{"id":17684,"date":"2011-01-09T14:49:23","date_gmt":"2011-01-09T20:49:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/?p=17684"},"modified":"2011-01-09T14:49:23","modified_gmt":"2011-01-09T20:49:23","slug":"fryer-hayden-billy-demon-slayer-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/?p=17684","title":{"rendered":"Fryer, Hayden &#8211; Billy Demon Slayer #5"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.billydemonslayer.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Website<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/billy51.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-17686\" title=\"billy51\" src=\"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/billy51-206x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"206\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/billy51-206x300.jpg 206w, https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/billy51-704x1024.jpg 704w, https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/billy51.jpg 1728w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 206px) 100vw, 206px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Billy: Demon Slayer Series 2 #5<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m going to try to read the last half of this series more quickly than I read the first half, as that may help with my generally crappy short term memory. At least it couldn&#8217;t hurt. This time around Billy has been taken over by something evil and his friends have been dragged to hell. That&#8217;s where we spend most of the issue: in hell, spending brief bits of time with its inhabitants while learning a bit more about the general master plan that&#8217;s been going on.\u00c2\u00a0 It&#8217;s basically a transitional issue, in other words, but with important things still going on.\u00c2\u00a0 I may not have mentioned this in past reviews (I could read them, but that would take actual effort, and I&#8217;m not fond of that), but I really enjoy Hayden&#8217;s &#8220;Where Are They Now?&#8221; segments at the back of each issue. Background characters are a constant feature of all books, and in a story like this, where there is very little time for huge amounts of character development, it makes me happy to see just how that one skull guy made it to hell in the first place.\u00c2\u00a0 Yes, I&#8217;m aware that this is probably odd, but it tickles me every time.\u00c2\u00a0 There&#8217;s not much left to say without spilling any beans.\u00c2\u00a0 I do wish that there weren&#8217;t three white guys with similar haircuts as major parts of the action, as it takes a minute to tell them apart. Couple that with the genuinely crappy memory and it&#8217;s a problem.\u00c2\u00a0 Still, that&#8217;s a minor quibble, and I&#8217;m enjoying the overall direction of this series, past complaints notwithstanding.\u00c2\u00a0 When I get to the finale I&#8217;m going to read the whole thing again before posting a review.\u00c2\u00a0 Best to be as informed as possible, right?\u00c2\u00a0 $3.50<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/billy52.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-17685\" title=\"billy52\" src=\"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/billy52-213x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"213\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/billy52-213x300.jpg 213w, https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/billy52-727x1024.jpg 727w, https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/billy52.jpg 1764w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 213px) 100vw, 213px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Website Billy: Demon Slayer Series 2 #5 I&#8217;m going to try to read the last half of this series more quickly than I read the first half, as that may help with my generally crappy short term memory. At least it couldn&#8217;t hurt. This time around Billy has been taken over by something evil and [&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":[4175,4174],"class_list":["post-17684","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews","tag-billy-the-demon-slayer","tag-hayden-fryer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17684","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=17684"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17684\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17687,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17684\/revisions\/17687"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17684"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}