{"id":14885,"date":"2010-04-21T13:30:52","date_gmt":"2010-04-21T18:30:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/?p=14885"},"modified":"2010-06-21T13:32:27","modified_gmt":"2010-06-21T18:32:27","slug":"wertz-julia-mystery-theater-episode-1-the-human-brain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/?p=14885","title":{"rendered":"Wertz, Julia &#8211; Mystery Theater Episode 1: The Human Brain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/06\/mysterytheater11.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"mysterytheater11\" src=\"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/06\/mysterytheater11.jpg\" alt=\"mysterytheater11\" width=\"329\" height=\"497\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Mystery Theater Episode 1: The Human Brain<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Hey, this isn&#8217;t a fart party!\u00c2\u00a0 It&#8217;s OK, I believe Julia is allowed to  branch out a bit if she wants.\u00c2\u00a0 This is an intensive study of brains,  Julia&#8217;s in particular.\u00c2\u00a0 It starts with a hilarious two page summary of  brains throughout history and why humanity had such a long chunk of time  when no scientific study was possible (hint: it involves the bible).\u00c2\u00a0  My favorite quote out of many good ones: &#8220;Around the late 1890&#8217;s, fancy  tools like the microscope were developed, making brain studies much more  sophisticated than just cutting that shit open and poking around the  mess.&#8221;\u00c2\u00a0 Then we get to the regular comic, which opens with Dr. Watson  (who is apparently a tiny, tiny man) and Sherlock Holmes hoping to study  Julia&#8217;s brain.\u00c2\u00a0 Sadly, the brain has left the building (and I  absolutely love the fact that Julia&#8217;s cartoon head, when popped open,  makes a &#8220;boing&#8221; noise), so the two detectives have to figure out Julia&#8217;s  life from her apartment and belongings.\u00c2\u00a0 They conclude that Julia&#8217;s  brain has helped and hurt her plenty over the years, but I&#8217;m done  describing the contents here as any more will just cheat you out of this  pile of comic goodness.\u00c2\u00a0 I like the new direction, even though it&#8217;s not  a whole lot different from the fart party stuff.\u00c2\u00a0 I also may be one of  the few who hopes she takes one of her fake future subjects listed at  the back of the book and makes it into a comic.\u00c2\u00a0 &#8220;Why On Earth Did You  Ever Think That&#8217;d Be A Good Idea?&#8221; has all kinds of potential.\u00c2\u00a0 No price  listed, but I&#8217;m guessing $2.50 just for the hell of it.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/06\/mysterytheater12.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"mysterytheater12\" src=\"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/06\/mysterytheater12.jpg\" alt=\"mysterytheater12\" width=\"435\" height=\"657\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mystery Theater Episode 1: The Human Brain Hey, this isn&#8217;t a fart party!\u00c2\u00a0 It&#8217;s OK, I believe Julia is allowed to branch out a bit if she wants.\u00c2\u00a0 This is an intensive study of brains, Julia&#8217;s in particular.\u00c2\u00a0 It starts with a hilarious two page summary of brains throughout history and why humanity had such [&hellip;]<\/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":[3436,3437,2362],"class_list":["post-14885","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews","tag-julia-wertz","tag-mystery-theater","tag-the-human-brain"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14885","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=14885"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14885\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14886,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14885\/revisions\/14886"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14885"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14885"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14885"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}