{"id":17505,"date":"2010-11-21T17:26:11","date_gmt":"2010-11-21T23:26:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/?p=17505"},"modified":"2010-11-21T17:26:11","modified_gmt":"2010-11-21T23:26:11","slug":"various-anthologies-team-girl-comic-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/?p=17505","title":{"rendered":"Various Anthologies &#8211; Team Girl Comic #2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/teamgirlcomic.tumblr.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Website<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/teamgirl21.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-17507\" title=\"teamgirl21\" src=\"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/teamgirl21-207x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"207\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/teamgirl21-207x300.jpg 207w, https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/teamgirl21-709x1024.jpg 709w, https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/teamgirl21.jpg 1720w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 207px) 100vw, 207px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Team Girl Comic #2<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Go Team Girl go!\u00c2\u00a0 Sorry to give away the ending of the review so quickly, but I&#8217;m all for increasing the role of women in comics, as there isn&#8217;t a thing wrong with getting some new perspectives on the genre.\u00c2\u00a0 Not like there haven&#8217;t already been women in comics for ages, but you know what I mean.\u00c2\u00a0 Or you don&#8217;t, and I don&#8217;t have the energy to explain it to you.\u00c2\u00a0 Anyway, this issue has even more stories this time around, with a fairly persistent theme of zombie and how to identify them\/protect yourself .\u00c2\u00a0 The only problem is that while all pieces seem to have some indication of their creator, it&#8217;s often in the form of a signature, making it a pure guessing game as to who is responsible for what. Ah well, I&#8217;m starting to get convinced that chaos is a badge of honor in anthologies.\u00c2\u00a0 Stories include Gill Hatcher getting distracted while on the verge of curing cancer, Emma McLuckie&#8217;s piece on a ghost who is easily frightened, somebody (see what I mean?) getting serious inspiration from the life of Harvey Pekar, Mhairi Hislep with the identifying characteristics of zombies, somebody else (aargh) with a brilliant piece about Jesus as a zombie, Mhairi again on how to dress fora zombie attack, and the differences of driving perspective right after getting a license and one year later.\u00c2\u00a0 Seriously, why nobody else (that I know of) has connected the obvious fact that Jesus was probably a zombie after rising from the dead is beyond me.\u00c2\u00a0 Plenty of other stories are in here too, as it&#8217;s really crammed with pieces, but half the fun of anthologies is going through all the little bits and pieces.\u00c2\u00a0 And it&#8217;s only a measly $5, if I have the conversion rate even close to right&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/teamgirl22.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-17508\" title=\"teamgirl22\" src=\"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/teamgirl22-202x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"202\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/teamgirl22-202x300.jpg 202w, https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/teamgirl22-691x1024.jpg 691w, https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/teamgirl22.jpg 1672w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 202px) 100vw, 202px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Website Team Girl Comic #2 Go Team Girl go!\u00c2\u00a0 Sorry to give away the ending of the review so quickly, but I&#8217;m all for increasing the role of women in comics, as there isn&#8217;t a thing wrong with getting some new perspectives on the genre.\u00c2\u00a0 Not like there haven&#8217;t already been women in comics for [&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":[4399,4392,4231,4229,4232,4230,4397,4394,4393,4395,4396,4398,4228],"class_list":["post-17505","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews","tag-claire-yvette","tag-coleen-campbell","tag-emma-mcluckie","tag-gill-hatcher","tag-heather-middleton","tag-jessica-hatcher","tag-jude-stoo","tag-karena-moore","tag-mhairi-bishop","tag-nondo","tag-penny-sharp","tag-rowan-smith","tag-team-girl"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17505","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=17505"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17505\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17509,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17505\/revisions\/17509"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}