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Good Minnesotan #2<\/strong><\/p>\n

Huzzah for a second issue!\u00c2\u00a0 Even better news is that this was actually sent to me months ago and I’m just now getting to it, meaning that the third issue is almost out as well.\u00c2\u00a0 That level of productivity is never a bad thing.\u00c2\u00a0 OK, so the first review was mostly gushing due to how I impressed I was at the concept, so this time I’ll stick more to the content.\u00c2\u00a0 It’s the same cast of artists with a few new people thrown in.\u00c2\u00a0 First up is Back Pages by Ed Moorman, a fictional (?) conversation with a confrontational Bob Dylan in 1966.\u00c2\u00a0 Thoroughly engaging and sharp, and it’s certainly not hard to imagine that conversation taking place with Bob Dylan.\u00c2\u00a0 Next is Halloween (Revisited) by Gail Kern, and I have to apologize for using the last page of her story as the sample for this issue.\u00c2\u00a0 Regular readers of this site know that I hate spoilers, but that image of the headless horseman frantically trying to save his head is going to be lodged in my brain for weeks.\u00c2\u00a0 Meghan Hogan is up next with a bit of poetry about wanting to fight a shark, followed by a surprisingly mournful tale of growing old with someone and the mistakes they made along the way.\u00c2\u00a0 Next is an untitled piece by Joseph Nixon, a mostly impressionistic “origin story” on how he knew he wanted to be a painter, which is probably at least a little bit more interesting than most.\u00c2\u00a0 Raighne Hogan & Alex Witts team up next to tell the tale of a dictator, his methods and the inevitable conclusion.\u00c2\u00a0 Luke has a long but tiny (if you see the pictures you’ll know what I mean) story about… oh crap, a wordless story I have to interpret.\u00c2\u00a0 OK, there’s a bird chirping a story to a human about a large monsterish creature going for a walk, playing with its shadow and jumping out of a car.\u00c2\u00a0 Yep, that’s why they pay me the big bucks.\u00c2\u00a0 Finally there’s The Ripoff by Nicholas Breutzman, possibly the highlight of a collection of solid pieces, involving a pierced penis and the very literal usage of the title.\u00c2\u00a0 If you like your anthologies diverse and thought-provoking, you could do a whole lot worse than this.\u00c2\u00a0 The $12 price tag may scare a few people off but this thing is packed, and I didn’t even go into all the extra sketches and images at the back of the book.\u00c2\u00a0 Worth a look.<\/p>\n

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Website Good Minnesotan #2 Huzzah for a second issue!\u00c2\u00a0 Even better news is that this was actually sent to me months ago and I’m just now getting to it, meaning that the third issue is almost out as well.\u00c2\u00a0 That level of productivity is never a bad thing.\u00c2\u00a0 OK, so the first review was mostly […]<\/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":[3368,2841,3365,2291,3367,3366,3369,3362],"class_list":["post-12340","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews","tag-alex-witts","tag-ed-moorman","tag-gail-kern","tag-good-minnesotan","tag-joseph-nixon","tag-meghan-hogan","tag-nicholas-breutzman","tag-raighne-hogan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12340","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=12340"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12340\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12345,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12340\/revisions\/12345"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}