{"id":13052,"date":"2010-04-27T15:03:30","date_gmt":"2010-04-27T20:03:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/?p=13052"},"modified":"2010-07-22T22:46:27","modified_gmt":"2010-07-23T03:46:27","slug":"brubaker-ed-a-complete-lowlife","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/?p=13052","title":{"rendered":"Brubaker, Ed &#8211; A Complete Lowlife"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.edbrubaker.com\/\">Website<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/images\/lowlife1.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/1891830201\/xeroxarmy-20\" target=\"_blank\">A Complete Lowlife<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>For my money, this was the best series around to represent the  aimlessness of our generation when it first came out in 1991. There were  a lot of people trying to do what he was doing, but nobody was doing it  as well or as honestly as he was. I haven&#8217;t read this series in years  (as he&#8217;s since gone on to doing mostly mediocre stuff for Vertigo but,  to be honest, I haven&#8217;t read more than a fraction of it so I shouldn&#8217;t  talk too much shit), so I&#8217;m not going to comment on it now other than to  say that it was one of my favorites back in the day.<\/p>\n<p>NOTE (4\/23\/10) I&#8217;m leaving this as it was written because of how ridiculous it looks now.\u00c2\u00a0 Back then Ed was just a guy struggling to make the transition from independent\/sort of autobio stuff to the mainstream.\u00c2\u00a0 Since then, of course, he&#8217;s killed off Captain America (and, as far as I know, brought him back) and become a well-known and successful writer of mainstream comics.\u00c2\u00a0 Good on him!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Website A Complete Lowlife For my money, this was the best series around to represent the aimlessness of our generation when it first came out in 1991. There were a lot of people trying to do what he was doing, but nobody was doing it as well or as honestly as he was. I haven&#8217;t [&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":[3573,3574],"class_list":["post-13052","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews","tag-a-complete-lowlife","tag-ed-brubaker"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13052","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=13052"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13052\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13054,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13052\/revisions\/13054"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13052"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13052"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13052"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}