{"id":11534,"date":"2010-04-26T10:48:09","date_gmt":"2010-04-26T15:48:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/?p=11534"},"modified":"2010-04-04T11:58:56","modified_gmt":"2010-04-04T16:58:56","slug":"rehagen-amanda-lovely-ugly-cruel-world-9","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/?p=11534","title":{"rendered":"Rehagen, Amanda &#8211; Lovely Ugly Cruel World #9"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lunar-circuitry.net\/\" target=\"_blank\">Website<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/lovelyugly91.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"lovelyugly91\" src=\"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/lovelyugly91.jpg\" alt=\"lovelyugly91\" width=\"415\" height=\"509\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Lovely Ugly Cruel World #9<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Well, if I was hoping to nail down an opinion on Amanda&#8217;s comical prowess with this issue, it&#8217;ll have to wait until I find another actual comic from her.\u00c2\u00a0 This issue is mostly a text story with bits of comic thrown in, as the &#8220;relationship&#8221; between Amelia and Francis is fully explored.\u00c2\u00a0 The issue alternates between Amelia&#8217;s take (which is most of the issue) and a small bit where Francis discusses Amelia briefly with a couple of friends.\u00c2\u00a0 It&#8217;s mostly about reading between the lines, as neither actually comes out and admits liking the other, but there&#8217;s plenty to dig into in this issue.\u00c2\u00a0 I like my comics with a bit more, you know, comics in them, but it&#8217;s a fine line, and it&#8217;s clear that Amanda was trying something a little different this time around, which pretty much always gets a round of applause from me.\u00c2\u00a0 The only part I didn&#8217;t like was the extended dialogue about being goth versus not being goth, and that&#8217;s mostly because I&#8217;m getting older all the time and that whole argument is utterly uninteresting to me.\u00c2\u00a0 Overall it&#8217;s another solid issue though, with what appears to be something dangerously close to a happy ending.\u00c2\u00a0 Worth checking out, especially if the &#8220;goth or not&#8221; discussion means more to you than it does to me.\u00c2\u00a0 $2<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/lovelyugly92.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"lovelyugly92\" src=\"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/lovelyugly92.jpg\" alt=\"lovelyugly92\" width=\"528\" height=\"652\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Website Lovely Ugly Cruel World #9 Well, if I was hoping to nail down an opinion on Amanda&#8217;s comical prowess with this issue, it&#8217;ll have to wait until I find another actual comic from her.\u00c2\u00a0 This issue is mostly a text story with bits of comic thrown in, as the &#8220;relationship&#8221; between Amelia and Francis [&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":[3213,1915],"class_list":["post-11534","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews","tag-amanda-rehagen","tag-lovely-ugly-cruel-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11534","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=11534"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11534\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11536,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11534\/revisions\/11536"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}