{"id":17540,"date":"2010-12-01T15:16:46","date_gmt":"2010-12-01T21:16:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/?p=17540"},"modified":"2010-12-01T15:16:46","modified_gmt":"2010-12-01T21:16:46","slug":"jay-damien-the-natural-world-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/?p=17540","title":{"rendered":"Jay, Damien – The Natural World #4"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The Natural World 4<\/h3>\n

Why aren’t there more serialized stories in the small press comics world?\u00c2\u00a0 Oh, I don’t mean the people who write for one of the “big” publishers, but among the mini comics folks it seems to be exceedingly rare, and that’s a shame.\u00c2\u00a0 Damien says at the end of this issue that he thought he would be about ready to wrap up the story at this point, but that it “has already strayed a few times from its anticipated course.”\u00c2\u00a0 Good!\u00c2\u00a0 Let it stray, let it expand, and let it be whatever story it’s supposed to end up being.\u00c2\u00a0 If I had a large chunk of disposable income I’d ask my favorite dozen comic creators to come up with ongoing series and give them money to put them out instead of focusing on single, unconnected issues.\u00c2\u00a0 What set me off on this subject?\u00c2\u00a0 Um, it’s Wednesday?\u00c2\u00a0 Who knows.\u00c2\u00a0 So how about this issue?\u00c2\u00a0 Well, if it really was only a three or four issue series, it would have arguably been a waste of time, as what we get is Shannon (the crazy guy living in the woods) and Walter (the only slightly less crazy guy with the dog) chatting in the forest. In a shorter series, this might have been a bad idea.\u00c2\u00a0 In a series that is probably going to go 10 issues, it’s perfect.\u00c2\u00a0 We’ve seen both of these guys plenty but haven’t had much of a chance to get into their motivations or what they’re all about for any length of time.\u00c2\u00a0 Here that’s ALL we get, and it’ll almost certainly pay off big in the long run.\u00c2\u00a0 So what did they talk about for an entire issue?\u00c2\u00a0 Screw that, buy it and see for yourself.\u00c2\u00a0 If you’re not already reading this series you certainly should be, so why should I give anything away?\u00c2\u00a0 OK, a taste: that carved bird pops up again, we learn that the dog doesn’t like Shannon very much, and much fun is had with Walter’s way of talking.\u00c2\u00a0 $4<\/p>\n

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Website The Natural World 4 Why aren’t there more serialized stories in the small press comics world?\u00c2\u00a0 Oh, I don’t mean the people who write for one of the “big” publishers, but among the mini comics folks it seems to be exceedingly rare, and that’s a shame.\u00c2\u00a0 Damien says at the end of this issue […]<\/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":[2962,4407],"class_list":["post-17540","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews","tag-damien-jay","tag-natural-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17540","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=17540"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17540\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17543,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17540\/revisions\/17543"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}