{"id":18003,"date":"2011-04-05T16:51:25","date_gmt":"2011-04-05T21:51:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/?p=18003"},"modified":"2011-04-05T16:51:25","modified_gmt":"2011-04-05T21:51:25","slug":"viola-jason-herman-the-manatee-gets-hit-by-a-boat-volume-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/?p=18003","title":{"rendered":"Viola, Jason &#8211; Herman the Manatee Gets Hit By A Boat Volume 1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/store.manateepower.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Website<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/herman_vol1_store.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-18004\" title=\"herman_vol1_store\" src=\"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/herman_vol1_store.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"253\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Herman the Manatee Gets Hit By A Boat Volume 1<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>You&#8217;d think that a strip that almost always ended with the main character getting hit by a boat would get boring in a hurry. It threatens to get boring but Jason does an admirable job of turning it around before it goes off the rails. The art is fantastic, which is almost a shame as there really isn&#8217;t a lot to show most of the time other than a manatee, some fish or possibly a surface view. It&#8217;s comics like this that make me think that I shouldn&#8217;t be so quick to dismiss web comics. Well, it&#8217;s not I dismiss them out of hand, it&#8217;s just that I get so many physical mini comics that it would be impossible to get into reviewing web comics too. If you were wondering, yes, this is the exact same reason why I don&#8217;t review zines. Anyway, I should probably mention a few of the comics, even if I have already given away the ending for most of them. Herman is lured up to the surface by a song, bubbles, different asshole fish and a fortune cookie. He tries a few different methods to get around this problem, each with varying degrees of a lack of success. We also see a bit of Herman&#8217;s early days, and from those it&#8217;s a wonder that he ever gets out of whatever he uses as a bed in the morning. There&#8217;s also a smartly done parody of the work of both George Herriman and Edward Gorey to liven things up when it starts dragging a bit. Jason sent along three more volumes of this series, and it may or may not get terribly boring over the long term. Either way, this first issue is worth a look, and if you don&#8217;t believe me then his website should have more than enough samples to convince you. $3<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/2008-03-26-kooky_cookie.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-18005\" title=\"2008-03-26-kooky_cookie\" src=\"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/2008-03-26-kooky_cookie-300x195.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"195\" srcset=\"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/2008-03-26-kooky_cookie-300x195.jpg 300w, https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/2008-03-26-kooky_cookie.jpg 700w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Website Herman the Manatee Gets Hit By A Boat Volume 1 You&#8217;d think that a strip that almost always ended with the main character getting hit by a boat would get boring in a hurry. It threatens to get boring but Jason does an admirable job of turning it around before it goes off the [&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":[4548,4353],"class_list":["post-18003","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews","tag-herman-the-manatee","tag-jason-viola"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18003","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=18003"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18003\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18006,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18003\/revisions\/18006"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18003"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18003"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18003"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}