{"id":15530,"date":"2010-04-23T16:14:41","date_gmt":"2010-04-23T21:14:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/?p=15530"},"modified":"2010-06-23T16:16:00","modified_gmt":"2010-06-23T21:16:00","slug":"kiersh-dave-a-last-cry-for-help","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/?p=15530","title":{"rendered":"Kiersh, Dave &#8211; A Last Cry For Help"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.davekcomics.com\/\">Website<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/lastcry1.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>A Last Cry For Help<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I regret to inform you that I have no idea which issues of Last Cry  For Help make up this comic.\u00c2\u00a0 I looked and looked online (and found it  at Amazon and Bodega Distribution) but nobody seems interested in  listing where the individual bits of this came from.\u00c2\u00a0 Ah well, what  difference does it make?\u00c2\u00a0 Unless you obsessively follow everything Dave  has done over the last ten years, at least some of this is going to be  new to you.\u00c2\u00a0 If you scroll down you&#8217;ll see that I&#8217;ve read plenty of what  he&#8217;s done and at least half of it seemed new to me.\u00c2\u00a0 Or maybe it&#8217;s just  because I read most of this stuff four years ago and have a lousy  memory?\u00c2\u00a0 In any case, from what I&#8217;ve been able to gather this is  essentially a ten year retrospective of Dave&#8217;s comics, with one page  stories thrown in with about a dozen longer bits.\u00c2\u00a0 Mostly the best of  teenage awkwardness, with stories involving a young girl not really  wanting to be making out on the beach, two young guys getting drunk and  smashed their parent&#8217;s car, a pregnant woman stuck in prison, the merits  of fantasy life versus actual life, drunken dancing, a lonely waitress,  a humiliating Halloween and more than a few sexy nurses.\u00c2\u00a0 If you  haven&#8217;t read Dave&#8217;s stuff I can&#8217;t think of a better introduction, and if  you have this is damn fine collection.\u00c2\u00a0 Few people out there cover  awkwardness and loneliness better than he does, all while never veering  completely over into whiny self-indulgence.\u00c2\u00a0 $10<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/lastcry2.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Website A Last Cry For Help I regret to inform you that I have no idea which issues of Last Cry For Help make up this comic.\u00c2\u00a0 I looked and looked online (and found it at Amazon and Bodega Distribution) but nobody seems interested in listing where the individual bits of this came from.\u00c2\u00a0 Ah [&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":[2985,2713],"class_list":["post-15530","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews","tag-a-last-cry-for-help","tag-dave-kiersh"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15530","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=15530"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15530\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15534,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15530\/revisions\/15534"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}