{"id":16975,"date":"2010-08-11T16:16:36","date_gmt":"2010-08-11T21:16:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/?p=16975"},"modified":"2010-08-11T16:16:36","modified_gmt":"2010-08-11T21:16:36","slug":"m-simon-smoo-2-12","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/?p=16975","title":{"rendered":"M., Simon &#8211; Smoo #2 1\/2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/smoo.tumblr.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Website<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/smoo23.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-16976\" title=\"smoo23\" src=\"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/smoo23-207x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"207\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/smoo23-207x300.jpg 207w, https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/smoo23-707x1024.jpg 707w, https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/smoo23.jpg 1704w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 207px) 100vw, 207px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Smoo #2 1\/2<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>What the heck?\u00c2\u00a0 2 and a half?\u00c2\u00a0 That wouldn&#8217;t be so bad, but the next issue in the pile o&#8217; comics Simon sent is a preview of #3.\u00c2\u00a0 I don&#8217;t make the rules or anything, but I&#8217;m pretty sure you&#8217;re not allowed to have two issues between one issue number.\u00c2\u00a0 This one is called the &#8220;odds and sods&#8221; issue, as it supposedly only has bits and pieces of things.\u00c2\u00a0 Still, if you go into this expecting a sketchbook or something without a bit of genuine storytelling, that&#8217;s not the case at all.\u00c2\u00a0 He could have just slapped a &#8220;#3&#8221; on it and I would have been none the wiser.\u00c2\u00a0 Stories in here include a personal rumination on a night spent in a hotel room (and how he was unable to go out and enjoy the town due to feeling guilty about everything), a drunken bar conversation about the baffling behavior of one woman in particular (and the proposed mental sweepers to keep their brains free from &#8220;emotional debris&#8221;), Simon&#8217;s thoughts as utter nothingness, and a winter trip to see Mount Etna in Sicily that seemed to be poorly planned in every way but still a profound experience for him.\u00c2\u00a0 OK, maybe the issue was a bit shorter than his other offerings, so I guess that&#8217;s where the &#8220;1\/2&#8221; comes from.\u00c2\u00a0 I still think he could have gotten away with calling it #3, and if you&#8217;re already a fan of his work this isn&#8217;t something you should miss.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/smoo24.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-16977\" title=\"smoo24\" src=\"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/smoo24-214x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"214\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/smoo24-214x300.jpg 214w, https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/smoo24-731x1024.jpg 731w, https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/smoo24.jpg 1712w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 214px) 100vw, 214px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Website Smoo #2 1\/2 What the heck?\u00c2\u00a0 2 and a half?\u00c2\u00a0 That wouldn&#8217;t be so bad, but the next issue in the pile o&#8217; comics Simon sent is a preview of #3.\u00c2\u00a0 I don&#8217;t make the rules or anything, but I&#8217;m pretty sure you&#8217;re not allowed to have two issues between one issue number.\u00c2\u00a0 This [&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":[2952,1583],"class_list":["post-16975","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews","tag-simon-m","tag-smoo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16975","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=16975"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16975\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16979,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16975\/revisions\/16979"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16975"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16975"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16975"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}