{"id":12599,"date":"2010-04-27T08:54:16","date_gmt":"2010-04-27T13:54:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/?p=12599"},"modified":"2010-04-06T20:35:11","modified_gmt":"2010-04-07T01:35:11","slug":"wright-chris-ink-weed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/?p=12599","title":{"rendered":"Wright, Chris – Ink Weed"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Ink Weed <\/strong>Now Available<\/a>!\u00c2\u00a0 $16<\/p>\n

If there’s one thing I can complain about in regards to doing this site (and even this is probably a bit of a stretch), it’s the fact that great comics can fly right by me and I never seek out anything else from that artist.\u00c2\u00a0 You can see from the review below that I loved the mini I saw from Chris, but that was at least 5 years ago and I haven’t seen a thing he’s done since.\u00c2\u00a0 It’s odd that I would follow people I liked more closely before I had this website than I do now.\u00c2\u00a0 Somebody should really speak to management here and get that fixed.\u00c2\u00a0 I’m going on about it because this book is a thing of brilliance, another one of those books that should be on the bookshelf of everyone who loves comics.\u00c2\u00a0 From the consistently rich and textured art to the sheer poetry involved in the writing of damned near every panel, you’re not going to find a more completely rewarding comics experience.\u00c2\u00a0 This is a collection of short pieces, most likely former mini comic, and plenty of original art in between the stories and at the end of the book.\u00c2\u00a0 First up is The Unmerciful Gift, in which an aging artist paints masterpieces that only he can see while never quite understanding why it’s happening.\u00c2\u00a0 Next up is Tapestry, and another old man watches the stars and lives his life with an attractive young assistant.\u00c2\u00a0 Ach!\u00c2\u00a0 Even in generalizing these things to a ridiculous degree, I feel like I’m giving away too much.\u00c2\u00a0 Other stories in here involve smoking out of a “toilet bowl”, an attempt at reconciliation going as wrong as it possibly could, a senile sea demon unexpectedly finding love, and quite possibly the best story of drunkenness and the consequences that I’ve ever seen (and yes, I am aware that there are many contenders for the title).\u00c2\u00a0 It’s all wrapped up with a few short pieces, an excerpt from a new book (?), and a series of new individual pieces.\u00c2\u00a0 The truly haunting parts of this book are best left out of a review, but believe me, they’re there.\u00c2\u00a0 That image in the bedroom, the tiny gun, what Simon is driving at…\u00c2\u00a0 It combines to make pretty much a perfect comic.\u00c2\u00a0 If you haven’t seen his work yet, this really needs to be picked up toot-sweet.\u00c2\u00a0 $16<\/p>\n

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Website Ink Weed Now Available!\u00c2\u00a0 $16 If there’s one thing I can complain about in regards to doing this site (and even this is probably a bit of a stretch), it’s the fact that great comics can fly right by me and I never seek out anything else from that artist.\u00c2\u00a0 You can see from […]<\/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":[3449,2401],"class_list":["post-12599","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews","tag-chris-wright","tag-ink-weed"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12599","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=12599"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12599\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12600,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12599\/revisions\/12600"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}