{"id":13823,"date":"2010-05-03T14:54:34","date_gmt":"2010-05-03T19:54:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/?p=13823"},"modified":"2010-07-22T22:44:24","modified_gmt":"2010-07-23T03:44:24","slug":"norhanian-aaron-bad-energy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/?p=13823","title":{"rendered":"Norhanian, Aaron – Bad Energy"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Aaron asked me in his letter to be brutally honest in this review, so I’ll start off with my main problem with the book: the utter lack of contact information.\u00c2\u00a0 It’s a moot point for me, as he included his name and website with the book, but always, ALWAYS assume that somebody somewhere is going to see your comic at a store, or see it sitting at your table during a con (during the five minutes you leave your table).\u00c2\u00a0 They’ll pick it up, chances are with other comics (at either a store or a con, as who only buys one comic?),\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 and when they read it later they might check online for some of their favorites, but comics like this with no information of any kind get set aside and forgotten.\u00c2\u00a0 Go ahead, try just searching for “Bad Energy” online.\u00c2\u00a0 The closest you get is the “Gimme Shelter” logo on the back, which happens to be more or less the name of his blog.\u00c2\u00a0 So: always include some kind of contact information somewhere in your comic!\u00c2\u00a0 Now that I have that out of the way, on to the other things I didn’t like.\u00c2\u00a0 There was… hm.\u00c2\u00a0 Nope, I pretty much liked the comic itself.\u00c2\u00a0 This is the story of The Cartoonist, constantly belittled by life for his silly “hobby”, always managing to go on in a world of negative energy and contempt for him.\u00c2\u00a0 All of this energy ends up in his comic, with disastrous consequences for the rest of the world.\u00c2\u00a0 This was a thoroughly engaging “fuck you” to the rest of the world.\u00c2\u00a0 The art was fantastic (I suppose it is possible to go wrong with brains flying out of the back of the head due to reading comics, but Aaron depicts it beautifully), the story wrapped itself up nicely and the whole thing was the perfect length.\u00c2\u00a0 Not too much to complain about, is there?\u00c2\u00a0 So you have my one complaint that has nothing to do with the content of the book, then my unreserved praise for the rest of it.\u00c2\u00a0 Make up your own minds.\u00c2\u00a0 Oh, and there is no price, which is also a pet peeve of mine, but somehow significantly more minor.\u00c2\u00a0 I’m guessing $2 for no reason at all.<\/p>\n

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Website Bad Energy Aaron asked me in his letter to be brutally honest in this review, so I’ll start off with my main problem with the book: the utter lack of contact information.\u00c2\u00a0 It’s a moot point for me, as he included his name and website with the book, but always, ALWAYS assume that somebody […]<\/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":[3843,3842],"class_list":["post-13823","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews","tag-aaron-norhanian","tag-bad-energy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13823","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=13823"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13823\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16399,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13823\/revisions\/16399"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}