{"id":17637,"date":"2010-12-22T15:47:02","date_gmt":"2010-12-22T21:47:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/?p=17637"},"modified":"2010-12-22T15:47:02","modified_gmt":"2010-12-22T21:47:02","slug":"fletschinger-e-s-beloved","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/?p=17637","title":{"rendered":"Fletschinger, E.S. &#8211; Beloved"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mynameiserich.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Website<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/beloved1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-17638\" title=\"beloved1\" src=\"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/beloved1-206x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"206\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/beloved1-206x300.jpg 206w, https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/beloved1-704x1024.jpg 704w, https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/beloved1.jpg 1264w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 206px) 100vw, 206px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Beloved<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It must be the holiday season, because my usually cold and unfeeling heart was in the perfect mood for something heartwarming when I read this. E.S. says this is his first mini, in which case kudos, as it&#8217;s expertly paced and drawn. This is the story of an old man who has just lost his significant other and who is, understandably, in a bit of a funk. He eventually decides to go the route of online dating, deals with the usual nonsense one will find if they don&#8217;t know what they&#8217;re doing (or, in a lot of cases, even if they do) and ends up with an agreement to meet somebody.\u00c2\u00a0 Any more that I say would just be unfair, although I already did give away the &#8220;heartwarming&#8221; part, right?\u00c2\u00a0 Eh, that could mean anything.\u00c2\u00a0 It&#8217;s short and mostly wordless, but it&#8217;s exactly the right size for the story it tells, and that&#8217;s all you can ask out of a comic.\u00c2\u00a0 Well, that and it&#8217;s entertaining and\/or informative, and this one wins on that front as well.\u00c2\u00a0 Check it out already, give this whippersnapper some incentive to keep the comics coming.\u00c2\u00a0 No price, but I&#8217;d guess a maximum of $5 and will post any actual price if I receive it.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/beloved2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-17639\" title=\"beloved2\" src=\"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/beloved2-180x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"180\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/beloved2-180x300.jpg 180w, https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/beloved2-617x1024.jpg 617w, https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/beloved2.jpg 1288w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 180px) 100vw, 180px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Website Beloved It must be the holiday season, because my usually cold and unfeeling heart was in the perfect mood for something heartwarming when I read this. E.S. says this is his first mini, in which case kudos, as it&#8217;s expertly paced and drawn. This is the story of an old man who has just [&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":[4461,4462],"class_list":["post-17637","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews","tag-beloved","tag-e-s-fletschinger"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17637","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=17637"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17637\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17640,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17637\/revisions\/17640"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}