{"id":17076,"date":"2010-08-26T14:33:09","date_gmt":"2010-08-26T19:33:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/?p=17076"},"modified":"2010-08-26T14:33:09","modified_gmt":"2010-08-26T19:33:09","slug":"allain-david-brown-vv-price-emma-the-city-of-abacus-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/?p=17076","title":{"rendered":"Allain, David; Brown, VV; Price, Emma – The City of Abacus #1"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The City of Abacus #1<\/strong><\/p>\n

You know what I like to see in a small press comics series?\u00c2\u00a0 Other than talent, writing that will blow my socks off and genuinely innovative concepts, that is?\u00c2\u00a0 Ambition.\u00c2\u00a0 This series is trying to put out 7 issues between May and November (and they only have 2 on their website as of the end of August, so it’s not looking good), followed immediately by a graphic novel.\u00c2\u00a0 Here’s a tip for other people who are trying to pull this off: try to have a few issues “in the bag” before you announce such a plan.\u00c2\u00a0 That way you have 6 months to produce 3 or 4 issues instead of 7 and everybody goes away impressed at how forward-thinking you are.\u00c2\u00a0 Anyway, nobody ever meets their deadlines in this business anyway, so it’s not that big of a deal.\u00c2\u00a0 How about the comic?\u00c2\u00a0 Well, this is clearly the start of something much, MUCH grander in scale, so I am instantly not allowed to complain about any of the little things that could have used more explanation.\u00c2\u00a0 They’ll get around to them later, or I will complain at the appropriate time.\u00c2\u00a0 This is the story of a society that has gone creatively stagnant, as once a week a computer scans the mind of all the citizens and removes any dangerous thoughts.\u00c2\u00a0 In this issue we meet the daughter of the man who built this computer ages ago and abandoned her (why she is allowed to keep potentially subversive memorabilia isn’t explained, but I’m sure they’ll get to it), another man who is leading what seems to be a one person resistance, and something that looks kind of like a winged monkey.\u00c2\u00a0 It’s off to an intriguing start, but that’s the trouble with reviewing something like this: it is clearly just a start.\u00c2\u00a0 I will say that they may have given too much away with the synopsis on the back cover and possibly even with the character descriptions, but that is only if it all goes in the direction that I’m thinking.\u00c2\u00a0 Oh, and if “VV Brown” sounds familiar, that’s because she’s a fairly famous as a singer.\u00c2\u00a0 Go ahead, hit You Tube and search for “Shark in the Water”.\u00c2\u00a0 You’ll have that song stuck in your head (in a good way) for days…\u00c2\u00a0 $5ish<\/p>\n

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Website The City of Abacus #1 You know what I like to see in a small press comics series?\u00c2\u00a0 Other than talent, writing that will blow my socks off and genuinely innovative concepts, that is?\u00c2\u00a0 Ambition.\u00c2\u00a0 This series is trying to put out 7 issues between May and November (and they only have 2 on […]<\/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":[4298,4299,4300,4297],"class_list":["post-17076","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews","tag-davd-allain","tag-emma-price","tag-the-city-of-abacus","tag-vv-brown"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17076","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=17076"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17076\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17080,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17076\/revisions\/17080"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17076"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17076"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17076"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}