{"id":14520,"date":"2010-05-13T16:54:59","date_gmt":"2010-05-13T21:54:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/?p=14520"},"modified":"2010-07-22T22:44:21","modified_gmt":"2010-07-23T03:44:21","slug":"farmer-gloria-gold-and-blue-and-gray","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/?p=14520","title":{"rendered":"Farmer, Gloria – Gold and Blue and Gray"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I lost the thread with this comic early on and never seemed to pick it back up.\u00c2\u00a0 The maddening thing is that I think there was a really great comic in here, but I just wasn’t able to piece it together from what I was given.\u00c2\u00a0 Or I wasn’t able to piece it together because on this particular day I couldn’t keep up with it; I’ve been reviewing these things long enough to know that the fault can easily lie with me.\u00c2\u00a0 How do I explain this so it makes sense to somebody who hasn’t seen the comic… Well, there’s that sample below.\u00c2\u00a0 That’s the first page of the comic.\u00c2\u00a0 Go ahead and click on it, read it and come back here.\u00c2\u00a0 Done?\u00c2\u00a0 OK.\u00c2\u00a0 From what I was able to tell, a young man was watching, went outside because he was concerned about his dog, had his dog rip off his face and then turned into the dog, all this being watched from high above.\u00c2\u00a0 Huh?\u00c2\u00a0 The next page starts with the message “20 minutes earlier”, so the theory is that we’ll go back and have this all make sense, but it ends up making it even more confusing.\u00c2\u00a0 The dog is given birth to by a sunbeam shining into a pool (so I guess it wasn’t really that guy’s dog?), an irate Facebook friend transforms into a gigantic tentacled anime rape machine, the naked man on a leash is shown to be another man entirely (?), and the skeleton is removed whole from the fat anime thing.\u00c2\u00a0 That’s the tame version of events.\u00c2\u00a0 Still, it’s impossible to discount entirely, as her idea to use a fake message board conversation as a backdrop to all this chaos was brilliant (and hilarious).\u00c2\u00a0 And did I menti0n that that wasn’t even the main story of the comic?\u00c2\u00a0 That would be the first chapter of The Incarnation of Mayonezu Kuchibirum, which makes the first story seem downright linear.\u00c2\u00a0 This one has lots of sex, a narrator who knows how the lead character is going to die, a 12th birthday party where fucking the birthday boy against his will is apparently the thing to do, and all of this theoretically takes place in hell (which looks kind of like an apple core, hence the name of the comics company).\u00c2\u00a0 Again, impossible to discount, as there’s also a Spanish Inquisition rap in here that is one of the funnier things you’re likely to see.\u00c2\u00a0 So what does this all add up to?\u00c2\u00a0 I didn’t know what the hell was going on more often than not, but there were also flashes of (the most overused word in the language, but it happens to be true) brilliance.\u00c2\u00a0 Maybe this comic didn’t work completely or maybe it was just me, but either way I’m VERY interested to see what Gloria comes up with next.<\/p>\n

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Website Gold and Blue and Gray I lost the thread with this comic early on and never seemed to pick it back up.\u00c2\u00a0 The maddening thing is that I think there was a really great comic in here, but I just wasn’t able to piece it together from what I was given.\u00c2\u00a0 Or I wasn’t […]<\/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":[4134,4135],"class_list":["post-14520","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews","tag-gloria-farmer","tag-gold-and-blue-and-gray"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14520","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=14520"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14520\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16385,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14520\/revisions\/16385"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}