{"id":11550,"date":"2010-04-26T11:06:39","date_gmt":"2010-04-26T16:06:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/?p=11550"},"modified":"2010-04-04T12:10:02","modified_gmt":"2010-04-04T17:10:02","slug":"reynolds-grant-hot-cold-running-ghosts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/?p=11550","title":{"rendered":"Reynolds, Grant &#8211; Hot &#038; Cold Running Ghosts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/grantreynoldstourjournal.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Website<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/hotandcold1.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Hot &amp; Cold Running Ghosts<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I do believe that Grant has reinvented a genre.\u00c2\u00a0 Which comic genre specifically he&#8217;s reinvented I&#8217;ll leave for the surprise ending of the review, as it sure came as a shock to me after reading the comic.\u00c2\u00a0 This is the story of Grant trying to interpret his dreams, drunk-dialing a friend and getting a little too gushy with the praise, and generally trying to pull together bits of his life (if I may interpret his dreams baselessly for just a moment), or at least keep them from crumbling in his hands.\u00c2\u00a0 It&#8217;s a genuinely brilliant read, from his seamless transition from dreams to reality and back again to his notable lack of whining in a story that could have easily turned self-indulgent.\u00c2\u00a0 Really not a comic to be missed, and probably somewhere around $3.\u00c2\u00a0 And the kicker to all this?\u00c2\u00a0 It&#8217;s a diary comic.\u00c2\u00a0 Grant removed all the dates and kept it with only a few distinct themes, but this blows out of the water and idea I had about the daily diary format being too constricting.\u00c2\u00a0 Clearly there are all sorts of directions to take this genre before dismissing it out of hand&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/hotandcold2.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Website Hot &amp; Cold Running Ghosts I do believe that Grant has reinvented a genre.\u00c2\u00a0 Which comic genre specifically he&#8217;s reinvented I&#8217;ll leave for the surprise ending of the review, as it sure came as a shock to me after reading the comic.\u00c2\u00a0 This is the story of Grant trying to interpret his dreams, drunk-dialing [&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":[2224,1923],"class_list":["post-11550","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews","tag-grant-reynolds","tag-hot-cold-running-ghosts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11550","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=11550"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11550\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11558,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11550\/revisions\/11558"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}