{"id":13846,"date":"2010-05-02T10:15:41","date_gmt":"2010-05-02T15:15:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/?p=13846"},"modified":"2010-07-22T22:45:25","modified_gmt":"2010-07-23T03:45:25","slug":"miller-rob-editor-khaki-shorts-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/?p=13846","title":{"rendered":"Miller, Rob (editor) – Khaki Shorts #2"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Khaki Shorts #2<\/strong><\/p>\n

Technically this is apparently the second edition of this series, but it’s only notable to people (not me) who have seen the other stuff, so I’m just calling it #2.\u00c2\u00a0 Just on the off-chance that anybody was worried about that.\u00c2\u00a0 This is an anthology of various folks in the UK, there is no table of contents and some of the stories aren’t labelled, so I’m going to go with my best guesses.\u00c2\u00a0 First up is a piece by Shug 90 called The Wildebeests, dealing with conspiracies over the years while substituting animals for the humans.\u00c2\u00a0 Hey, it’s funnier than it sounds.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 Next up is an ongoing story by John Miller called Star Trudge, and if you were guessing you had a 50\/50 shot of getting it right: it’s a parody of Star Trek.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 Once again it’s funny stuff (and I’m sensing a trend), as the Captain starts off waking up to a drunken crew and has a series of adventures throughout the book.\u00c2\u00a0 Float by Martin & Adam Smith is next, which is about some guys who wake up, um, floating.\u00c2\u00a0 It’s a long way to go for a poop joke, but at least it’s a funny poop joke.\u00c2\u00a0 Generic Street by Alrite Miller (no, I don’t know if that is Rob or John either) is next, and this piece breaks the trend by not being funny but instead being extremely odd.\u00c2\u00a0 There’s some genuinely odd imagery in here to go with word balloons coming from arms, and I’m not even going to try to explain it. Following this is the story from the cover, which immediately follows their story from the last issue, which leaves the reader a bit lost.\u00c2\u00a0 The hyper-inflated superhero team and the incompetent archenemy bit looked like it had some potential, but three pages was way too short to get much of an idea.\u00c2\u00a0 John Miller has a piece up next that makes me a bit dizzy to think about, as that panel structure was all over the place, and I’m frankly not entirely sure what was going on there.\u00c2\u00a0 Dollyforce 2020 (by Adam Smith)follows and it’s the longest piece in the book, dealing with a group of kids and an adult trying to free their grandma from a small army of robots, all being controlled by a man with a crush.\u00c2\u00a0 It meandered a bit but really came together in the end.\u00c2\u00a0 There are two more short pieces by Rob Miller and one on the back cover by John Miller, but I’m leaving them a surprise for when you pick up this book for yourselves.\u00c2\u00a0 Have I mentioned that it’s consistently funny?\u00c2\u00a0 And when it’s not funny it’s thoroughly bizarre and inventive.\u00c2\u00a0 I’ve felt all day vaguely like I got hit by a truck, so I apologize if this isn’t up to my usual standards, whatever they are.\u00c2\u00a0 I just wanted to make it perfectly clear: you will not regret getting this comic.\u00c2\u00a0 That is all.<\/p>\n

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Website Khaki Shorts #2 Technically this is apparently the second edition of this series, but it’s only notable to people (not me) who have seen the other stuff, so I’m just calling it #2.\u00c2\u00a0 Just on the off-chance that anybody was worried about that.\u00c2\u00a0 This is an anthology of various folks in the UK, there […]<\/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":[3851,3852,3847,1690,3850,3849],"class_list":["post-13846","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews","tag-adam-smith","tag-alrite-miller","tag-john-miller","tag-khaki-shorts","tag-martin-smith","tag-rob-miller"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13846","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=13846"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13846\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13849,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13846\/revisions\/13849"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13846"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13846"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}