{"id":29616,"date":"2026-06-08T12:50:28","date_gmt":"2026-06-08T17:50:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/?p=29616"},"modified":"2026-06-07T13:05:32","modified_gmt":"2026-06-07T18:05:32","slug":"rase-stu-the-undad-photographic-memory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/?p=29616","title":{"rendered":"Rase, Stu &#8211; The Undad: Photographic Memory"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/stu_rase\/\">Website<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/IMG_20260607_0001-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"652\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/IMG_20260607_0001-652x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-29617\" srcset=\"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/IMG_20260607_0001-652x1024.jpg 652w, https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/IMG_20260607_0001-191x300.jpg 191w, https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/IMG_20260607_0001-768x1207.jpg 768w, https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/IMG_20260607_0001-978x1536.jpg 978w, https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/IMG_20260607_0001-1303x2048.jpg 1303w, https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/IMG_20260607_0001-159x250.jpg 159w, https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/IMG_20260607_0001-111x175.jpg 111w, https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/IMG_20260607_0001-24x38.jpg 24w, https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/IMG_20260607_0001-137x215.jpg 137w, https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/IMG_20260607_0001-scaled.jpg 1629w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 652px) 100vw, 652px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>The Undad: Photographic Memory<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I ended up buying five comics from Laughing Ogre during my recent trip to Columbus (6\/26, future readers, or maybe past readers who are very freaked out right now) and so far I&#8217;m 0 for 2 on reading comics that have active websites. But hey, at least this time around I was able to link to his active Instagram page, so if you&#8217;d like to check out his comic, maybe contact him there and see what you can find out! This one has a solid premise: what if a dad had been turned into a zombie but was calm enough to be able to still be around his family? Tied up to a tree in the backyard, granted, but able to mostly control his urges. Things start off with a distraught woman putting up missing posters for her daughter, while Undad was playing with his own daughter in the backyard. She recognizes the missing girl as a classmate who was kind of a jerk to her, but hey, somebody should at least try to find this terrible kid! They end up checking out a boarded up grocery store with a very stark warning written outside of it, which naturally leads to a zombie attack. But are they regular brain eating zombies or also kind of nice zombies? There&#8217;s a fun little moral dilemma involved, or at least there is for the member of the search party who&#8217;s still capable of higher thought. From there they can think of one other place to search, but it&#8217;s chained up and checking it out doesn&#8217;t look like a great idea either. How far is this girl willing to go to rescue a kid who isn&#8217;t even her friend? If you&#8217;re looking for a deep lore dive of &#8220;OK, so what is civilization like with zombies wandering around?&#8221; or &#8220;If this one guy can be tamed, can that happen with all of them?&#8221; then there are probably other comics out there for you. But this one was a sweet, self-contained story about what&#8217;s left of a dad trying to get along in the world and his family trying to navigate what&#8217;s left of the guy. And hey, it&#8217;s full color, so if you have $4 and can find a copy (there are probably some left at Laughing Ogre as I&#8217;m typing this), check it out! $4<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/IMG_20260607_0002-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"654\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/IMG_20260607_0002-654x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-29618\" srcset=\"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/IMG_20260607_0002-654x1024.jpg 654w, https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/IMG_20260607_0002-192x300.jpg 192w, https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/IMG_20260607_0002-768x1202.jpg 768w, https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/IMG_20260607_0002-982x1536.jpg 982w, https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/IMG_20260607_0002-1309x2048.jpg 1309w, https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/IMG_20260607_0002-160x250.jpg 160w, https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/IMG_20260607_0002-112x175.jpg 112w, https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/IMG_20260607_0002-24x38.jpg 24w, https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/IMG_20260607_0002-137x215.jpg 137w, https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/IMG_20260607_0002-scaled.jpg 1636w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 654px) 100vw, 654px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Website The Undad: Photographic Memory I ended up buying five comics from Laughing Ogre during my recent trip to Columbus (6\/26, future readers, or maybe past readers who are very freaked out right now) and so far I&#8217;m 0 for 2 on reading comics that have active websites. 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