{"id":17014,"date":"2010-08-17T13:58:55","date_gmt":"2010-08-17T18:58:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/?p=17014"},"modified":"2010-08-17T13:58:55","modified_gmt":"2010-08-17T18:58:55","slug":"sahagian-mark-schmuck-14-blue-plate-special","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/?p=17014","title":{"rendered":"Sahagian, Mark – Schmuck #14 – Blue Plate Special"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Oh makers of small press comics, will you never learn?\u00c2\u00a0 How do you expect to sell your comics if you don’t list them on your website?\u00c2\u00a0 Granted, Mark does have a nice site with all kinds of samples (including the first half of this book, if you’re curious),. but how are you supposed to get a copy of this, or anything else he’s done?\u00c2\u00a0 How are you even supposed to know WHAT he’s done?\u00c2\u00a0 It’s baffling to me.\u00c2\u00a0 And really, I just pulled that title from the slew of words on the cover and hope that I put them in something approximating the correct order.\u00c2\u00a0 I wasn’t a fan of the other comic of his I got at SPACE (listed as a #3, meaning that there are theoretically plenty of issues that are nowhere to be found), but this one had its moments.\u00c2\u00a0 It’s an 8 page shortie dealing with the wonders of working in a fast food restaurant.\u00c2\u00a0 Is “restaurant” too strong a word?\u00c2\u00a0 Probably.\u00c2\u00a0 Anyway, the experience is as bad as you think, unless you’ve worked at one yourself, in which case you already know all about it.\u00c2\u00a0 Highlights include Melvin getting his good mood crushed right out of him, giving the customer the receipt, the internal dialogue while talking to customers, the “joy” of the day being over, and trying to figure out what it all means.\u00c2\u00a0 This might have been a series of one page strips, as there’s no real linear flow of a coherent story going on, but the tenuous connection is enough.\u00c2\u00a0 Here’s hoping that more of his comics are like this one than #3, but judging from this and the samples on his site I’m going to have to revise my opinion of the man upward.\u00c2\u00a0 Now if there was only some way for you to order his comics without just sending him an e-mail and seeing what he has laying around…<\/p>\n

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Website Schmuck #14 – Blue Plate Special Oh makers of small press comics, will you never learn?\u00c2\u00a0 How do you expect to sell your comics if you don’t list them on your website?\u00c2\u00a0 Granted, Mark does have a nice site with all kinds of samples (including the first half of this book, if you’re curious),. […]<\/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":[3777,4140,4284],"class_list":["post-17014","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews","tag-blue-plate-special","tag-mark-sahagian","tag-schmuck"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17014","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=17014"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17014\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17018,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17014\/revisions\/17018"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17014"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17014"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17014"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}