{"id":25905,"date":"2019-08-13T12:51:45","date_gmt":"2019-08-13T17:51:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/?p=25905"},"modified":"2024-07-21T11:32:04","modified_gmt":"2024-07-21T16:32:04","slug":"pohl-martin-sportsbar-new-york-part-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/?p=25905","title":{"rendered":"Pohl, Martin – Sportsbar, New York Part 1"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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18 years into this reviewing gig and I can still get baffled by a comic. It’s what keeps me going, folks! Long time readers should know by now that “baffled” is not synonymous with “disgusted;” it’s much more likely to mean “delighted but confused.” This one starts off with a long introduction that is damned clever and funny. Takes the reader on quite a journey before even getting to the comic. That’s after a table of contents that I almost used as the sample page because of its sheer absurdity: chapter 1 is on page 1, chapter 2 is on page 2, all the way to chapter 28 on page 28. And both the pages and the chapters are numbered on every page! Boggles the mind. Anyway! This is a series of single page strips, which built up into a decent narrative when all was said and done. Initially it seemed like it would be a series of mildly amusing punchlines, but then things got weird. Our heroes, theoretically, are two rabbits who have some anger (and boredom) issues. They watch a show called Two Morbid Pigeons (which is basically like watching themselves on television), suspect that they’re being watched by some agency (and they’re right), and sometimes there are humans involved. In their own strips, that is. Unless the rabbits have become human? Nah, I’m probably overthinking it. It won me over by the end, that’s for sure. $5<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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