.\u00c2\u00a0 $1<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/justaman32.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"justaman32\" src=\"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/justaman32.jpg\" alt=\"justaman32\" width=\"262\" height=\"142\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Website Just A Man #3 (with art by Andrew White) What the hell?\u00c2\u00a0 Sorry, us &#8220;professional&#8221; reviewers need to give you readers more to work with but&#8230; what the hell?\u00c2\u00a0 Brian has expertly flipped the motive behind our hero completely around with this issue, and he caught me completely by surprise.\u00c2\u00a0 In this issue our [&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":[3125,3124,1712],"class_list":["post-11045","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews","tag-andrew-white","tag-brian-john-mitchell","tag-just-a-man"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11045","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=11045"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11045\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11063,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11045\/revisions\/11063"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11045"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11045"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11045"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}