{"id":29397,"date":"2026-01-05T13:22:06","date_gmt":"2026-01-05T19:22:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/?p=29397"},"modified":"2026-01-04T13:26:30","modified_gmt":"2026-01-04T19:26:30","slug":"update-for-1-5-26","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/?p=29397","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Update&#8221; for 1\/5\/26"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Sure, most people have to go back to work or school from the holiday break this week, but I decided that I&#8217;m sticking with me &#8220;best of&#8221; idea for the year. Note: these aren&#8217;t in any kind of order, and I&#8217;m mostly covering stuff that I reviewed here. Since I hardly ever review the big Fantagraphics\/Drawn &amp; Quarterly\/etc. releases, that means that my selections will be wildly different from the other lists you&#8217;ll see. But read those too! Generally speaking, those books are on the big lists for a reason. I&#8217;m starting off with maybe my favorite book of the year (but these aren&#8217;t going to be in any kind of order): <a href=\"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/?p=29177\">Goes Like This by Jordan Crane<\/a>. And what the heck, I&#8217;m also going to mention a (primarily) mini comics person each day too, so why not start with the guy I&#8217;ve reviewed the most: <a href=\"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/?s=brian+canini\">Brian Canini<\/a>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sure, most people have to go back to work or school from the holiday break this week, but I decided that I&#8217;m sticking with me &#8220;best of&#8221; idea for the year. Note: these aren&#8217;t in any kind of order, and I&#8217;m mostly covering stuff that I reviewed here. Since I hardly ever review the big [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29397","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-site-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29397","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=29397"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29397\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29398,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29397\/revisions\/29398"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}