{"id":11090,"date":"2010-04-24T19:54:40","date_gmt":"2010-04-25T00:54:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/?p=11090"},"modified":"2010-04-02T14:41:14","modified_gmt":"2010-04-02T19:41:14","slug":"moorman-ed-choy-comic-strip-til-nude","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/?p=11090","title":{"rendered":"Moorman, Ed Choy &#8211; Comic Strip &#8217;til Nude"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.edsdeadbody.com\" target=\"_blank\">Website<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/comicstriptilnude1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"comicstriptilnude1\" src=\"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/comicstriptilnude1.jpg\" alt=\"comicstriptilnude1\" width=\"510\" height=\"615\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Comic Strip &#8217;til Nude<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>See, I knew that the four panel comic strip format could be done well.\u00c2\u00a0 Granted, this isn&#8217;t a perfect book, but it does help show people stuck with the idea that a punchline is required that there are actually other ways to go.\u00c2\u00a0 This is a smallish collection of daily strips by Ed, which were apparently done on his website first.\u00c2\u00a0 His website has a whole pile of comics, just so you know, some like these and some longer stories.\u00c2\u00a0 For any readers (if they exist) who follow this site every day, Ed is also a contributor to the Good Minnesotan anthologies.\u00c2\u00a0 So now that the trivia is out of the way, how about them comics?\u00c2\u00a0 A lot of the strips are interpretive and either wordless or contain only a few words, leaving all sorts of room for interpretation.\u00c2\u00a0 Themes that are easier to nail down include his constant thought, a mean turtle, begging to get back together, Stevie Wonder as a child, bravery, icebergs, dry-humping, and OCD.\u00c2\u00a0 Chances are I got at least one of those wrong too, but that&#8217;s a risk of the bidness, I suppose.\u00c2\u00a0 Whole strips didn&#8217;t do a thing for me, frankly, but I was so happy to see a richness of four panel strips for once that it was easily ignored.\u00c2\u00a0 Sizes vary, there are no recognizable characters from strip to strip, and even though there is the occasional punchline, it&#8217;s clearly not required in Ed&#8217;s head (if I can put on my mind reading hat for a moment), so kudos to him for that.\u00c2\u00a0 Recommended if you&#8217;re as big of a dork as I am about that sort of thing, or if you don&#8217;t mind spending a buck for a pretty solid collection of strips.\u00c2\u00a0 $1<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/comicstriptilnude2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"comicstriptilnude2\" src=\"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/comicstriptilnude2.jpg\" alt=\"comicstriptilnude2\" width=\"609\" height=\"702\" 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