{"id":11438,"date":"2010-04-26T08:45:09","date_gmt":"2010-04-26T13:45:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/?p=11438"},"modified":"2010-04-03T13:26:39","modified_gmt":"2010-04-03T18:26:39","slug":"porcellino-john-king-cat-classix-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/?p=11438","title":{"rendered":"Porcellino, John &#8211; King Cat Classix #2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.king-cat.net\/\">Website<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/kingcatclassix21.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"kingcatclassix21\" src=\"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/kingcatclassix21.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"324\" height=\"506\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>King Cat Classix #2<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>If the quality of the first collection of King Cat comics was a bit spotty at times (the guy was, after all, just starting out), that problem is taken care of in this second volume.\u00c2\u00a0 It collects the best bits of #11-20 (in case you can&#8217;t read that on the cover) and even has a few stories taken from anthologies or previously unpublished, so even if you were awesome enough to collect these when they first came out you&#8217;re likely to run into something you haven&#8217;t seen.\u00c2\u00a0 Stories in this issue include whether or not mice turn into money over time, a dream of dancing with the Throwing Muses, a jam comic involving penises pulled too hard, a silent shortie about a family picnic (barely), attending an art school party that ends with John going to the bathroom and being drunk enough to see two penises (definitely the first time I&#8217;ve used &#8220;penises&#8221; twice in one run-on sentence), a fantastic center spread, a dream involving John as a detective that is impossible to describe, teaching a cat to jump from car to car, rescuing a cat from a roof, his job that he could only take for 2 1\/27 days, The Mouse getting in trouble, a giant dream cat and a bloody nose.\u00c2\u00a0 That&#8217;s the bare bones of it.\u00c2\u00a0 If it&#8217;s true that I have even the tiniest voice in the land of mini comics, somebody make this so: put these old minis back in print!\u00c2\u00a0 If Fantagraphics can put out a huge collection of comics from the 80&#8217;s, why not put all of these comics into one huge volume?\u00c2\u00a0 It&#8217;s not like you&#8217;d be hurting for material.\u00c2\u00a0 Oh well, most likely wishful thinking.\u00c2\u00a0 If you\u00c2\u00a0can find this for the love of Jehovah buy it, but you probably know that already&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/kingcatclassix22.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"kingcatclassix22\" src=\"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/kingcatclassix22.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"429\" height=\"698\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Website King Cat Classix #2 If the quality of the first collection of King Cat comics was a bit spotty at times (the guy was, after all, just starting out), that problem is taken care of in this second volume.\u00c2\u00a0 It collects the best bits of #11-20 (in case you can&#8217;t read that on the [&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":[1475,1897,1898],"class_list":["post-11438","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews","tag-john-porcellino","tag-king-cat","tag-king-cat-classix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11438","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=11438"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11438\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11449,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11438\/revisions\/11449"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}