{"id":11940,"date":"2010-04-26T19:33:36","date_gmt":"2010-04-27T00:33:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/?p=11940"},"modified":"2010-04-05T12:00:24","modified_gmt":"2010-04-05T17:00:24","slug":"stanton-james-the-herbivores-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/?p=11940","title":{"rendered":"Stanton, James &#8211; The Herbivores #2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gnartoons.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Website<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/herbivores21.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"herbivores21\" src=\"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/herbivores21.jpg\" alt=\"herbivores21\" width=\"326\" height=\"509\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>The Herbivores #2<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>James does an excellent job with some facts at the start of this issue, putting up some figures that everybody should know.\u00c2\u00a0 He lists the number of deaths each year from smoking, drinking (even leaving out all the drunk driving deaths), overdoses from illicit drugs, and ends with the number of deaths each year from marijuana usage: 0.\u00c2\u00a0 It&#8217;s really no wonder this country is more or less bankrupt when we waste so much money on something so stupid.\u00c2\u00a0 This issue is an attempt to get to know the characters a little better, as it&#8217;s all time spent making their way to the mysterious temple and talking about the dinosaur society.\u00c2\u00a0 I still can&#8217;t tell the members of the band apart, even if they do have different hats and\/or hair, because they&#8217;re essentially all the same person.\u00c2\u00a0 Er, dinosaur.\u00c2\u00a0 The flashback in this issue also shows the results of their previous trip to this temple, the creature that almost came out of it and what has happened every time they&#8217;re tried to send somebody back in.\u00c2\u00a0 One other thing I&#8217;ve missed reading the first two issues: why exactly are they going to this place, as it&#8217;s so clearly deadly?\u00c2\u00a0 Ah well, maybe the third issue will clear that up.\u00c2\u00a0 James also has a backup story this time around with a robot and a computer talking like drunken, robotic teenagers.\u00c2\u00a0 It&#8217;s funnier than it sounds, trust me.\u00c2\u00a0 All told this is fun series, the art&#8217;s pretty great but I&#8217;m not at all sure that the story is anything other than an excuse to have stoned dinosaurs wandering around.\u00c2\u00a0 The third issue will decide all that, I suppose.\u00c2\u00a0 $2<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/herbivores22.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"herbivores22\" src=\"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/herbivores22.jpg\" alt=\"herbivores22\" width=\"431\" height=\"658\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Website The Herbivores #2 James does an excellent job with some facts at the start of this issue, putting up some figures that everybody should know.\u00c2\u00a0 He lists the number of deaths each year from smoking, drinking (even leaving out all the drunk driving deaths), overdoses from illicit drugs, and ends with the number of [&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":[3281,2108],"class_list":["post-11940","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews","tag-james-stanton","tag-the-herbivores"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11940","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=11940"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11940\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11942,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11940\/revisions\/11942"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11940"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11940"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11940"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}