{"id":15656,"date":"2010-07-09T14:47:10","date_gmt":"2010-07-09T19:47:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/?p=15656"},"modified":"2010-07-22T22:44:12","modified_gmt":"2010-07-23T03:44:12","slug":"hill-dan-the-fifty-flip-experiment-13","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/?p=15656","title":{"rendered":"Hill, Dan – The Fifty Flip Experiment #13"},"content":{"rendered":"

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You can tell it’s going to be a great comic when you’re already laughing at the introduction.\u00c2\u00a0 Of course, I was laughing more at my own level of cynicism than anything else, as Dan apologized for being three weeks late with this issue.\u00c2\u00a0 Three weeks!\u00c2\u00a0 That’s a man who’s dedicated to putting his bi-monthly comic out on a bi-monthly basis.\u00c2\u00a0 Does anybody remember why Drawn & Quarterly was named Drawn & Quarterly?\u00c2\u00a0 Hint: it has to do with putting comics of a series out on a quarterly basis.\u00c2\u00a0 I think they kept to that for maybe the first year or so, or at least tried to, before abandoning all pretense of that being the case.\u00c2\u00a0 Of course, according to Dan’s website this is the last issue he’s put out (in September 2009), so maybe regularly putting out comics got to him.\u00c2\u00a0 So how about the comic?\u00c2\u00a0 It seems… fluffier than usual, like he was trying to burn up page space by dragging stories out for pages that could have ended far sooner.\u00c2\u00a0 Not that they’re actively bad stories, but I can see why the man maybe took a break after this one.\u00c2\u00a0 The first half of the comic is a story about an alien coming to earth, something that felt more like a movie of the week than anything else, but he did manage to spice things up a bit, and the fact that schmaltz can be funny helped him out a bit.\u00c2\u00a0 Other stories include a mildly pointless piece about lounging in space, a shortie about a psychiatrist with a good punchline, Spoons for Handsman eats too many Rolos (hey wait a minute, how did he open all those Rolos with spoons for hands?) and a meandering piece about the national conspiracy to hide any evidence of queefs.\u00c2\u00a0 Kids, ask your parents.\u00c2\u00a0 On second thought just use the internet, as asking your parents would be the most uncomfortable conversation of your life.\u00c2\u00a0 Overall there’s still good to be found here, but if he is taking a break from his grueling schedule (and in the context of small press comics I mean that sincerely), I hope he’s working on tightening his game up a bit.\u00c2\u00a0 That and deciding that it’s OK not to have at least one page per comic where you can still see the unerased pencil lines…\u00c2\u00a0 $2<\/p>\n

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Website The Fifty Flip Experiment #13 You can tell it’s going to be a great comic when you’re already laughing at the introduction.\u00c2\u00a0 Of course, I was laughing more at my own level of cynicism than anything else, as Dan apologized for being three weeks late with this issue.\u00c2\u00a0 Three weeks!\u00c2\u00a0 That’s a man who’s […]<\/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":[2915,1289],"class_list":["post-15656","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews","tag-dan-hill","tag-the-fifty-flip-experiment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15656","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=15656"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15656\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16333,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15656\/revisions\/16333"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15656"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15656"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15656"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}