{"id":11952,"date":"2010-04-26T19:48:22","date_gmt":"2010-04-27T00:48:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/?p=11952"},"modified":"2010-04-05T12:06:54","modified_gmt":"2010-04-05T17:06:54","slug":"steckler-ben-unshaven-chi-2get-bent-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/?p=11952","title":{"rendered":"Steckler, Ben &#8211; Unshaven Chi #2\/Get Bent #6"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/webspace.webring.com\/people\/ib\/bent4toons\/store.html\" target=\"_blank\">Website<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/unshavenchi21.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"unshavenchi21\" src=\"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/unshavenchi21.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"303\" height=\"430\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Unshaven Chi #2\/ Get Bent #6<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Ah, the flip book.\u00c2\u00a0 It has made a real mess of this page, that&#8217;s for sure.\u00c2\u00a0 This review is above Unshaven Chi #4, as it should be, but also above Get Bent #5, which makes no sense.\u00c2\u00a0 Ah well, who has time to fix such things?\u00c2\u00a0 And to add to the confusion, I sampled the Unshaven Chi cover and took the sampled image from the Get Bent story.\u00c2\u00a0 OK, maybe it only bothers me.\u00c2\u00a0 The Unshaven Chi chunk of the book (unless it makes to the staple it&#8217;s not officially a half) deals with Ben&#8217;s new ability to grow a beard at work (after he just shaved it to a moustache to fit with store policy), how he&#8217;s lost a little weight and it&#8217;s getting noticed by people other than him, America and its collective acceptance of mediocrity, and how easy it is to make an autobio comic.\u00c2\u00a0 As for the Get Bent portion, most of it is a fairly ridiculous continuing story about former ska musicians stuck in space (with a cosmic cube parody), which might make more sense if I had the brains to read these in order instead of randomly, and usually spread out over a period of years.\u00c2\u00a0 Still, this story is saved by a digression at the beginning involving the death of DeForest Kelly and Ben&#8217;s own near-miss at becoming a Trekkie as an adult.\u00c2\u00a0 The whole thing is worth a look, but you could tell even he was getting sick of the ska space story, as a good chunk of the pages were full page splash dealies.\u00c2\u00a0 Is it still available at this late date?\u00c2\u00a0 Probably not, but you never know&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/unshavenchi22.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"unshavenchi22\" src=\"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/unshavenchi22.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"411\" height=\"583\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Website Unshaven Chi #2\/ Get Bent #6 Ah, the flip book.\u00c2\u00a0 It has made a real mess of this page, that&#8217;s for sure.\u00c2\u00a0 This review is above Unshaven Chi #4, as it should be, but also above Get Bent #5, which makes no sense.\u00c2\u00a0 Ah well, who has time to fix such things?\u00c2\u00a0 And to [&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":[462,464,463],"class_list":["post-11952","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews","tag-ben-steckler","tag-get-bent","tag-unshaven-chi"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11952","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=11952"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11952\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11960,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11952\/revisions\/11960"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11952"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11952"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11952"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}