{"id":14720,"date":"2010-06-11T16:23:16","date_gmt":"2010-06-11T21:23:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/?p=14720"},"modified":"2010-07-22T22:44:17","modified_gmt":"2010-07-23T03:44:17","slug":"croston-derek-r-unicorns-changed-my-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/?p=14720","title":{"rendered":"Croston, Derek R. – Unicorns Changed My Life"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I really shouldn’t like this comic.\u00c2\u00a0 There are at least a few reasons I could point to for that reaction that I should have had but didn’t.\u00c2\u00a0 There’s the backgrounds (dots, fuzzy clouds and four strands of grass in a field, lazy things like that), the fact that I could see pencil lines poking through for some of the wording, and the fact that the cover artist was not the inside artist.\u00c2\u00a0 Still, those sparse backgrounds worked, the pencil lines were few and far between, and again, the simple nature of the artwork worked just fine for this.\u00c2\u00a0 It’s probably because he’s didn’t misspell a thing, that’s probably what gets him off the hook with me.\u00c2\u00a0 Or the fact that this comic was just a pile of fun, and I wasn’t expecting that after seeing the cover.\u00c2\u00a0 I figured grim, macho murder a’plenty, but that wasn’t the case.\u00c2\u00a0 Things start off here with an odd cast of characters in what appears to be a support group: a centaur, a harmless ghost, an archangel, a grigori, somebody who was once the leader of Iris (whatever that means, and if you’re going to put a “*” in your dialogue please don’t forget to follow up on it), and our hero, the first vampire in the world.\u00c2\u00a0 He was basically just born with one giant tooth, but that still got him chased out of town.\u00c2\u00a0 He had to hunt to survive, and once he started hunting unicorns he got immortal life.\u00c2\u00a0 There’s more, including a really fantastic ending, but I don’t want to blow anything.\u00c2\u00a0 If this all sounds grim, trust me, it’s not.\u00c2\u00a0 There’s a smart-ass vibe running through this comic that elevates it to something more than the usual fare.\u00c2\u00a0 I’m not saying it’s the best comic in the world, as it’s still plenty raw, with at least a few easy fixes for the next issue to make it better.\u00c2\u00a0 Still, it was fun, and that counts for a lot.\u00c2\u00a0 $1<\/p>\n

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