{"id":11879,"date":"2010-04-26T18:12:50","date_gmt":"2010-04-26T23:12:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/?p=11879"},"modified":"2010-04-04T17:28:10","modified_gmt":"2010-04-04T22:28:10","slug":"smith-shannon-shannon-smith-is-addicted-to-distraction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/?p=11879","title":{"rendered":"Smith, Shannon – Shannon Smith is Addicted to Distraction"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Generally speaking I’m against throwing your own name in your comic title, but if you’re going to go all the way like Shannon did and also picture yourself bursting through the cover, I say more power to the man.\u00c2\u00a0 This is a collection of odds and ends, so naturally some pieces are going to better than others.\u00c2\u00a0 Things start off slow with a baffling story of a man who runs into an all-powerful Jimmy Hendrix and gets taken to heaven with a bunch of naked ladies who preach nothing but love.\u00c2\u00a0 Oddly, the guy can’t wait to get out of there, but seems to have gotten something from the whole experience.\u00c2\u00a0 Then there a few one page autobio pieces, at least a couple of which I’ve already seen in his other minis, but the piece sampled below was new to me and nicely reflects the struggle to ever find a copy of The Comic’s Journal.\u00c2\u00a0 The heart of the book is up next, and 24 hour comics folk take note: Shannon has blasted you all out of the water.\u00c2\u00a0 He decided to do a one page comic every hour of Super Bowl Sunday, starting at 8am and ending around midnight.\u00c2\u00a0 It’s especially impressive because the guy is a Steeler’s fan and he still took time out of the day to make a comic.\u00c2\u00a0 Granted, the art is about as simple as you can get, and I got a lot more out of reading this hourly strip that I just about ever have by reading most daily diary comics.\u00c2\u00a0 The hourly format really gave him time to dig into the small details.\u00c2\u00a0 There’s waking up, dealing with a nagging headache, cleaning up cat puke, picking up toys for his kids, making unhealthy food for the big day, playing with toys with his kids, and finally watching the game.\u00c2\u00a0 If that sounds like too much detail for you, you’re clearly not a fan of autobio.\u00c2\u00a0 You can’t get much more “day in the life” than this.\u00c2\u00a0 Finally there’s a pile of sketches in the back of the comic, mostly stuff he’s sent to people who’ve mailed in over the years.\u00c2\u00a0 I particularly enjoyed Ant Man fighting an ant over a twinkie, but maybe Wonder Woman using her lasso the make the Invisible confess her true love would be more your thing.\u00c2\u00a0 It’s a pretty nice pile of comic any way you look at it, and well worth checking out.\u00c2\u00a0 It’s $4, and if that’s too rich for your blood at the moment there are always all the cheap, cheap minis listed below this to convince you.\u00c2\u00a0 $4<\/p>\n

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Website Shannon Smith is Addicted to Distraction Generally speaking I’m against throwing your own name in your comic title, but if you’re going to go all the way like Shannon did and also picture yourself bursting through the cover, I say more power to the man.\u00c2\u00a0 This is a collection of odds and ends, so […]<\/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":[3272,2084],"class_list":["post-11879","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews","tag-shannon-smith","tag-shannon-smith-is-addicted-to-distraction"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11879","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=11879"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11879\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11884,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11879\/revisions\/11884"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11879"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11879"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11879"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}