{"id":13449,"date":"2010-04-27T21:00:22","date_gmt":"2010-04-28T02:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/?p=13449"},"modified":"2010-07-22T22:45:41","modified_gmt":"2010-07-23T03:45:41","slug":"hagen-brian-vermin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/?p=13449","title":{"rendered":"Hagen, Brian &#8211; Vermin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/brian-hagen.blogspot.com\" target=\"_blank\">Website<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/vermin11.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"vermin11\" src=\"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/vermin11.jpg\" alt=\"vermin11\" width=\"442\" height=\"689\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Vermin<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The intro comic to this book has a character saying &#8220;This way&#8230; to  contrived bullshit without context&#8221;.\u00c2\u00a0 While Brian is being a little too  hard on himself, that is a more or less accurate description of his  comics.\u00c2\u00a0 This is a collection of a dozen strips covering a wide variety  of subjects, often not making a whole lot of sense.\u00c2\u00a0 I was hoping that  his website or his blog would have more examples of his comics, but  could only find one strip on his main page.\u00c2\u00a0 An archive of some sort  would have been helpful, but I&#8217;ll just stick to commenting on the stuff  in the actual comic instead.\u00c2\u00a0 There&#8217;s the combination of pussy and  pastrami, fun with rhyming, the merits of a threesome versus a foursome,  images of homosexual penguins, a conversation-stopper of an answer to  the question &#8220;Where do you see yourself in five years?&#8221;, and being  robbed of manliness.\u00c2\u00a0 These strips fall more into the category of  headscratchers than being laugh out loud funny (except for the  pussy\/pastrami joke and the comic on the cover), but everything is  gorgeous and that&#8217;s a ton of variety for 12 strips.\u00c2\u00a0 Maybe if you dig  around his website more than I did you can find more samples, as I  didn&#8217;t see this book for sale anywhere.\u00c2\u00a0 I&#8217;m sure if you contact him  he&#8217;ll find a copy, and he also mentions on his site that he&#8217;s willing to  draw anything for anyone.\u00c2\u00a0 Any rich people out there willing to test  him out?\u00c2\u00a0 No price, so I&#8217;ll randomly call it $2.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/vermin12.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"vermin12\" src=\"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/vermin12.jpg\" alt=\"vermin12\" width=\"424\" height=\"543\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Website Vermin The intro comic to this book has a character saying &#8220;This way&#8230; to contrived bullshit without context&#8221;.\u00c2\u00a0 While Brian is being a little too hard on himself, that is a more or less accurate description of his comics.\u00c2\u00a0 This is a collection of a dozen strips covering a wide variety of subjects, often [&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":[3704,1231],"class_list":["post-13449","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews","tag-brian-hagen","tag-vermin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13449","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=13449"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13449\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13453,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13449\/revisions\/13453"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}