{"id":11213,"date":"2010-04-24T22:24:04","date_gmt":"2010-04-25T03:24:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/?p=11213"},"modified":"2010-04-02T15:39:56","modified_gmt":"2010-04-02T20:39:56","slug":"neuman-jason-cyril-in-the-false-lands","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/?p=11213","title":{"rendered":"Neuman, Jason – Cyril in the False Lands"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Cyril in the False Lands<\/strong><\/p>\n

It always makes me happy to discover someone who has a ready-made graphic novel just sitting out there, unpublished.\u00c2\u00a0 Of course, if also makes me happy when I found out about somebody when they do their very first comic and it’s amazing.\u00c2\u00a0 I guess I’m trying to say that I like comics, which is obvious by my running my website, which makes this whole intro pointless.\u00c2\u00a0 That, as they say, is why they pay me the big bucks.\u00c2\u00a0 The point is that Jason has a whole pile of minis of the adventures of Cyril and, judging from the quality of this issue, should think about putting them all together and putting them out there, if financially possible.\u00c2\u00a0 This is the continuing story of Cyril, who is a dead young boy wandering around the afterlife, trying to figure out what is happening to him and what is going on.\u00c2\u00a0 That’s the impression I get anyway; it’s clear that a lot has gone on before this issue.\u00c2\u00a0 Here’s the recap of the previous issue, you can know as much as I do: “Cyril came across a group of sperm ghosts that refused to believe that he wasn’t one of them.\u00c2\u00a0 After being chased by the sperm, the Ghost King came to Cyril’s rescue and gives Cyril vague hints about his hidden destiny.”\u00c2\u00a0 He does kind of look like a sperm ghost, doesn’t he?\u00c2\u00a0 Anyway, in this issue Cyril comes across the memories of a man with a dead family (or are they his memories?), almost gets eaten by a creature with an enticing diamond antennae, and is eventually arrested for “impersonating the dark master”.\u00c2\u00a0 While in prison he meets a professor who specializes in all the life forms that come to that land, and begins to learn a bit more about himself before he’s taken away to meet the dark master.\u00c2\u00a0 I won’t ruin the ending confrontation just in case you are able to find a copy of this (it came out in 2003 and I don’t see this specifically on his website), but it, along with the rest of the comic, did make me want to see what happens next.\u00c2\u00a0 And before this issue, which makes this a success.\u00c2\u00a0 I love how there are no panels, just full page spreads, as it really contributes to the feeling that he’s lost in an overwhelming world.\u00c2\u00a0 The art seems simple enough, but there’s a wide range of odd characters floating around, most seemingly with their own tasks and motivations.\u00c2\u00a0 It’s worth checking out if you can find it, if not there are other chapters in this story on his website.\u00c2\u00a0 No price, but due to the thickness I’ll guess $3.\u00c2\u00a0 Yes, I’m guessing the price of a mini based on heft…<\/p>\n

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Website Cyril in the False Lands It always makes me happy to discover someone who has a ready-made graphic novel just sitting out there, unpublished.\u00c2\u00a0 Of course, if also makes me happy when I found out about somebody when they do their very first comic and it’s amazing.\u00c2\u00a0 I guess I’m trying to say that […]<\/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":[1781,3163,3164],"class_list":["post-11213","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews","tag-cyril-in-the-false-lands","tag-jason-neuman","tag-neumie"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11213","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=11213"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11213\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11216,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11213\/revisions\/11216"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}