{"id":11349,"date":"2010-04-26T06:57:56","date_gmt":"2010-04-26T11:57:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/?p=11349"},"modified":"2010-04-03T12:15:34","modified_gmt":"2010-04-03T17:15:34","slug":"paszkiewicz-douglas-arsenic-lullaby-sympathy-for-the-devil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/?p=11349","title":{"rendered":"Paszkiewicz, Douglas &#8211; Arsenic Lullaby: Sympathy for the Devil"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.arseniclullabies.com\/\">Website<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/images\/arsenic1.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" width=\"295\" height=\"459\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.arseniclullabies.com\/\">Arsenic Lullaby: Apathy for the Devil<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>There are a number of things that you can do to improve a comic when you put it out in TPB form. Fix spelling errors, draw that head that you forgot the first time around, jazz things up a little bit. If you don&#8217;t do any of these things with such glaring errors, why bother to put out a book? Granted, Douglas says that things in the book might be misspelled because it is done phonetically to &#8220;add an extra dimension&#8221;. That&#8217;s ridiculous enough, but it&#8217;s OK when you at least stay in that logic. Instead all kinds of things are just missing a letter or two when that alters the meaning, and that&#8217;s just obnoxious. OK, rant about a lack of editor over. What about the book? Well, it takes a certain type to read this. I go between thinking that it&#8217;s too tacky and thinking that certain things are just hilarious. Any time the main character (if there is a main character) is a man cursed to help people get revenge who employs little zombie fetuses, well, you&#8217;re already off to a pretty odd start. I like the transitions between stories in the issues, as they just flow back and forth between stories, returning eventually. It gives it a nice sense of all being in the same place, which I&#8217;m assuming he was going for here. All in all, once you get past the stupid, stupid problems that could have been fixed with a chimp correcting this stuff, not a bad book. He probably has a step or two he has to take before he makes it to &#8220;consistently funny&#8221;, but I think he&#8217;s on his way. Take a look at these. You should be able to decide pretty quickly if this is your cup of tea or not&#8230; Past that, head on over to his <a href=\"http:\/\/www.arseniclullabies.com\/\">website<\/a>, there are even more samples there.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/images\/arsenic3.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" width=\"481\" height=\"731\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/images\/arsenic2.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" width=\"498\" height=\"726\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Website Arsenic Lullaby: Apathy for the Devil There are a number of things that you can do to improve a comic when you put it out in TPB form. Fix spelling errors, draw that head that you forgot the first time around, jazz things up a little bit. If you don&#8217;t do any of these [&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":[3184,3183],"class_list":["post-11349","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews","tag-douglas-paszkiewicz","tag-sympathy-for-the-devil"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11349","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=11349"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11349\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11353,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11349\/revisions\/11353"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}