{"id":12287,"date":"2010-04-27T02:36:19","date_gmt":"2010-04-27T07:36:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/?p=12287"},"modified":"2010-04-06T12:53:26","modified_gmt":"2010-04-06T17:53:26","slug":"ullman-robert-from-the-curve-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/?p=12287","title":{"rendered":"Ullman, Robert – From the Curve #7"},"content":{"rendered":"

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From the Curve #7<\/strong><\/p>\n

You know, somebody told me years ago to put dates on these reviews and I never bothered, figuring it would be too much of a pain in the ass.\u00c2\u00a0 8 years later, I would like to just say on the record to everybody who recommended this: you were right.\u00c2\u00a0 It would have made things a whole lot easier now, on 2\/2\/10 (better late than never, right?), to know exactly when these reviews were coming from.\u00c2\u00a0 The last two issues of this series clearly came from 2001-2002, as that’s when I lived 2 and a half hours from Chicago.\u00c2\u00a0 As for the rest of it, who knows?\u00c2\u00a0 I could go back to each individual update page and check the new reviews for each date, but I got tired just typing that sentence.\u00c2\u00a0 Doing that for every day over the last 8+ years… well, forget it.\u00c2\u00a0 So how about this comic?\u00c2\u00a0 Rob is actually represented pretty well on this page, as I got my first issues of his comic right around when I was putting this website together, but I did manage to miss this one.\u00c2\u00a0 If I’m remembering this correctly (and I wouldn’t bet any money on it) this was the last issue of the regular series From The Curve, after which he did a number of assorted projects, and it still making comics today.\u00c2\u00a0 This issue is mostly a collection of short pieces, including a tribute to Charles Schulz, p-mail, wasting his time at a big box computer store, waking up in the early morning and the genuine confusion associated with it, why we look at a kleenex after we blow our nose, going to a very tiny comic show, getting to a late movie when the driver doesn’t know what he’s doing, his failed attempt at a stream-of-consciousness mystery, a depressed dog, dreaming a better evening than what actually happened, and leaving Richmond.\u00c2\u00a0 It’s a solid issue, and one more reason for me to lament the fact that so few mini comics from back in the day are still available in any format these days.\u00c2\u00a0 Why, in my day… well, in my day these were pretty hard to come by too.\u00c2\u00a0 OK, forget that part.\u00c2\u00a0 You should check out his newer books though, and at least he had the decency to put out a collected edition of at least some of his comics.\u00c2\u00a0 $2<\/p>\n

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