{"id":26800,"date":"2021-07-12T13:16:00","date_gmt":"2021-07-12T18:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/?p=26800"},"modified":"2021-07-11T13:27:35","modified_gmt":"2021-07-11T18:27:35","slug":"canini-brian-four-stories","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/?p=26800","title":{"rendered":"Canini, Brian – Four Stories"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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Four stories? In an eight page comic? Who would have thought that such a thing was possible? Granted, two of the stories are only a single page, but it’s still impressive. This is a really solid mini, and it even ends with a nice little update to the first story, which features a grimly realistic tale of a fish slowly developing the ability to walk on land and what happens to him when he gets there. All on one page! Next up is the meat of the comic, a tale about the hidden costs of dining out at a seriously upscale restaurant, which is a little too close to real life, and something that’s probably coming (if it’s not already here; I haven’t dined at a super fancy restaurant since before the pandemic, so I’m a bit behind the times). Next up we get the juxtaposition of a letter home from an aspiring star in Hollywood to the actuality of what she’s going through. And finally there’s a good old fashioned gag strip about how quickly time can pass you by and make you seem completely out of touch. As somebody who still has trouble grasping why it’s so terrible to use a period to end a sentence in a text message, boy howdy can I ever relate. It just means the sentence is done, not that I’m yelling at you! Ugh, kids today. Well, since those last two sentences aged me twenty years, I’d better wrap things up. This one has variety, a couple of surprisingly dense stories (especially considering the format), and a few laughs. All for a measly $2!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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