{"id":14111,"date":"2010-05-02T18:27:18","date_gmt":"2010-05-02T23:27:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/?p=14111"},"modified":"2010-07-22T22:44:30","modified_gmt":"2010-07-23T03:44:30","slug":"various-alternative-comics-anthologies-rosetta","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/?p=14111","title":{"rendered":"Various Alternative Comics Anthologies – Rosetta"},"content":{"rendered":"

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It’s actually called Rosetta: A Comics Anthology, but you all get that, right? As for the book, it’s pretty much your average anthology, in that some of it is great (John Porcellino, Marc Bell, David Collier, Ron Rege), some of it is not so great (James Kochalka) and some of it is downright incomprehensible (M.S. Bastian, Renee French). Don’t get me wrong, I usually love James Kochalka’s stuff, it’s just that I really didn’t need to see the breakdown of one of his diary pages. Isn’t it self-explanatory enough as it is? Overall the whole thing is definitely worth a look, as more of the pieces are good than not and the production of this book was pretty amazing. It looks great. Unfortunately, that great look makes it $20, unless you go to Amazon quick and get it before they take the discount off. Another good thing about this is that there’s a lot of international talent, something we don’t see enough of in general. One problem I had was with Megan Kelso’s story. Don’t get me wrong, I loved it, it’s just that it was the length of a regular comic and it seemed sort of out of place in this setting. I say this fully knowing that I’m going to get her collected story when it comes out… Anyway, worth a look, but I’ve seen too many great anthologies this week already to get too excited over this.<\/p>\n

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Website Rosetta It’s actually called Rosetta: A Comics Anthology, but you all get that, right? As for the book, it’s pretty much your average anthology, in that some of it is great (John Porcellino, Marc Bell, David Collier, Ron Rege), some of it is not so great (James Kochalka) and some of it is downright […]<\/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":[3599,2182,1475,4027,2507,2805,2790,2900,2283],"class_list":["post-14111","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews","tag-david-collier","tag-james-kochalka","tag-john-porcellino","tag-m-s-bastian","tag-marc-bell","tag-megan-kelso","tag-renee-french","tag-ron-rege","tag-rosetta"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14111","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=14111"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14111\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16436,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14111\/revisions\/16436"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}