{"id":14885,"date":"2010-04-21T13:30:52","date_gmt":"2010-04-21T18:30:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/?p=14885"},"modified":"2026-06-18T12:19:00","modified_gmt":"2026-06-18T17:19:00","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! It&#8217;s OK, I believe Julia is allowed to branch out a bit if she wants. This is an intensive study of brains, Julia&#8217;s in particular. 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). 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; 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. 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. 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. I like the new direction, even though it&#8217;s not a whole lot different from the fart party stuff. 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. &#8220;Why On Earth Did You Ever Think That&#8217;d Be A Good Idea?&#8221; has all kinds of potential. 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! It&#8217;s OK, I believe Julia is allowed to branch out a bit if she wants. This is an intensive study of brains, Julia&#8217;s in particular. 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":2,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14885\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29640,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14885\/revisions\/29640"}],"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}]}}