{"id":13741,"date":"2010-04-28T01:09:13","date_gmt":"2010-04-28T06:09:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/?p=13741"},"modified":"2010-07-22T22:45:30","modified_gmt":"2010-07-23T03:45:30","slug":"m-simon-smoo-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/?p=13741","title":{"rendered":"M., Simon &#8211; Smoo! #2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/smoo.tumblr.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Website<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/smoo21.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"smoo21\" src=\"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/smoo21.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"340\" height=\"489\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Smoo! #2<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Ah, the quiet, contemplative comic.\u00c2\u00a0 They seem to be harder to come  by these days, although that could be my imagination, or perhaps just my  lousy memory.\u00c2\u00a0 This one is a series of short pieces that all more or  less blend together.\u00c2\u00a0 Things start with Simon needing a change and going  for the easiest one: haircut and growing a beard.\u00c2\u00a0 Stories after that  include visiting a stranger&#8217;s grave, exaggerating your qualities while  telling stories about yourself to strangers, the nature of time and  worrying about the future, the inability to really remove yourself from  the world, Simon&#8217;s sudden memory of killing a small wounded animal as a  child as something he thought of as a kindness, and the brief space  right after a fight with a girlfriend when things could go in any of a  number of directions.\u00c2\u00a0 The stories have more variety than you might  think from those basic descriptions, as Simon regularly populates  stories with images and\/or demons from his mind.\u00c2\u00a0 The art is quietly  impressive without being overbearing, as it seems simple enough until  you really start to pick at it, then you can see that there&#8217;s plenty  going on.\u00c2\u00a0 None of that lazy, &#8220;I&#8217;ll just skip the backgrounds&#8221; nonsense  going on here.\u00c2\u00a0 Anyway, it&#8217;s worth a look, although it&#8217;s always at least  mildly worrisome when the most recent book from somebody was done over a  year ago.\u00c2\u00a0 Or worrisome to me at least, as it seems like minis build up  a momentum of their own and once they&#8217;re left alone for too long that  momentum never comes back.\u00c2\u00a0 No price, but let&#8217;s go with $3 for no  reason.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/smoo22.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"smoo22\" src=\"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/smoo22.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"475\" height=\"655\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Website Smoo! #2 Ah, the quiet, contemplative comic.\u00c2\u00a0 They seem to be harder to come by these days, although that could be my imagination, or perhaps just my lousy memory.\u00c2\u00a0 This one is a series of short pieces that all more or less blend together.\u00c2\u00a0 Things start with Simon needing a change and going for [&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":[2952,1583],"class_list":["post-13741","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews","tag-simon-m","tag-smoo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13741","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=13741"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13741\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13743,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13741\/revisions\/13743"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}