{"id":3154,"date":"2010-05-02T15:00:02","date_gmt":"2010-05-02T20:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/?p=3154"},"modified":"2010-07-22T22:44:44","modified_gmt":"2010-07-23T03:44:44","slug":"solomon-ali","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/?p=3154","title":{"rendered":"Solomon, Ali &#8211; Strings Attached: Amy&#8217;s Birthday Party"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stringsattachedcomic.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Website<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"mailto:alicoaster@gmail.com\">E-mail<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/images\/strings1.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" hspace=\"0\" align=\"bottom\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Strings Attached: Amy&#8217;s Birthday Party<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Uh oh, the dreaded serial comic strip. People who read this site often know that, generally speaking, that format doesn&#8217;t do a thing for me. There are exceptions, but even with the stuff I like the format can wear me down after a while. With that caveat, this is a serial comic about the events of a birthday party, either among people in college or people not far removed from college. Ali gets things off to a great start with the opening strip showing the various characters naked in a tree, locked in a closet, with blue hands and with a pocket full of curry. Right off the bat, the reader has to find out what happened there. From there she manages to put a serviceable punchline in every strip, as things get more and more chaotic and the events from that intro panel come into focus. Some strips are funnier than others and I generally have a problem with punchlines, so people who like that sort of thing would probably love this. As for the art, it&#8217;s generally pretty sparse with few complicated backgrounds going on, but it looks like Ali has some skills, maybe a break from the serial format into actual comic pages would give her a chance to shine. $3<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/images\/strings2.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" hspace=\"0\" align=\"bottom\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Website E-mail Strings Attached: Amy&#8217;s Birthday Party Uh oh, the dreaded serial comic strip. People who read this site often know that, generally speaking, that format doesn&#8217;t do a thing for me. There are exceptions, but even with the stuff I like the format can wear me down after a while. With that caveat, this [&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":[3950,2093,2092],"class_list":["post-3154","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews","tag-ali-solomon","tag-amys-birthday-party","tag-strings-attached"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3154","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=3154"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3154\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16503,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3154\/revisions\/16503"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}