{"id":18739,"date":"2011-11-10T17:44:34","date_gmt":"2011-11-10T23:44:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/?p=18739"},"modified":"2011-11-10T17:44:34","modified_gmt":"2011-11-10T23:44:34","slug":"thomas-grant-dodo-comics-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/?p=18739","title":{"rendered":"Thomas, Grant &#8211; Dodo Comics #2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/grantthomasonline.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Website<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/dodo21.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-18740\" title=\"dodo21\" src=\"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/dodo21-193x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"193\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/dodo21-193x300.jpg 193w, https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/dodo21-659x1024.jpg 659w, https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/dodo21.jpg 1664w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 193px) 100vw, 193px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Dodo Comics #2<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Does everybody out there know of Sergio Leone? I know that this is going to sound like a stupid question to everybody over 35 or so (I hope), but I don&#8217;t know how much the youth of today know their film history, and christ do I feel stupid saying &#8220;youth of today.&#8221; Anyway, Sergio Leone directed a few of the more famous spaghetti westerns (and who know what a spaghetti western is&#8230; aw, forget it) of all time, and the first story of this book is a silent tribute to his film technique. Before certain dramatic moments, like a gunfight, you&#8217;d see a series of quick cuts between the eyes of the gunfighters, the fingers twitching near the triggers, a bead of sweat slowly rolling down one of their faces, all that stuff needed to build tension without having to beat you over the head with it. Grant does a really nice job of conveying that feeling although, if I&#8217;m being honest, that last panel was a bit of a mess. Still, everything leading up to it was nicely done. The comic takes a turn from there to deal with the remaining three stories, and I don&#8217;t mean that in a bad way. There&#8217;s a piece about Grant&#8217;s early years with his first nude models (and how one of the ladies loved talking to the college artists with her robe wide open), a comic pantoum story (with tricky reading of the panels required) dealing with going to see an ex singing, and a nice little story with the devil trying to trick a hermit. A nice mix of stories, and there&#8217;s even a funny panel on the back showing Grant trying to draw comics while surrounded by his two baby daughters. It&#8217;s a solid comic and I&#8217;m enjoying his willingness to mix things up with his stories. Hey, that&#8217;s why these things have more than one story each, right? $3<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/dodo22_NEW.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-18741\" title=\"dodo22_NEW\" src=\"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/dodo22_NEW-183x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"183\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/dodo22_NEW-183x300.jpg 183w, https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/dodo22_NEW-624x1024.jpg 624w, https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/dodo22_NEW.jpg 1520w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 183px) 100vw, 183px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Website Dodo Comics #2 Does everybody out there know of Sergio Leone? I know that this is going to sound like a stupid question to everybody over 35 or so (I hope), but I don&#8217;t know how much the youth of today know their film history, and christ do I feel stupid saying &#8220;youth of [&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":[4558,4557],"class_list":["post-18739","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews","tag-dodo-comics","tag-grant-thomas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18739","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=18739"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18739\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18742,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18739\/revisions\/18742"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}