{"id":13567,"date":"2010-04-27T22:03:51","date_gmt":"2010-04-28T03:03:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/?p=13567"},"modified":"2010-07-22T22:45:38","modified_gmt":"2010-07-23T03:45:38","slug":"keavney-martha-badly-drawn-comics-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/?p=13567","title":{"rendered":"Keavney, Martha &#8211; Badly Drawn Comics #7"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.badlydrawncomics.com\/\">Website<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/images\/badlydrawn71.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" width=\"282\" height=\"429\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Badly Drawn Comics #7<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This is one of those comics where I don&#8217;t really know what to say.  The art isn&#8217;t very good, but you can tell that from the title of the  book and if the author doesn&#8217;t have a problem with it, why should I? I  thoroughly enjoyed the main story, The Mix-Up, in this one. Let me try  to sum it up for you. Martha gets a job by convincing her employer that  she is dating someone when she&#8217;s single. She calls on a female friend to  help her out for the night, and she&#8217;ll hook Martha up with a supposedly  gay friend if Martha transports the dead body of her cousin to the  funeral home. Things get even more confusing when they get to dinner,  and there are all kinds of twists and turns thrown in. It all goes  together a lot better than I thought it would and it was pretty funny.  How could you ask for more? Pretty much the only thing that I didn&#8217;t  like were some of the gag strips, as they just weren&#8217;t suited to my  sense of humor. I think that was what put me off about some of both of  these two issues, even though they definitely both had enough to make  them worth checking out. They&#8217;re done pretty well and it&#8217;s obvious that  Martha is an extremely intelligent woman, it&#8217;s just that they seemed  kind of&#8230; plain at times. That&#8217;s probably a horrible way to describe  it, but that&#8217;s the best that I can come up with. Regardless, The  Dead-End Job, The Mix-Up and some of the shorter pieces were great, and  that&#8217;s almost the whole book right there. If you&#8217;re incredibly worried  about the art, you can tell by her website that she has improved over  the years. So, even though I can&#8217;t point to anything as being that  specifically bad and the things I can point to were actually pretty  good, I&#8217;m left with an impression of &#8220;eh&#8221;. Maybe because that&#8217;s just  been my mood all day, I don&#8217;t know. That should show all of you who are  trying to read these things and expect an intelligent analysis of these  comics&#8230; Seriously though, go to her <a href=\"http:\/\/www.badlydrawncomics.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">site<\/a> and  decide for yourself. There are all kinds of samples there. And here&#8217;s a  couple from me:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/images\/badlydrawn72.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" width=\"460\" height=\"689\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Website Badly Drawn Comics #7 This is one of those comics where I don&#8217;t really know what to say. The art isn&#8217;t very good, but you can tell that from the title of the book and if the author doesn&#8217;t have a problem with it, why should I? I thoroughly enjoyed the main story, The [&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":[1405,3745],"class_list":["post-13567","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews","tag-badly-drawn-comics","tag-martha-keavney"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13567","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=13567"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13567\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13569,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13567\/revisions\/13569"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13567"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13567"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13567"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}