{"id":16905,"date":"2010-07-30T15:08:54","date_gmt":"2010-07-30T20:08:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/?p=16905"},"modified":"2010-07-30T15:08:54","modified_gmt":"2010-07-30T20:08:54","slug":"various-good-minnesotans-good-minnesotan-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/?p=16905","title":{"rendered":"Various Good Minnesotans – Good Minnesotan #4"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I’m in\u00c2\u00a0 a bit of a pickle here.\u00c2\u00a0 You see, the Good Minnesotans responsible for putting this anthology together sent a collection of minis that make up GM #4, all bundled up in a lovely slipcase.\u00c2\u00a0 However, they recently had a successful fundraiser that will let them print this whole pile of comics in (what I believe to be) one volume.\u00c2\u00a0 So my righteous rant about how silly it is to put a table of contents with page listings when there are no page numbers in the comics can’t go anywhere because they will probably have that problem fixed in the final edition.\u00c2\u00a0 That’s fine, there’s no reason to focus on the negative with a pile of\u00c2\u00a0 stories like this anyway.\u00c2\u00a0 It will also make my selection of a sample image from each of the 5 minis seems a little excessive (and guys, if this is too many for you let me know and I’ll take most of them down), but I’m trying to give a flavor for the whole thing here.\u00c2\u00a0 I was also going to break this down into five sections, one for each mini, but as they aren’t numbered in any way I’m just going to go with my usual clumpy review.\u00c2\u00a0 Tales in here include some creepy microscopic organisms by Justin Skarhus, The Poo Lagoon by Lupi (sadly, it seems to be a true story), is it a caraway seed or a rat turd by Sarah Julius (I think), Nic Breutzman as a child watching his neighborhood being built and marveling at the quiet at the end of the day, Kevin Cannon’s recap of the men who tried to be the first to reach the North (and South) Pole, a pile of creepy and moody photographs by Buck Sutter, planting mama with the onions by Anna Bongiovanni, Renny Kissling’s silent tale of an alien being tortured,Meghan Hogan’s adventures of crocheted animals, Martha Iserman with the adventures of her stuffed parrot-beaked puffer fish, and some food thievery by Raighne Hogan.\u00c2\u00a0 There is one mini that stands alone as a complete story, by both Justin Skarlus and Raighne Hogan (each taking half the book) about a terminator-ish creature that doesn’t seem to have much of an ability to stick with one target, but that’s probably because I’m imposing that idea onto that character.\u00c2\u00a0 It’s a bizarre pile of transporting vaginas, submachine guns, brain-eating and quiet contemplation.\u00c2\u00a0 You’d love it!\u00c2\u00a0 So, at the end of the day, I don’t know what the final version of this comic is going to look like.\u00c2\u00a0 I hope they can keep the front and back cover of the slipcase, and I hope they manage to number the pages to go along with their table of contents, and I hope it’s clear that I’m not even commenting on about 1\/3 of the stories in this to leave some surprises for you people.\u00c2\u00a0 If you’ve seen the past issues of this series you know that “Good Minnesotan” is a mark of quality, and they didn’t disappoint this time around.<\/p>\n

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Website Good Minnesotan #4 I’m in\u00c2\u00a0 a bit of a pickle here.\u00c2\u00a0 You see, the Good Minnesotans responsible for putting this anthology together sent a collection of minis that make up GM #4, all bundled up in a lovely slipcase.\u00c2\u00a0 However, they recently had a successful fundraiser that will let them print this whole pile […]<\/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":[4258,4257,3129,4251,4256,2291,4253,3363,3136,3376,4248,4249,4254,4255,3366,4252,3362,4259,4250,3133,2693],"class_list":["post-16905","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews","tag-anna-bongiovanni","tag-buck-sutter","tag-ed-choy-moorman","tag-emily-kaplan","tag-eric-ruby","tag-good-minnesotan","tag-joshana-anderson","tag-justin-skarhus","tag-kevin-cannon","tag-luke-holden","tag-lupi","tag-maddie-quiripel","tag-martha-iserman","tag-matt-wells","tag-meghan-hogan","tag-nic-breutzman","tag-raighne-hogan","tag-renny-kissling","tag-sarah-julius","tag-toby-jones","tag-will-dinski"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16905","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=16905"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16905\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16913,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16905\/revisions\/16913"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16905"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16905"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}