{"id":11546,"date":"2010-04-26T11:03:49","date_gmt":"2010-04-26T16:03:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/?p=11546"},"modified":"2010-04-04T12:06:21","modified_gmt":"2010-04-04T17:06:21","slug":"reklaw-jesse-couch-tag-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/?p=11546","title":{"rendered":"Reklaw, Jesse – Couch Tag #2"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Couch Tag #2<\/strong><\/p>\n

I’m stunned.\u00c2\u00a0 Jesse Reklaw really didn’t have his own page on this site until mid 2009?\u00c2\u00a0 He’s on at least three other pages in anthologies, but no minis of his own.\u00c2\u00a0 Well, consider that fixed.\u00c2\u00a0 Also, before I even get to the comic, I should point out that he sells all sorts of minis at his website from a variety of people, and at a casual glance it looks like some of the best folks out there.\u00c2\u00a0 Get on over there and give those people some money.\u00c2\u00a0 So, since I ‘ve read his stuff in various places over the years, how does it hold up as one basic story in his own mini?\u00c2\u00a0 Really freaking well.\u00c2\u00a0 This is the story of 13 cats that either Jesse owned or were in his family from the time he was a small child to more or less modern day.\u00c2\u00a0 If you’re a cat person (as I suppose I am), this is already a thing of beauty, as he tells the story of birth to death for these cats with some obvious emotion… and other times he’s more than a little bit detached.\u00c2\u00a0 Which makes sense, he was always on the move as a kid and cats came and went with regularity.\u00c2\u00a0 The beautiful thing about this mini, outside of the cats, is how he manages to work in some powerful personal history.\u00c2\u00a0 His rocky relationship with his father, playing with the cats with his sister (and watching her drift away from him as she got older), even the time of his life when he went back and forth between living with his mother and his father.\u00c2\u00a0 What I’m trying to say is that it succeeds on every level.\u00c2\u00a0 He tells stories of sad kittens that never manage to grow up, of old tomcats that hang around a bit too much, of extreme acts of kindness and a few acts of cruelty, as he was essentially a kid on his own a lot of the time.\u00c2\u00a0 Everybody out there probably already knows all about Jesse, but if you don’t this would be an excellent place to start.\u00c2\u00a0 Let’s see if I can’t get a few more of these minis up by the end of the year to make up for lost time…\u00c2\u00a0 $2<\/p>\n

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Website Couch Tag #2 I’m stunned.\u00c2\u00a0 Jesse Reklaw really didn’t have his own page on this site until mid 2009?\u00c2\u00a0 He’s on at least three other pages in anthologies, but no minis of his own.\u00c2\u00a0 Well, consider that fixed.\u00c2\u00a0 Also, before I even get to the comic, I should point out that he sells all […]<\/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":[1920,2637],"class_list":["post-11546","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews","tag-couch-tag","tag-jesse-reklaw"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11546","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=11546"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11546\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11549,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11546\/revisions\/11549"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11546"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11546"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}