{"id":12977,"date":"2010-04-27T14:00:05","date_gmt":"2010-04-27T19:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/?p=12977"},"modified":"2010-07-22T22:46:29","modified_gmt":"2010-07-23T03:46:29","slug":"bintz-john-a-moment-of-clarity-book-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/?p=12977","title":{"rendered":"Bintz, John &#8211; A Moment of Clarity Book 1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.claritycomic.com\">Website<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/images\/clarity1.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" hspace=\"0\" align=\"bottom\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>A Moment of Clarity Book 1<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;ve read enough of this website, you&#8217;ll know that I&#8217;ve talked before about the line with all-ages comics between being adorable in a good way and being so adorable that start to feel a bit nauseous after a few pages. The art in this one, unfortunately, is an example of the latter case. Every character perpetually looks like they&#8217;ve been hit right between the eyes (if any of them had any space between their eyes, I guess) with a 2X4. As always, this is just the way I see it and I&#8217;m sure plenty of people find this level of cuteness perfectly acceptable. It&#8217;s meant to be an all-ages book too, so a certain level of cuteness is acceptable. I just thought it went way over that line. OK, enough about the art. What about the rest of the comic? Well, that contributes more than a little bit to the cuteness factor, but not too terribly much. It&#8217;s all about an 11 year old as he deal with siblings, girls, school, dealing with a bully and being a bully himself. I don&#8217;t think I would have been able to call my parents &#8220;Mommy&#8221; and &#8220;Daddy&#8221; at that age to my friends without getting teased mercilessly, but maybe John grew up in a different time. All in all a decent book, probably a lot better if you have children and\/or aren&#8217;t quite as cynical as I am&#8230; $8<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/images\/clarity2.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" hspace=\"0\" align=\"bottom\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Website A Moment of Clarity Book 1 If you&#8217;ve read enough of this website, you&#8217;ll know that I&#8217;ve talked before about the line with all-ages comics between being adorable in a good way and being so adorable that start to feel a bit nauseous after a few pages. The art in this one, unfortunately, is [&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":[656,3551],"class_list":["post-12977","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews","tag-a-moment-of-clarity","tag-john-bintz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12977","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=12977"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12977\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12979,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12977\/revisions\/12979"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12977"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12977"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12977"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}