{"id":13747,"date":"2010-04-28T01:15:19","date_gmt":"2010-04-28T06:15:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/?p=13747"},"modified":"2010-07-22T22:45:29","modified_gmt":"2010-07-23T03:45:29","slug":"madden-matt-a-fine-mess","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/?p=13747","title":{"rendered":"Madden, Matt &#8211; A Fine Mess"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mattmadden.com\/\">Website<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/images\/afinemess1.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" width=\"312\" height=\"367\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>A Fine Mess<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Regular comic series being put out by any of the &#8220;major&#8221; independent  comic publishers these days are almost extinct, so it&#8217;s great to see any  additions at all. It&#8217;s even better when the new book is almost  thoroughly enjoyable. The only part I didn&#8217;t like was the &#8220;Exercises in  Style&#8221; bit at the end where he told the same story several times using  different cartooning styles. I didn&#8217;t even hate that, it just kind of  bugged me for some reason. It&#8217;s interesting in theory, and I can see why  he would want to experiment, I was just bored. The rest of the book was  great. The opening story was in SPX 2001, so if you&#8217;ve read that you  know what I&#8217;m talking about. The bulk of the book was about the last  night in town of one man and what he does with it. A fascinating, real  story about how some things just don&#8217;t get worked out. Sure, it&#8217;s about a  lot more than that, I&#8217;m just projecting here. Visit his <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mattmadden.com\/\">website<\/a> for ordering info and bug him to keep putting these out while you&#8217;re at  it&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/images\/afinemess2.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" width=\"474\" height=\"666\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Website A Fine Mess Regular comic series being put out by any of the &#8220;major&#8221; independent comic publishers these days are almost extinct, so it&#8217;s great to see any additions at all. It&#8217;s even better when the new book is almost thoroughly enjoyable. The only part I didn&#8217;t like was the &#8220;Exercises in Style&#8221; bit [&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":[1585,3806],"class_list":["post-13747","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews","tag-a-fine-mess","tag-matt-madden"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13747","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=13747"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13747\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13749,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13747\/revisions\/13749"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13747"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13747"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13747"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}