{"id":12311,"date":"2010-04-27T02:57:58","date_gmt":"2010-04-27T07:57:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/?p=12311"},"modified":"2010-04-06T12:59:36","modified_gmt":"2010-04-06T17:59:36","slug":"upton-colin-famous-bus-rides-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/?p=12311","title":{"rendered":"Upton, Colin – Famous Bus Rides #1"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Famous Bus Rides #1<\/strong><\/p>\n

If you’re thinking “wow, three reviews on Colin with three different titles?\u00c2\u00a0 That’s a wide range of stuff!!”, I haven’t even scratched the surface yet.\u00c2\u00a0 Keep in mind that he still (as far as I can tell) has a set of 60 minis available for $25, and that deals with at least 12 series, probably more, and the bulk of those have more than one issue.\u00c2\u00a0 He’s a man with interests all over the place, although they often do follow roughly the same track, like this one.\u00c2\u00a0 Readers of the review for the last issue will probably have a sense for what kind of a guy Colin is (or was back in the day), so the fact that he rides the bus should come as no surprise.\u00c2\u00a0 So why not make some comics out of the experience?\u00c2\u00a0 This, like most of his minis, is a short book (8 pages), with full page spreads.\u00c2\u00a0 In this issue he shows a Sikh woman (who he chose to sit next to out of the hope of avoiding trouble, as he seems to often ride the bus late at night, but wonders about how she saw him), a group of three drunks (or possibly just jerks), the possibility of dealing with a drunk puking, a drooling sleeping man (who he was oddly charmed by, probably just in relation to the other nonsense he saw on the bus), a fender bender and a man who started cursing out loud for no good reason.\u00c2\u00a0 It’s a quicker read than some of his more packed comics, but it’s still funny, so what more do you want?\u00c2\u00a0 Again, individual issues still seem to be $.40, the set of 60 is $25.<\/p>\n

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Website Famous Bus Rides #1 If you’re thinking “wow, three reviews on Colin with three different titles?\u00c2\u00a0 That’s a wide range of stuff!!”, I haven’t even scratched the surface yet.\u00c2\u00a0 Keep in mind that he still (as far as I can tell) has a set of 60 minis available for $25, and that deals with […]<\/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":[465,466],"class_list":["post-12311","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews","tag-colin-upton","tag-famous-bus-rides"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12311","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=12311"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12311\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12314,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12311\/revisions\/12314"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}