{"id":13689,"date":"2010-04-28T00:18:27","date_gmt":"2010-04-28T05:18:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/?p=13689"},"modified":"2010-07-22T22:45:32","modified_gmt":"2010-07-23T03:45:32","slug":"lau-lynn-a-grain-of-salt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/?p=13689","title":{"rendered":"Lau, Lynn &#8211; A Grain of Salt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/lynnlau.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Website<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/agrainofsalt11.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"agrainofsalt11\" src=\"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/agrainofsalt11.jpg\" alt=\"agrainofsalt11\" width=\"322\" height=\"508\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>A Grain of Salt<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I think Lynn wins the prize for &#8220;most awkward opening scene in a mini  comic ever&#8221;.\u00c2\u00a0 Actually, there&#8217;s enough disturbing stuff out there that  it&#8217;d be a pretty stiff competition, but this one has to be up there.\u00c2\u00a0 A  young girl and her brother are sitting at a diner, enjoying their lunch,  when the brother proclaims that he wants to have his sister&#8217;s babies.\u00c2\u00a0  The sister is rightly disgusted and outraged (as is the passing  waitress), but by the end Lynn has somehow managed to right this into a  more than slightly heartwarming comic.\u00c2\u00a0 Yes, it&#8217;s possible, and yes, it  all makes sense in the end.\u00c2\u00a0 This is a tiny thing (5 pages of comic) so  it&#8217;s impossible to say too much without giving the whole plot away, but I  was able to come away with the impression that Lynn has a nice ear for  dialogue.\u00c2\u00a0 It&#8217;s hard to say much more about Lynn from such a small  sample (and there&#8217;s artwork available on her website but I&#8217;m not seeing  comics), but I am intrigued.\u00c2\u00a0 Hard not to be after an opening scene like  that!\u00c2\u00a0 $1<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/agrainofsalt2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"agrainofsalt2\" src=\"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/agrainofsalt2.jpg\" alt=\"agrainofsalt2\" width=\"440\" height=\"627\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Website A Grain of Salt I think Lynn wins the prize for &#8220;most awkward opening scene in a mini comic ever&#8221;.\u00c2\u00a0 Actually, there&#8217;s enough disturbing stuff out there that it&#8217;d be a pretty stiff competition, but this one has to be up there.\u00c2\u00a0 A young girl and her brother are sitting at a diner, enjoying [&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":[1520,3773],"class_list":["post-13689","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews","tag-a-grain-of-salt","tag-lynn-lau"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13689","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=13689"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13689\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13692,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13689\/revisions\/13692"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}