{"id":18247,"date":"2011-07-07T14:30:38","date_gmt":"2011-07-07T19:30:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/?p=18247"},"modified":"2011-07-07T14:30:38","modified_gmt":"2011-07-07T19:30:38","slug":"hill-dan-the-fifty-flip-experiment-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/?p=18247","title":{"rendered":"Hill, Dan &#8211; The Fifty Flip Experiment #3"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fiftyflipexperiment.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Website<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ohnorobot.com\/archive.pl?comic=156\" target=\"_blank\">A different website<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/fiftyflip31.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-18248\" title=\"fiftyflip31\" src=\"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/fiftyflip31-191x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"191\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/fiftyflip31-191x300.jpg 191w, https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/fiftyflip31-654x1024.jpg 654w, https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/fiftyflip31.jpg 1557w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 191px) 100vw, 191px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>The Fifty Flip Experiment #3<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Ah, a comic from back when this comic was funny. For those of you who are sarcasm-challenged, well, the comic is STILL funny (as of #14 anyway), but wow was the format different back when this issue came out. By the time Dan got to #14 the stories were getting longer and the art was getting better, but it&#8217;s hard to compare to an issue like this in terms of sheer content. This is mostly a series of comic strips, usually four to a page, along with some single page strips. As a result of all that content I&#8217;ll just briefly mention what you could find in the first half of the book: mistaken unicorn identity, screaming dad, some unfortunate third world care packages, the moral superiority of jogging, stupid Simba, the secret of Abraham Lincoln&#8217;s hat, medical experiments on slaves (in an odd change of pace for an otherwise jovial book), fucking crows, streamlining the mate selection process, &#8220;fake&#8221; wrestling, and a suicidal tackle box. And that&#8217;s just chunks of the first half! If you&#8217;ve never heard of Dan Hill and want to see what exactly he&#8217;s capable of, chances are that you&#8217;re going to want to start with one of his more recent work comics and work your way back. If you&#8217;re already a fan, or if you&#8217;re obsessed with getting value for your comics dollar, it&#8217;s hard to go wrong with this one. As for those websites, the first one is Dan&#8217;s official website (as far as I know), but it&#8217;s not working at the moment. The second one lists several of Dan&#8217;s old comics, including many of them from this issue, but that&#8217;s not working at the moment either. Too bad, but here&#8217;s hoping it&#8217;s just a temporary thing. If I remember correctly these were generally $2, although maybe the earlier ones were cheaper.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/fiftyflip32.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-18249\" title=\"fiftyflip32\" src=\"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/fiftyflip32-177x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"177\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/fiftyflip32-177x300.jpg 177w, https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/fiftyflip32-607x1024.jpg 607w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 177px) 100vw, 177px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Website A different website The Fifty Flip Experiment #3 Ah, a comic from back when this comic was funny. For those of you who are sarcasm-challenged, well, the comic is STILL funny (as of #14 anyway), but wow was the format different back when this issue came out. By the time Dan got to #14 [&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":[2915,1289],"class_list":["post-18247","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews","tag-dan-hill","tag-the-fifty-flip-experiment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18247","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=18247"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18247\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18250,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18247\/revisions\/18250"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}