{"id":12915,"date":"2010-04-27T12:45:34","date_gmt":"2010-04-27T17:45:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/?p=12915"},"modified":"2010-04-23T14:02:43","modified_gmt":"2010-04-23T19:02:43","slug":"baker-nathaniel-lopez-lee-roy-into-the-dark-ashcan-edition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/?p=12915","title":{"rendered":"Baker, Nathaniel &#038; Lopez, Lee Roy &#8211; Into the Dark Ashcan Edition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.projectfanboy.com\/vb\/showthread.php?t=2530\" target=\"_blank\">Not really their website<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.silentsoul.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Their website,  which doesn&#8217;t load as of 7\/7\/09<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/intothedark1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"intothedark1\" src=\"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/intothedark1.jpg\" alt=\"intothedark1\" width=\"326\" height=\"513\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Into the Dark: Ashcan edition<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m posting two websites above (one which doesn&#8217;t work and one which  just has a basic description of their company and what they hope to  accomplish) because one of them is bound to work soon.\u00c2\u00a0 I mean, these  people only got started at SPACE 2009, I can&#8217;t see why they would give  up so soon.\u00c2\u00a0 Yes, I am the eternal optimist.\u00c2\u00a0 Also, if you&#8217;re doing an  ashcan, put some freaking contact information in your book!\u00c2\u00a0 That&#8217;s true  of all mini comics, granted, but the whole point of ashcans is to get  the word out about your comics.\u00c2\u00a0 That&#8217;s tough to do if people can&#8217;t find  you.\u00c2\u00a0 All of this is an unwelcome distraction from the comic, which  showed a lot of promise.\u00c2\u00a0 This is the story of a man who is failing at  his job and with his marriage, and seems to be failing with his daughter  as well.\u00c2\u00a0 Things come to a head, he passes out and wakes up in an  asylum with no memory of how he got there or where exactly he was.\u00c2\u00a0 The  rest of this shortie shows this man trying to come to grips with his  situation while also dealing with some pretty horrific monsters that  seem to pop up from time to time.\u00c2\u00a0 Yes, all kinds of things are still  vague, which is fine because this is just an ashcan.\u00c2\u00a0 All it was  supposed to do was to get the reader excited to see an actual comic with  this subject, and they succeeded in that goal.\u00c2\u00a0 Granted, the fact that  they don&#8217;t have a working website 3 months after SPACE isn&#8217;t a good  sign, and it&#8217;s entirely possible that they&#8217;ve given up on comics  already.\u00c2\u00a0 Still, this issue tells me that they deserve the benefit of  the doubt, even if they did screw up by not having any sort of available  access to their work online, not even a lousy e-mail address.\u00c2\u00a0 That  being the case, I have no idea of price, but it&#8217;s a black and white  mini, so let&#8217;s call it $1.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/intothedark2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"intothedark2\" src=\"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/intothedark2.jpg\" alt=\"intothedark2\" width=\"429\" height=\"615\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Not really their website Their website, which doesn&#8217;t load as of 7\/7\/09 Into the Dark: Ashcan edition I&#8217;m posting two websites above (one which doesn&#8217;t work and one which just has a basic description of their company and what they hope to accomplish) because one of them is bound to work soon.\u00c2\u00a0 I mean, these 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