{"id":14335,"date":"2010-05-04T16:21:26","date_gmt":"2010-05-04T21:21:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/?p=14335"},"modified":"2010-07-22T22:44:23","modified_gmt":"2010-07-23T03:44:23","slug":"bertino-mike-trigger-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/?p=14335","title":{"rendered":"Bertino, Mike – Trigger #1"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Trigger #1<\/strong><\/p>\n

To everyone who has the Mike’s original trigger series in mini comic form (unless it was collected and I never heard about it): this comic has nothing to do with the other Trigger series.\u00c2\u00a0 Or at least it doesn’t in any way that I can see, but it has been a few years since I read that series.\u00c2\u00a0 This comic, is everything that is good about comics.\u00c2\u00a0 Click on that cover just to see how impressive it is (go ahead, treat yourself).\u00c2\u00a0 As for the comic itself, there are three stories, and it’s been ages since I’ve seen a comic where the pieces involved are so absolutely different from each other.\u00c2\u00a0 The first story is called Grown Ups and it seems to be the only one of the pack that is going to be continued later.\u00c2\u00a0 It’s all about the first day of a young teacher who has moved over from teaching P.E. and has gone onto history, his interactions with his students and his meeting a fellow teacher out for drinks.\u00c2\u00a0 That other teacher also had a couple of ladies with him, one of them seems to take a shine to our hero (named Conrad), and things progress from there, right into an excellent cliffhanger.\u00c2\u00a0 I’ve said this before with series that ended after one issue, but seriously: don’t leave me hanging here, OK?\u00c2\u00a0 The second story is hilarious, and a complete shift from the first piece.\u00c2\u00a0 It deals with two friends (one of whom has the hots on the waitress at their favorite bar), a waitress set on revenge, a gullible lunkhead of a bartender and some drunk teenagers.\u00c2\u00a0 Again, do y0urself a favor and embiggen that sample image.\u00c2\u00a0 Finally there’s Below Us, a dead serious tale about a young man who is getting messages through a new plate in his head and how it forces him to deal with some issues in his past.\u00c2\u00a0 Again, it’s damned rare for the first piece of a comic to be serious with a touch of humor, followed by (that rarest of things) a laugh out loud story, and capped off by a serious story dealing with past abuse and learning to live with it.\u00c2\u00a0 There are a misspelled word or two, as I’m legally required to point that out, but leaving that aside this is a damned near flawless comic.\u00c2\u00a0 If you’ve read Mike’s stuff over the years and maybe weren’t that impressed, or were confused because you only caught part of a larger story, check this one out.\u00c2\u00a0 It’s self-contained and brilliant.\u00c2\u00a0 $5<\/p>\n

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Website Publisher’s website Trigger #1 To everyone who has the Mike’s original trigger series in mini comic form (unless it was collected and I never heard about it): this comic has nothing to do with the other Trigger series.\u00c2\u00a0 Or at least it doesn’t in any way that I can see, but it has been […]<\/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":[2517,664],"class_list":["post-14335","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews","tag-mike-bertino","tag-trigger"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14335","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=14335"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14335\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16394,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14335\/revisions\/16394"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}