{"id":28536,"date":"2024-07-16T12:16:46","date_gmt":"2024-07-16T17:16:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/?p=28536"},"modified":"2024-07-14T12:51:58","modified_gmt":"2024-07-14T17:51:58","slug":"mirsky-robb-ha-magazine-summer-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/?p=28536","title":{"rendered":"Mirsky, Robb &#8211; Ha! Magazine Summer 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mymovingparts.com\/\">Website<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/IMG_20240714_0001-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"776\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/IMG_20240714_0001-776x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-28543\" srcset=\"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/IMG_20240714_0001-776x1024.jpg 776w, https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/IMG_20240714_0001-227x300.jpg 227w, https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/IMG_20240714_0001-768x1013.jpg 768w, https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/IMG_20240714_0001-1164x1536.jpg 1164w, https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/IMG_20240714_0001-1552x2048.jpg 1552w, https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/IMG_20240714_0001-189x250.jpg 189w, https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/IMG_20240714_0001-133x175.jpg 133w, https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/IMG_20240714_0001-29x38.jpg 29w, https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/IMG_20240714_0001-163x215.jpg 163w, https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/IMG_20240714_0001-scaled.jpg 1940w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 776px) 100vw, 776px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/atomicbooks.com\/products\/ha-magazine-summer-2024\">Ha! Magazine Summer 2024<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Public service announcement: Robb has released a collected edition of his <a href=\"https:\/\/mymovingparts.com\/collections\/comics\/products\/the-collected-sludgy-book\">Sludgy comics<\/a>, which is required reading for anybody who likes laughter and\/or pathos. Or just great comics. But hey, howsa about this comic here? It&#8217;s another collection of gags and funnies, with maybe a lesson or two to be learned if you&#8217;re not careful! Or not; any morality learned from these strips is strictly up to you. Stories in this one include a very practical deal with the devil, Dripsy Mutt and his sad efforts to make people laugh, good ol&#8217; Chucky and his unlucky (then lucky, then unlucky again) attempt at dating, a few ads against smoking that would be more effective than whatever else is currently running, those lovable scamps DIngus and Dum-Dum and their lengthy journey to try and make chicken soup, the struggles and horror of Toddler Body, and John Kinkade and his journey to bring the residents of a small village&#8230; freedom maybe? There&#8217;s also a full color bit in the middle with our friends from the Lemonade Brigade trying to shake down a lemonade stand and their attempt to start a band. Please understand, as always, these are my fairly dry descriptions of strips that are filled with laughs, and it is forever a hopeless task for a reviewer to try to convey humor through description and\/or light critical suggestions. As for that end of things, about all I have on that front is a few spelling errors, but I&#8217;m guessing they&#8217;re the kind of things that only stand out to real pedants, like me. If you&#8217;re also like that, see if you can spot them! If not, take in the funny and enjoy why don&#8217;t you? Oh, he also says that supplies are limited for that Sludgy book, and since this particular issue is already sold out on his website (don&#8217;t worry, I linked to a source that still has copies), I&#8217;d be inclined to believe him on the limited copies. $10<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/IMG_20240714_0002-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"748\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/IMG_20240714_0002-748x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-28544\" srcset=\"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/IMG_20240714_0002-748x1024.jpg 748w, https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/IMG_20240714_0002-219x300.jpg 219w, https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/IMG_20240714_0002-768x1052.jpg 768w, https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/IMG_20240714_0002-1122x1536.jpg 1122w, https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/IMG_20240714_0002-1496x2048.jpg 1496w, https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/IMG_20240714_0002-183x250.jpg 183w, https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/IMG_20240714_0002-128x175.jpg 128w, https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/IMG_20240714_0002-28x38.jpg 28w, https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/IMG_20240714_0002-157x215.jpg 157w, https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/IMG_20240714_0002-scaled.jpg 1869w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 748px) 100vw, 748px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Website Ha! Magazine Summer 2024 Public service announcement: Robb has released a collected edition of his Sludgy comics, which is required reading for anybody who likes laughter and\/or pathos. Or just great comics. But hey, howsa about this comic here? It&#8217;s another collection of gags and funnies, with maybe a lesson or two to be [&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":[6840,6841,6605],"class_list":["post-28536","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews","tag-ha","tag-ha-magazine","tag-robb-mirsky"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28536","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=28536"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28536\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28545,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28536\/revisions\/28545"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28536"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}