{"id":3679,"date":"2009-06-16T10:00:53","date_gmt":"2009-06-16T15:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/?p=3679"},"modified":"2010-06-23T15:55:10","modified_gmt":"2010-06-23T20:55:10","slug":"hill-dan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/?p=3679","title":{"rendered":"Hill, Dan &#8211; The Fifty Flip Experiment #7"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fiftyflipexperiment.com\" target=\"_blank\">Website<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/fiftyflip71.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4407\" title=\"fiftyflip71\" src=\"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/fiftyflip71.jpg\" alt=\"fiftyflip71\" width=\"324\" height=\"510\" srcset=\"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/fiftyflip71.jpg 324w, https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/fiftyflip71-190x300.jpg 190w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 324px) 100vw, 324px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>The Fifty Flip Experiment #7<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Dan passes a crucial test with this issue: is it better than the last one?\u00c2\u00a0 In every way, and it&#8217;s not like the last issue was awful.\u00c2\u00a0 Of course, it is possible to pass that test too often and become like Dan Clowes.\u00c2\u00a0 Dan kept making every issue of Eightball better and better for years until eventually he lost the ability to make comics, as he eventually reached a critical mass of awesomeness.\u00c2\u00a0 As long as this Dan can avoid that, he should be fine.\u00c2\u00a0 Stories in this issue include the tale of Albrecht Durer (and Dan gets bonus points both for using the umlaut and for saying that Albrecht can use them every time they&#8217;re printed in his name &#8220;like a periscope from hell&#8221;), a studious and curious boy who&#8217;s also mildly homicidal, a young man who tunes out the cartoon villain who&#8217;s come to kill him, Neat Pete looking for cash, an unfortunate usage of a blender, a bad babysitter, the sternum and the awful, awful pun.\u00c2\u00a0 It made me chuckle more than a few times, what more can you ask for?\u00c2\u00a0 $2 (or $1 if you get it from Dan&#8217;s hands).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/fiftyflip72.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4408\" title=\"fiftyflip72\" src=\"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/fiftyflip72.jpg\" alt=\"fiftyflip72\" width=\"408\" height=\"686\" srcset=\"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/fiftyflip72.jpg 408w, https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/fiftyflip72-178x300.jpg 178w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 408px) 100vw, 408px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Website The Fifty Flip Experiment #7 Dan passes a crucial test with this issue: is it better than the last one?\u00c2\u00a0 In every way, and it&#8217;s not like the last issue was awful.\u00c2\u00a0 Of course, it is possible to pass that test too often and become like Dan Clowes.\u00c2\u00a0 Dan kept making every issue of [&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":[2915,1289],"class_list":["post-3679","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews","tag-dan-hill","tag-the-fifty-flip-experiment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3679","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=3679"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3679\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10044,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3679\/revisions\/10044"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}