{"id":11894,"date":"2010-04-26T18:33:26","date_gmt":"2010-04-26T23:33:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/?p=11894"},"modified":"2010-04-04T17:34:03","modified_gmt":"2010-04-04T22:34:03","slug":"sobel-marc-starfish","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/?p=11894","title":{"rendered":"Sobel, Marc &#8211; Starfish"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.unattendedbaggage.blogspot.com\" target=\"_blank\">Website<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/images\/starfish11.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"353\" height=\"558\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Starfish<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I can&#8217;t find any indication on this issue that this is anything other than a stand-alone story, although I believe it is technically illegal to end a story like they did and then never follow up on it. Looking at the cover, you can probably tell that this story is about a post-apocalyptic world. Yes, that is often a cliche and a sign that the story is going to be completely predictable, but that&#8217;s not the case here. Seven anorexic patients are sent to an underwater lab for treatment, along with a doctor and some staff, when a nuclear bomb hits their city. They realize that they have to stay underwater for at least a year, but discover that their food supply will only last them less than half that time. So, the doctor comes up with an experimental drug called Starfish, and I&#8217;m not going to give anything else away. It was<em> <\/em>an interesting concept, but it seemed more than a little bit condensed at 12 pages, especially if this is all there is to the story. Leigh Gallagher is apparently an artist on a Vertigo title called &#8220;The Witching&#8221; and the artwork here is pretty incredible. It&#8217;s $1.50, you can check out the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.autopsypress.com\/\">website<\/a> or send an <a href=\"mailto:autopsypress@hotmail.com\">e-mail<\/a>, whatever floats your boat.<\/p>\n<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/images\/starfish12.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"524\" height=\"779\" \/><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Website Starfish I can&#8217;t find any indication on this issue that this is anything other than a stand-alone story, although I believe it is technically illegal to end a story like they did and then never follow up on it. Looking at the cover, you can probably tell that this story is about a post-apocalyptic [&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":[3275,3274,2091],"class_list":["post-11894","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews","tag-leigh-gallagher","tag-marc-sobel","tag-starfish"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11894","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=11894"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11894\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11896,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11894\/revisions\/11896"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11894"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11894"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11894"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}