{"id":13626,"date":"2010-04-27T23:06:45","date_gmt":"2010-04-28T04:06:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/?p=13626"},"modified":"2010-07-22T22:45:35","modified_gmt":"2010-07-23T03:45:35","slug":"kochalka-james-james-kochalka-superstar-11","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/?p=13626","title":{"rendered":"Kochalka, James – James Kochalka Superstar #11"},"content":{"rendered":"

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James Kochalka Superstar #11<\/strong><\/p>\n

At this point it’s impossible to deny it: somewhere along the line I fell out of love with all things Kochalkian.\u00c2\u00a0 Scrolling down this page it’s a bit baffling, as I was pretty biased towards just about everything the guy did.\u00c2\u00a0 Still, I checked out his website before starting this review and his daily strips mostly just got on my nerves.\u00c2\u00a0 Is it me?\u00c2\u00a0 Have I finally become a joyless person well on his way into middle age?\u00c2\u00a0 Or have I finally developed a more discriminating taste in comics?\u00c2\u00a0 Eh, who knows, and despite many people thinking this is a blog, this is supposed to be about the comics and not me.\u00c2\u00a0 I fail in that on practically a daily basis, but that has always been the goal.\u00c2\u00a0 This mini is about the San Diego Comic Con in 1998, as James was there promoting his new (at the time) book Tiny Bubbles.\u00c2\u00a0 This covers a five day span (8\/12\/98 to 8\/17\/98) as he attempts to draw on a plane, washes his hair with soap instead of shampoo, sticks a carrot in his ear, worries about not taking a shit in four days, is told he’s nothing like his Magic Boy character, pees in the ocean, pees outside of his room when he locks himself out, and mentions (but doesn’t go into detail about) his conversation about comics with Seth and Chester Brown.\u00c2\u00a0 See, this was the kind of thing that bugged me even when I was hopelessly biased towards the guy: he would reference something that happened during his day that had potential to be genuinely interesting but, due to the nature of his daily strips, never had the chance to go into any detail.\u00c2\u00a0 I don’t know if this disillusionment is permanent or just the result of a bad day, so maybe I’ll go back to a few of the graphic novels I loved back in the day soon and find out for sure.\u00c2\u00a0 Either way, for the time being this struck me as being more obnoxious than anything else.\u00c2\u00a0 $1<\/p>\n

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Website James Kochalka Superstar #11 At this point it’s impossible to deny it: somewhere along the line I fell out of love with all things Kochalkian.\u00c2\u00a0 Scrolling down this page it’s a bit baffling, as I was pretty biased towards just about everything the guy did.\u00c2\u00a0 Still, I checked out his website before starting this […]<\/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":[2182,3762],"class_list":["post-13626","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews","tag-james-kochalka","tag-superstar"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13626","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=13626"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13626\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16669,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13626\/revisions\/16669"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}