{"id":11218,"date":"2010-04-24T22:30:44","date_gmt":"2010-04-25T03:30:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/?p=11218"},"modified":"2010-04-02T15:43:36","modified_gmt":"2010-04-02T20:43:36","slug":"nichols-l-jumbly-junkery-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/?p=11218","title":{"rendered":"Nichols, L. &#8211; Jumbly Junkery #5"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dirtbetweenmytoes.com\" target=\"_blank\">Website<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/jumbly51.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Jumbly Junkery #5<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>L. adds a few longer pieces this time around, and I think she may be onto something.\u00c2\u00a0 Granted, I already thought #4 was fantastic, but it&#8217;s always nice to see something completely different from an artist and still have it be fantastic.\u00c2\u00a0 Shows range, don&#8217;t you know.\u00c2\u00a0 There are still one page stories in here, about things like being gassy, public urination, the guard cat, and the daily grind of working.\u00c2\u00a0 New to this issue are brief snippets about L.&#8217;s new love interest (or at least her character in the comic), adorable as they&#8217;re only about this new person sleeping.\u00c2\u00a0 The longer pieces are what shines in here though, especially the biggest one in the bunch, about what to do when a person (in this case, a Muslim) overhears a stranger (in this case, an asshole) making racist comments to you.\u00c2\u00a0 Do you go go out of your way to tell the asshole off?\u00c2\u00a0 Do you, alternately, go out of your way to tell the Muslim that you don&#8217;t agree with the asshole?\u00c2\u00a0 Other longer stories deal with the dangers of watching tv, where women are at today, feminism in theory versus reality, a quiet piece of observation, and the persistence of some men who yell at attractive women as they walk by.\u00c2\u00a0 Oh, and in case anybody is wondering, it&#8217;s just a coincidence that both of the sample pages are entitled &#8220;The Sad Truth&#8221;, it&#8217;s not like that&#8217;s a constant theme of her comics or anything.\u00c2\u00a0 just felt compelled to point that out.\u00c2\u00a0 Great stuff again, if the last issue was $5 I&#8217;d say this one is the same.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/jumbly521.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Website Jumbly Junkery #5 L. adds a few longer pieces this time around, and I think she may be onto something.\u00c2\u00a0 Granted, I already thought #4 was fantastic, but it&#8217;s always nice to see something completely different from an artist and still have it be fantastic.\u00c2\u00a0 Shows range, don&#8217;t you know.\u00c2\u00a0 There are still one [&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":[1785,2840],"class_list":["post-11218","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews","tag-jumbly-junkery","tag-l-nichols"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11218","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=11218"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11218\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11221,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11218\/revisions\/11221"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}