{"id":12444,"date":"2010-04-27T05:30:44","date_gmt":"2010-04-27T10:30:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/?p=12444"},"modified":"2010-04-06T15:43:15","modified_gmt":"2010-04-06T20:43:15","slug":"volozova-olga-juliacks-rock-that-never-sleeps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/?p=12444","title":{"rendered":"Volozova, Olga &#038; Juliacks &#8211; Rock That Never Sleeps"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.madcricket.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Website<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.juliacks.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Website for Juliacks<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/rock1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"rock1\" src=\"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/rock1.jpg\" alt=\"rock1\" width=\"479\" height=\"317\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Rock That Never Sleeps (with Juliacks)<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/?page_id=3417&amp;category=1&amp;product_id=433\">Now Available<\/a>!\u00c2\u00a0 $6<\/p>\n<p>Ah, interpretive comics.\u00c2\u00a0 The perfect chance for me to look like a complete doofus trying to interpret them.\u00c2\u00a0 There are two stories in this comic, and both of them deal with memory loss.\u00c2\u00a0 Olga is up first with the story of a town that is slowly losing its memory, the woman who put on the puppet shows in the town, and how said puppet makers go about trying to get their memory back.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 Honestly, it&#8217;s less a comic than a children&#8217;s book, although the line is blurry.\u00c2\u00a0 I demand at least one word balloon to call it a comic, although I do realize that I&#8217;m alone on that one.\u00c2\u00a0 I do love her use of words, how phrases and concepts float through the panels, and the totally unique way that she draws throughout her text boxes.\u00c2\u00a0 Oh, and I just flipped through the story again and saw that there was one word balloon, so I&#8217;m happy to call this a comic and kill off this controversy that I started a few sentences ago.\u00c2\u00a0 The other story is by Juliacks, and it cycles into this story in an odd way.\u00c2\u00a0 This story happens in 2196, has flashbacks to slightly older times and is much more subjective than the previous story, meaning that I&#8217;m still having trouble unpacking the damned thing.\u00c2\u00a0 The art is much more open that Olga&#8217;s.\u00c2\u00a0 The pages just feel bigger somehow, even though that makes no sense at all.\u00c2\u00a0 Both stories obviously deal heavily in memory, what holds memories together and what makes them true, so if you&#8217;ve ever had any interest in the subjects (and who hasn&#8217;t?) you&#8217;ll probably find something thought-provoking in these pages.\u00c2\u00a0 $6<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/rock2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"rock2\" src=\"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/rock2.jpg\" alt=\"rock2\" width=\"600\" height=\"424\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Website Website for Juliacks Rock That Never Sleeps (with Juliacks) Now Available!\u00c2\u00a0 $6 Ah, interpretive comics.\u00c2\u00a0 The perfect chance for me to look like a complete doofus trying to interpret them.\u00c2\u00a0 There are two stories in this comic, and both of them deal with memory loss.\u00c2\u00a0 Olga is up first with the story of a 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