{"id":13499,"date":"2010-04-27T20:48:36","date_gmt":"2010-04-28T01:48:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/?p=13499"},"modified":"2010-07-22T22:45:42","modified_gmt":"2010-07-23T03:45:42","slug":"hrabe-ian-problems-with-solutions-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/?p=13499","title":{"rendered":"Hrabe, Ian &#8211; Problems With Solutions #2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/iancredible.livejournal.com\/\">Website<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/images\/problems21.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" align=\"baseline\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Problems With Solutions #2<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Dammit! Here I am, all set to start off the new year (2008, in case you&#8217;re reading this years from now) blasting away at mediocrity instead of being so wishy-washy, and the first comic I pick up out of my pile has a set excuse for being so-so: this is a continuation of the first issue of the series, which I haven&#8217;t seen, and these piece are &#8220;B-sides&#8221; from that issue. So there are instantly lowered expectations and not much of a standard to strive for. Oh well, better luck tomorrow. If the first issue has the best of these stories, then this could be a worthy companion piece. If they&#8217;re all like this, it&#8217;s a fairly mediocre comic. Stories in here include Ian working in class, getting a grade back on a Shakespeare paper, watching a friend play Mario 3, bemoaning the state of free radio, chatting with friends, &#8220;dressing up&#8221; for Halloween, and a long, extended story at the end about the general state of voter apathy. I&#8217;m ignoring the stories that are just long walks with song lyrics as text because dude, that&#8217;s cheating. Like I said, it&#8217;s OK overall, the art is a little sloppy but decent and the lettering could use some work, but as a collection of B-sides it works. Of course, the fact that the website hasn&#8217;t been updated since right around when this comic came out isn&#8217;t a good sign&#8230; $1<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/images\/problems22.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" align=\"baseline\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Website Problems With Solutions #2 Dammit! Here I am, all set to start off the new year (2008, in case you&#8217;re reading this years from now) blasting away at mediocrity instead of being so wishy-washy, and the first comic I pick up out of my pile has a set excuse for being so-so: this 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":[3723,1311],"class_list":["post-13499","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews","tag-ian-hrabe","tag-problems-with-solutions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13499","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=13499"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13499\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13501,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13499\/revisions\/13501"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13499"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}