{"id":2754,"date":"2010-05-02T12:51:24","date_gmt":"2010-05-02T17:51:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/?p=2754"},"modified":"2010-07-22T22:44:51","modified_gmt":"2010-07-23T03:44:51","slug":"priddy-joel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/?p=2754","title":{"rendered":"Priddy, Joel &#8211; The Preposterous Voyages of Ironside Tom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.joelpriddy.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Website<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/images\/ironhidetom1.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" hspace=\"0\" align=\"bottom\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>The Preposterous Voyages of Ironside Tom<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>How on earth did I miss out on this guy? Joel put out a graphic novel called Pulpatoon: Pilgrimage a few years back and I missed it completely. I&#8217;m ruing that fact because that book is a wonderful, wonderful thing that I&#8217;d recommend as highly as possible even if it wasn&#8217;t free. If you&#8217;re reading this currently (or sometime before 5\/6\/06, which is free comic day and if you live near a halfway decent comic shop this should be available), then don&#8217;t forget to go and get this. If not, I&#8217;ll bet that website up there has some info on how you can get it after the fact. Have I even mentioned the comic yet? It&#8217;s the minimalist adventures of Ironhide Tom, a man born of a drunk sailor and a typhoon. I sampled his origin below, but suffice to say that Tom speaks like a pirate throughout, which is always a good thing, and has all sorts of adventures that all seem to end up the same way: with Tom penniless and ready for more adventure. And kids, if you ever thought that you couldn&#8217;t do comics because of a lack of drawing ability, look no further than this comic. I&#8217;m not saying that Joel can&#8217;t draw, far from it in fact, but he has minimal interpretations of pirates, elephants, an underwater realm, scorpions, a seahorse, and more things than you&#8217;d believe and they&#8217;re all gorgeous. Then he goes and ruins it by drawing some seriously impressive non-minimal sea monsters, which only makes the whole package that much better. This is a blast from start to finish, and I plan on getting that older graphic novel at the free comics day (if my local store is smart enough to carry it), so maybe I can tell you more about Joel soon. For now, I&#8217;d recommend checking this out if it was $5, but for $0 you&#8217;d have to be crazy not to check it out.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/images\/ironhidetom2.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" hspace=\"0\" align=\"bottom\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Website The Preposterous Voyages of Ironside Tom How on earth did I miss out on this guy? Joel put out a graphic novel called Pulpatoon: Pilgrimage a few years back and I missed it completely. I&#8217;m ruing that fact because that book is a wonderful, wonderful thing that I&#8217;d recommend as highly as possible even [&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":[3912,1889],"class_list":["post-2754","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews","tag-joel-priddy","tag-the-preposterous-voyages-of-ironside-tom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2754","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=2754"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2754\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7434,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2754\/revisions\/7434"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2754"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2754"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2754"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}