{"id":3878,"date":"2010-05-02T18:18:53","date_gmt":"2010-05-02T23:18:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/?p=3878"},"modified":"2010-07-22T22:44:31","modified_gmt":"2010-07-23T03:44:31","slug":"various-anthologies-edited-by-mark-innes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/?p=3878","title":{"rendered":"Various Anthologies edited by Mark Innes &#8211; Romantic Eye #1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/people\/Mark-Innes\/570759210\" target=\"_blank\">Website<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/romanticeye11.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3879\" title=\"romanticeye11\" src=\"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/romanticeye11.jpg\" alt=\"romanticeye11\" width=\"393\" height=\"617\" srcset=\"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/romanticeye11.jpg 393w, https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/romanticeye11-191x300.jpg 191w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 393px) 100vw, 393px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Romantic Eye #1<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Is that a great cover or what?\u00c2\u00a0 As always, when it comes to reviewing romantic comics and\/or love stories, how jaded I am will inevitably shine through.\u00c2\u00a0 This doesn&#8217;t say a single negative thing about the quality of the stories, the artwork or the wonder that is people in love&#8230; it just says that I tend to get a bit overwhelmed with this sort of thing and am not the best person to be rambling about it.\u00c2\u00a0 That being said, time to ramble! There&#8217;s a wide collection of folks in here and, oddly enough, Mark Innes isn&#8217;t listed.\u00c2\u00a0 Is it legal in comics world for somebody to publish an anthology and not be a part of it?\u00c2\u00a0 Huh.\u00c2\u00a0 Stories include Earl Geier&#8217;s tale of a post apocalyptic world and the man left fighting for all he has left of love, Henrik Rehr&#8217;s odd suggestion that I have a kid to compare that to being a kid, Ron Kasman&#8217;s seriously wonderful take on the hazards of getting cold feet while in the middle of a teleportation, John Migliore &amp; Larry Blake&#8217;s Tales From The Crypt-esque ode to love in modern times, Steve LeBlanc&#8217;s warning about getting what you wished for, and Larry Blake&#8217;s explanation of how an attractive, ageless superheroine finds love.\u00c2\u00a0 There&#8217;s a fair amount of shorter stories in here too, as this is packed for just a regulation size comic.\u00c2\u00a0 Come to think of it, most of the stories in here aren&#8217;t as overtly sappy (re: legitimately romantic) as I first thought, and a bunch of them are clever even when expressing genuine emotions.\u00c2\u00a0 It&#8217;s worth a look, probably even for us jaded types.\u00c2\u00a0 Oh, and generally with the sample I try to capture either the art or the overall tone of the book, but for once I decided to sum up my feelings on the general idea of romance.\u00c2\u00a0 $4<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/romanticeye12.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3880\" title=\"romanticeye12\" src=\"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/romanticeye12.jpg\" alt=\"romanticeye12\" width=\"517\" height=\"786\" srcset=\"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/romanticeye12.jpg 517w, https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/romanticeye12-197x300.jpg 197w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 517px) 100vw, 517px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Website Romantic Eye #1 Is that a great cover or what?\u00c2\u00a0 As always, when it comes to reviewing romantic comics and\/or love stories, how jaded I am will inevitably shine through.\u00c2\u00a0 This doesn&#8217;t say a single negative thing about the quality of the stories, the artwork or the wonder that is people in love&#8230; it [&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":[4012,3916,4014,4015,4011,2263,4013,4016],"class_list":["post-3878","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews","tag-earl-geier","tag-henrik-rehr","tag-john-migliore","tag-larry-blake","tag-mark-innes","tag-romantic-eye","tag-ron-kasman","tag-steve-leblanc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3878","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=3878"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3878\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16439,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3878\/revisions\/16439"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3878"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3878"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3878"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}