{"id":13833,"date":"2010-05-02T10:03:56","date_gmt":"2010-05-02T15:03:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/?p=13833"},"modified":"2010-07-22T22:45:26","modified_gmt":"2010-07-23T03:45:26","slug":"miello-tony-gapo-the-clown-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/?p=13833","title":{"rendered":"Miello, Tony &#8211; Gapo the Clown #1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gapotheclown.com\/\">Website<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/images\/gapo11.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" hspace=\"0\" align=\"bottom\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Gapo the Clown #1<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Oh look, another comic about a drunk, gassy clown. Hilarious! I wasn&#8217;t expecting much from that cover (this was one of my blind grabs at SPACE &#8217;07) and, well, I didn&#8217;t get much. About half of the tiny mini comic contains &#8220;stories&#8221; while the rest is sketchbook pages and the like, so you&#8217;re really not getting your moneys worth even if you like this type of thing. As for the actual content, Gapo burps, farts, shits his pants to top a farting baby, beats up an old lady for her denture cream, and pukes. Not a whole lot to analyze, really. That either sounds hilarious to you or not, I&#8217;m not going to be able to say much here to convince you either way. The art looks sloppy and rushed, and don&#8217;t get me started on the &#8220;you&#8217;re\/your&#8221; problems. My only hope for this as a concept was that it was something Tony tried (he says in the intro that he did the character as therapy after watching too many children&#8217;s shows) and moved on to bigger and better things, but one look at the website kills that hope. Gapo is a twice weekly webcomic, and if you&#8217;re intrigued there are pages and pages of free archives. It does look better than the art in the comic, and he&#8217;s expanded his cast of characters (Gapo is apparently doing a children&#8217;s show now), but the punchlines are the same: burping, farting, and puking. At least he&#8217;s trying an actual story there, if I have to say something nice about this. Recommended if you&#8217;re 12 or have the sense of humor of someone who&#8217;s 12&#8230; $1<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/images\/gapo12.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" hspace=\"0\" align=\"bottom\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Website Gapo the Clown #1 Oh look, another comic about a drunk, gassy clown. Hilarious! I wasn&#8217;t expecting much from that cover (this was one of my blind grabs at SPACE &#8217;07) and, well, I didn&#8217;t get much. About half of the tiny mini comic contains &#8220;stories&#8221; while the rest is sketchbook pages and the [&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":[1681,3845],"class_list":["post-13833","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews","tag-gapo-the-clown","tag-tony-miello"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13833","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=13833"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13833\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13836,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13833\/revisions\/13836"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13833"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13833"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13833"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}