{"id":14549,"date":"2010-05-18T13:05:15","date_gmt":"2010-05-18T18:05:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/?p=14549"},"modified":"2010-07-22T22:44:21","modified_gmt":"2010-07-23T03:44:21","slug":"gibbons-jeff-the-death-and-damnation-of-pretty-jeff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/?p=14549","title":{"rendered":"Gibbons, Jeff – The Death and Damnation of Pretty Jeff"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The Death and Damnation of Pretty Jeff<\/strong><\/p>\n

Here’s to taking the mystery out of comic titles!\u00c2\u00a0 Seriously, you already have a pretty good clue as to what this comic is about.\u00c2\u00a0 “Pretty Jeff” (a stand-in for the creator Jeff, or a huge coincidence?) is riding a roller coaster, said roller coaster crashes to the ground, and he “wakes up” to see death hovering over him.\u00c2\u00a0 From there we’re treated to exactly how pathetic the life of Pretty Jeff was (death was watching for his whole life but ended up just cutting and pasting the same pictures of him playing video games and watching tv as the recap of his life), the reason why Pretty Jeff was going to hell, the suggestion box in hell, watching the big entertainment in hell (watching Hitler get tortured in various ways), meeting Satan and learning the conditions of his captivity.\u00c2\u00a0 These were clearly done as either daily or weekly strips, as they all have the same format and all end in some form of a punchline.\u00c2\u00a0 Still, kudos to Jeff for keeping the “previously on” recaps short and having them make sense in the context of each comic.\u00c2\u00a0 This comic also switches over to full color after the first half of the book (guessing that’s when he changed the strip online and kept it for the collected edition, but who knows?), and ends on a two part story that you fold down.\u00c2\u00a0 That part of things is an unsightly mess, but as the glue only makes the back cover look all crumpled and weird it’s not the biggest deal in the world.\u00c2\u00a0 So: a funny collection of short pieces that add up to a greater whole, combined with an excellently anti-climatic ending.\u00c2\u00a0 No sir, no bitching from me at all.\u00c2\u00a0 No price, but as this gets all colorized about halfway through I’m guessing $4.<\/p>\n

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Website The Death and Damnation of Pretty Jeff Here’s to taking the mystery out of comic titles!\u00c2\u00a0 Seriously, you already have a pretty good clue as to what this comic is about.\u00c2\u00a0 “Pretty Jeff” (a stand-in for the creator Jeff, or a huge coincidence?) is riding a roller coaster, said roller coaster crashes to the […]<\/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":[4139,4138],"class_list":["post-14549","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews","tag-jeff-gibbons","tag-the-death-and-damnation-of-pretty-jeff"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14549","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=14549"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14549\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16381,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14549\/revisions\/16381"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}