{"id":13371,"date":"2010-04-27T19:48:30","date_gmt":"2010-04-28T00:48:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/?p=13371"},"modified":"2010-07-22T22:45:46","modified_gmt":"2010-07-23T03:45:46","slug":"getliffe-chris-dirty-beast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/?p=13371","title":{"rendered":"Getliffe, Chris &#8211; Dirty Beast"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.getliffe.com\" target=\"_blank\">Website<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/dirtybeast11.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"dirtybeast11\" src=\"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/dirtybeast11.jpg\" alt=\"dirtybeast11\" width=\"342\" height=\"497\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Dirty Beast #1<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Just so I can get it out of the way in the first sentence for people  who like easy comparisons: this comic reminded me more than a little bit  of Arsenic Lullaby by Doug Paszkiewicz, except funnier.\u00c2\u00a0 This mini is a  barrage of short pieces with no story titles or anything to indicate  any changeover in the story, except of course for the fact that the  story changes.\u00c2\u00a0 It got me wishing for another page or so more than once,  so I think that means Chris was doing his job as an artist.\u00c2\u00a0 Or he was  failing miserably in not satisfying me with however many pages he  already had planned out for each individual story, depending on your  level of pessimism.\u00c2\u00a0 As it&#8217;s pointless to review humor bit by bit, I&#8217;ll  just give you some of the general themes (along with the early  comparison to Arsenic Lullaby for reference) and you can decide if this  fits your humor level or not, OK?\u00c2\u00a0 There&#8217;s awkward touching, an adaptive  prostitute, wanton destruction, finding humor in a stroke, sex follies,  getting the pictures of strangers developed, swimming with sharks, and  kidnapping.\u00c2\u00a0 That&#8217;s probably vague enough to not give anything big away,  don&#8217;t you think?\u00c2\u00a0 I chuckled out loud a few times while reading this,  and those empty white eyeballs in his art had me damned near hypnotized  after awhile.\u00c2\u00a0 Definitely worth a look to see where Chris goes from  here, as more genuinely funny comics (sad that they&#8217;re as rare as they  are) are always a good thing.\u00c2\u00a0 $3<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/dirtybeast12.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"dirtybeast12\" src=\"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/dirtybeast12.jpg\" alt=\"dirtybeast12\" width=\"457\" height=\"669\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Website Dirty Beast #1 Just so I can get it out of the way in the first sentence for people who like easy comparisons: this comic reminded me more than a little bit of Arsenic Lullaby by Doug Paszkiewicz, except funnier.\u00c2\u00a0 This mini is a barrage of short pieces with no story titles or anything [&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":[3679,1150],"class_list":["post-13371","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews","tag-chris-getliffe","tag-dirty-beast"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13371","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=13371"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13371\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13374,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13371\/revisions\/13374"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}