{"id":15301,"date":"2010-04-23T13:37:02","date_gmt":"2010-04-23T18:37:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/?p=15301"},"modified":"2010-06-23T13:37:54","modified_gmt":"2010-06-23T18:37:54","slug":"connor-leighton-esoterica-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/?p=15301","title":{"rendered":"Connor, Leighton &#8211; Esoterica #2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bewilderingstories.com\/issue171\/connor_welcome.html\" target=\"_blank\">Website<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/images\/esoterica21.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" hspace=\"0\" align=\"bottom\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Esoterica #2<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>One of these days I&#8217;ll learn that trying to keep track of a story when I only see a new issue once a year is an iffy proposition at best. Maybe if I had any kind of order to my comic piles I&#8217;d be able to grab back issues&#8230; but I digress, as I usually do. If you read the review for #1, you&#8217;ll see that I thought this had a lot of potential, so has that been realized here? Well, sort of, but this is obviously a long story, and it&#8217;s one of those cases where I&#8217;m not going to be sure about that until it&#8217;s over. In this one most of the characters from the last issue find themselves in an alien universe, with a handy-dandy guide to let them know a lot of the important facts about the place. There&#8217;s an alien on the planet who needs to sacrifice them to his god in order to save his people, and (not to give anything away), I&#8217;m REALLY intrigued by the god, who we do get to see. Other than that, the art is solid, the writing is fine (although some of the dialogue isn&#8217;t great), and I&#8217;m still cautiously optimistic as to where this whole thing is heading. Contact info is up there, this one&#8217;s $3!<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/images\/esoterica22.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" hspace=\"0\" align=\"bottom\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Website Esoterica #2 One of these days I&#8217;ll learn that trying to keep track of a story when I only see a new issue once a year is an iffy proposition at best. Maybe if I had any kind of order to my comic piles I&#8217;d be able to grab back issues&#8230; but I digress, [&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":[876,2632],"class_list":["post-15301","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews","tag-esoterica","tag-leighton-connor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15301","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=15301"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15301\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15302,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15301\/revisions\/15302"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}