{"id":28576,"date":"2024-08-01T11:21:11","date_gmt":"2024-08-01T16:21:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/?p=28576"},"modified":"2024-07-28T11:43:11","modified_gmt":"2024-07-28T16:43:11","slug":"canini-brian-plastic-people-13-15","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/?p=28576","title":{"rendered":"Canini, Brian – Plastic People #13-15"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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I accidentally read through #15-17 first, so I’m going to do my level best not to let loose with any spoilers for those last two issues in this review. Let’s watch how this old clunker of a brain does with that task together, OK? I actually thought that #15-17 worked seamlessly as a chunk of the overall story (same characters, same focus), but that’s not what I’m talking about here. #13 is mostly a dinner conversation with Gabe (one of the cops) and his friends, sharing theories about the killer and just generally chatting. A fairly casual issue, until you get to the very end of it. This is where my “no spoilers” policy on individual issues kind of falls apart, because #14 starts off with a jogger discovering the body from the end of the last issue, and this victim was also at Gabe’s dinner from the previous issue. Most of this issue is spent with the cops going through some theories and trying to knock down obvious dead ends, and then Gabe is called to the scene. In a rage, he decides to make a statement to the killer through the assembled media, which goes about as well as you’d expect, considering the fact that he just found his friend murdered. #15 is all about the consequences of that press statement, further theories about the victims and how they may or may not be connected… and a mysterious phone call. Too many spoilers? Eh, these multiple issue reviews are tough. The overall point is that this storyline is humming right along, which is a thing that definitely continues for the next two issues as well. It feels like one of those stories where the clues of who the killer might be are all here and it’ll end up being an “oh, of course” moment when he or she is revealed, but who knows? I’m still invested in the mystery, which I’d call solid work out of Brian after 15 issues. Check it out, although I’m obviously recommend an earlier compendium to start out, what with how numbering systems work and all. $4.99 (or $1.99 per issue)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Website Plastic People #13-15 I accidentally read through #15-17 first, so I’m going to do my level best not to let loose with any spoilers for those last two issues in this review. Let’s watch how this old clunker of a brain does with that task together, OK? I actually thought that #15-17 worked seamlessly […]<\/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":[2584,6420],"class_list":["post-28576","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews","tag-brian-canini","tag-plastic-people"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28576","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=28576"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28576\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28579,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28576\/revisions\/28579"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28576"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28576"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28576"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}