{"id":12146,"date":"2010-04-26T23:33:34","date_gmt":"2010-04-27T04:33:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/?p=12146"},"modified":"2010-04-05T19:58:37","modified_gmt":"2010-04-06T00:58:37","slug":"taylor-rebecca-the-wonderful-year-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/?p=12146","title":{"rendered":"Taylor, Rebecca &#8211; The Wonderful Year #2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sharptonguedshrew.com\" target=\"_blank\">Website<\/a> (not so much as of 2010)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/wonderfulyear21.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"wonderfulyear21\" src=\"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/wonderfulyear21.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"368\" height=\"462\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>The Wonderful Year #2<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve almost managed to fill in all the blanks on all of Rebecca&#8217;s earlier work, at which point&#8230; hm.\u00c2\u00a0 Don&#8217;t seem to have an ending for that sentence.\u00c2\u00a0 At which point the world will be a slightly better place, as samples from all of her comics (that I know of) will be on a currently functioning website?\u00c2\u00a0 I&#8217;ll go with that one.\u00c2\u00a0 This comic, as is the case with most of her book, wanders around a bit, eschewing that &#8220;traditional narrative&#8221; thing we&#8217;ve all gotten used to over the years.\u00c2\u00a0 Still, who needs a traditional narrative?\u00c2\u00a0 She manages to make her points in other ways.\u00c2\u00a0 Subjects in here include various fantasies about funerals, &#8220;light as a feather, stiff as a board&#8221;, loneliness, watching something irony-free, keeping pedophilia simple, making out with the guy from Blue&#8217;s Traveler, and a dream of making out in a sink.\u00c2\u00a0 Again, descriptions of this are just about pointless, so I have a tendency to leave it up to the reader&#8230; who will quite possibly never see this book, as it&#8217;s out of print.\u00c2\u00a0 Oh well, that&#8217;s the price of reviewing old mini comics.\u00c2\u00a0 If you can find this it&#8217;s probably only a couple of bucks, but good luck with that&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/wonderfulyear22.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"wonderfulyear22\" src=\"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/wonderfulyear22.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"488\" height=\"655\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Website (not so much as of 2010) The Wonderful Year #2 I&#8217;ve almost managed to fill in all the blanks on all of Rebecca&#8217;s earlier work, at which point&#8230; hm.\u00c2\u00a0 Don&#8217;t seem to have an ending for that sentence.\u00c2\u00a0 At which point the world will be a slightly better place, as samples from all 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":[3321,1391],"class_list":["post-12146","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews","tag-rebecca-taylor","tag-the-wonderful-year"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12146","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=12146"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12146\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12152,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12146\/revisions\/12152"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}