{"id":12944,"date":"2010-04-27T13:33:25","date_gmt":"2010-04-27T18:33:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/?p=12944"},"modified":"2010-04-23T14:27:42","modified_gmt":"2010-04-23T19:27:42","slug":"bartlett-andrew-mad-cow-comics-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/?p=12944","title":{"rendered":"Bartlett, Andrew &#8211; Mad Cow Comics #1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.comicspace.com\/aj_bartlett1977\/\">Website<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"mailto:aj_bartlett1977@yahoo.co.uk\">E-mail<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/images\/madcow11.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" width=\"406\" height=\"637\" \/><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Mad Cow Comics #1<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>OK, there&#8217;s good stuff in here, but there&#8217;s also plenty that got on  my nerves, so let&#8217;s start with the bad. The grammar in here (&#8220;you&#8217;re&#8221;  instead of &#8220;your&#8221;, etc.) is terrible. It&#8217;s wrong about as often as it  could be. That might be a tiny, insignificant thing to you, but for some  reason it&#8217;s one of those things that bugs the hell out of me. Then  there&#8217;s the main story, about war and what it does to a person, which is  a perfectly alright story&#8230; but then there&#8217;s panel descriptions at the  end. Again, this might be only me, but you shouldn&#8217;t have to explain  your comic right after the story is over. Then there are a couple of one  page strips that are sort of funny, a rant about media that&#8217;s great  (although it&#8217;s usually good, when mentioning independent news sites, to  give some of them by name), and a rant about the terrible state of music  on the radio today. That one was pretty accurate and funny, but I was  left wondering just what kind of music the author <em>did<\/em> like. Oh,  and I&#8217;m also not really sure who did what, but I think the two names  mentioned at the top of the page are responsible for most of it. All in  all a diverse effort, not too bad but full of a lot of simple (and  easily corrected) errors. Here&#8217;s a list of e-mails, so you can check  with them about getting a copy (it&#8217;s $1, by the way): <a href=\"mailto:aj_bartlett1977@yahoo.co.uk\">Andrew Bartlett<\/a> (author), <a href=\"mailto:JonLektonIsAlive@hotmail.com\">Jon Lekton<\/a> (artist), <a href=\"mailto:FeelTrimmTrabb@hotmail.com\">Alan Ferich<\/a> (I think  the guy who did the rant about music), and <a href=\"mailto:SimonKugel@msn.com\">Simon  Kugel<\/a> (he did the rant about media). Andrew&#8217;s probably your best  bet for getting a copy&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/images\/madcow12.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" width=\"395\" height=\"616\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Website E-mail Mad Cow Comics #1 OK, there&#8217;s good stuff in here, but there&#8217;s also plenty that got on my nerves, so let&#8217;s start with the bad. The grammar in here (&#8220;you&#8217;re&#8221; instead of &#8220;your&#8221;, etc.) is terrible. It&#8217;s wrong about as often as it could be. That might be a tiny, insignificant thing to [&hellip;]<\/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":[3531,606],"class_list":["post-12944","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews","tag-andrew-bartlett","tag-mad-cow-comics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12944","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=12944"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12944\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12947,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12944\/revisions\/12947"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12944"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12944"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12944"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}