{"id":13040,"date":"2010-04-27T14:51:12","date_gmt":"2010-04-27T19:51:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/?p=13040"},"modified":"2010-07-22T22:46:27","modified_gmt":"2010-07-23T03:46:27","slug":"brightman-jason-frayed-ends-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/?p=13040","title":{"rendered":"Brightman, Jason &#8211; Frayed Ends #3"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.frayedends.com\/\">Website<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/images\/frayed31.bmp\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" width=\"287\" height=\"454\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.frayedends.com\/store.html\">Frayed Ends #3<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This is one of those comics where it&#8217;s hard to say too much about it  until the story is over. So, at the risk of sounding like an idiot yet  again, I&#8217;m not going to let that stop me. The story here is that Paul is  a broken man after his long-time girlfriend leaves him, telling him  that she never loved him. This is four months after the break-up, mind  you. Anyway, he mopes about, stopping for a brief conversation with his  female friend Jelayne&#8230; and then the series stops being ordinary at  all. That&#8217;s all in #1, I&#8217;m just going one issue because I&#8217;m lazy. Paul  suddenly sees his imaginary friend from childhood, Edward, and Edward  takes him to on trip to find his (Edward&#8217;s) heart. By the time this  whole thing gets to #3 Jelayne is missing, a mysterious man named Argo  has been sent to find her, Paul catches up with his ex and Edward knows  where his heart is. What&#8217;s remarkable about this series is the imagery.  There are floating televisions all over the place in this alternate land  that Paul ends up in, along with a robot mayor and a proposition to ban  the carrying of concealed sticks. There seems to be a lot planned in  this series, which is a good thing, but I can&#8217;t find any reference to  #4, the last issue of the series. Looks like the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.frayedends.com\/\">website<\/a> hasn&#8217;t been updated this year, and that&#8217;s never a good sign. My main  problem with this series is that everything, in the first issue at  least, seems to happen way too fast. Jason may be fixing that by slowing  down and addressing the many strange things that happen, but it&#8217;s  impossible to tell if he&#8217;s going to do that in a satisfactory way until  it&#8217;s over. A good visual series, at least, and the story is great up to  now, as long as the ending doesn&#8217;t ruin anything&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/images\/frayed32.gif\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"748\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Website Frayed Ends #3 This is one of those comics where it&#8217;s hard to say too much about it until the story is over. So, at the risk of sounding like an idiot yet again, I&#8217;m not going to let that stop me. The story here is that Paul is a broken man after his [&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":[705,3569],"class_list":["post-13040","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews","tag-frayed-ends","tag-jason-brightman"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13040","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=13040"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13040\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13042,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13040\/revisions\/13042"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13040"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13040"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13040"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}