{"id":26243,"date":"2020-05-27T13:01:30","date_gmt":"2020-05-27T18:01:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/?p=26243"},"modified":"2020-05-24T13:09:37","modified_gmt":"2020-05-24T18:09:37","slug":"thomas-grant-the-island-of-dr-miro","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/?p=26243","title":{"rendered":"Thomas, Grant &#8211; The Island of Dr. Miro"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.grantthomasonline.com\/\">Website<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"601\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/IMG_20200524_0002-601x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-26244\" srcset=\"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/IMG_20200524_0002-601x1024.jpg 601w, https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/IMG_20200524_0002-176x300.jpg 176w, https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/IMG_20200524_0002-147x250.jpg 147w, https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/IMG_20200524_0002-103x175.jpg 103w, https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/IMG_20200524_0002-22x38.jpg 22w, https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/IMG_20200524_0002-126x215.jpg 126w, https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/IMG_20200524_0002.jpg 727w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 601px) 100vw, 601px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>The Island of Dr. Miro<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Note: Grant&#8217;s website seems to be down, but he linked to it in a Twitter post a few days ago, so I&#8217;m guessing it&#8217;s just a temporary stop. Or my computer is messed up. Now on to the comics review! It&#8217;s going to be a short one, because this is a very short and wordless comic. It&#8217;s a fold-out book, so the comic itself is two long images and one single panel frame to wrap things up. He lists three inspirations to the work, but maybe it&#8217;d be more fun for you to figure them out for yourselves, so I won&#8217;t give them away. I did think I detected just a hint of Jim Woodring (not mentioned in his letter), so I&#8217;ll give you that. The comic itself is the story of an adventure in a bizarre world&#8230; or is it? It&#8217;s visually stunning, which is the most important factor for wordless comics. If this is your first time hearing Grant&#8217;s name maybe start with one of his more traditional comics, if you already know his stuff this is yet another worthy addition to the catolog. $4<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Website The Island of Dr. Miro Note: Grant&#8217;s website seems to be down, but he linked to it in a Twitter post a few days ago, so I&#8217;m guessing it&#8217;s just a temporary stop. Or my computer is messed up. Now on to the comics review! It&#8217;s going to be a short one, because this [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[4557,6467],"class_list":["post-26243","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews","tag-grant-thomas","tag-the-island-of-dr-miro"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26243","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=26243"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26243\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26245,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26243\/revisions\/26245"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}