{"id":2827,"date":"2010-05-02T15:48:22","date_gmt":"2010-05-02T20:48:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/?p=2827"},"modified":"2010-07-22T22:44:40","modified_gmt":"2010-07-23T03:44:40","slug":"swain-carol","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/?p=2827","title":{"rendered":"Swain, Carol &#8211; Invasion of the Mind Sappers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fantagraphics.com\/artist\/swain\/swain.html\">Website at Fantagraphics<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/images\/invasionofthemindsappers1.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" width=\"293\" height=\"450\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/1560971991\/xeroxarmy-20\">Invasion of the Mind Sappers<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Mediocre. That&#8217;s the word for this one, all the praise on the back of the book and on the Amazon page notwithstanding. A UFO crashes on the outskirts of a small town on the same night that a new teacher moves into town. Coincidence, or is the new teacher an alien? This book has a few good moments, but that&#8217;s about all I can say about it. I read it about 5 minutes ago and I can already feel it fading from my brain, so I guess you can say that it didn&#8217;t make much of an impression at all. Buy it if you believe that Fantagraphics can do no wrong and that I usually don&#8217;t know what the hell I&#8217;m talking about, otherwise don&#8217;t bother.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Website at Fantagraphics Invasion of the Mind Sappers Mediocre. That&#8217;s the word for this one, all the praise on the back of the book and on the Amazon page notwithstanding. A UFO crashes on the outskirts of a small town on the same night that a new teacher moves into town. Coincidence, or is the [&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":[3964,2141],"class_list":["post-2827","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews","tag-carol-swain","tag-invasion-of-the-mind-sappers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2827","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=2827"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2827\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16487,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2827\/revisions\/16487"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2827"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2827"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2827"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}