{"id":4373,"date":"2010-05-02T11:57:34","date_gmt":"2010-05-02T16:57:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/?p=4373"},"modified":"2010-07-22T22:44:53","modified_gmt":"2010-07-23T03:44:53","slug":"olson-daniel-j-niehaus-aj","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/?p=4373","title":{"rendered":"Olson, Daniel J. & Niehaus, AJ – Super Maxi-Pad Girl #1"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Super Maxi-Pad Girl #1<\/strong><\/p>\n

I have to be honest here: I really didn’t expect to like this one.\u00c2\u00a0 About the best I was hoping for was that it would be a funny concept for a bit, then it would get slowly beaten to death during the course of the comic, and that would be it.\u00c2\u00a0 I was, and not for the first time, completely wrong.\u00c2\u00a0 Things start off with a young girl coming home crying to her mother after she unexpectedly bled in her pants at school. This mother went on to tell the tale of Super Maxi-Pad Girl and her adventures against Bloating, Cramps and The Period.\u00c2\u00a0 While Super Maxi-Pad Girl is effective against The Period, two new heroes have to be introduced for the other problems: Pidol and Mamprin.\u00c2\u00a0 The day is saved and things are calm until the next adventure, which involves new villains: Migraine and Acne.\u00c2\u00a0 The heroes also get new members, such as the Reusable Menstrual Cup, the Preventative Ovulation Pill and Washable Cotton Maxi-Pad, or Eco-Pad.\u00c2\u00a0 Things are trickier this time around, as the villains have released a number of monkeys to eat all the bananas in the city, severely lowering the potassium intake, which leads to the creation of the Mega-Period.\u00c2\u00a0 As if that wasn’t enough, there’s also a final, shorter adventure starring a giantess on her period and Thor.\u00c2\u00a0 As for any complaints from the ladies about this comic, and there probably will be a few, Daniel addresses them in the strip I sampled below.\u00c2\u00a0 Not sure if that will fix everything, but I thought it was a smart way to address it: show himself as more than a bit clueless about the whole thing but with good intentions.\u00c2\u00a0 If you’re thinking that this all sounds remarkably stupid, all I can say is that you have to read this to learn otherwise.\u00c2\u00a0 As a concept it’s bound to sound stupid, but the dialogue is never less than mildly funny (and often hilarious), the art doesn’t need to be great with the simple natures of the characters but it’s plenty good enough, and there were laughs to be found all over the place.\u00c2\u00a0 I can’t say that a Super Maxi-Pad Girl #2 would be great, but this one was so good that I actually think he’d have a shot at making it great, which I couldn’t have said before I actually read this.\u00c2\u00a0 Oh, and one disclaimer: obviously, if you’re completely unable to see any humor in “that time of the month” or anything associated with it, it’s best to stay away.\u00c2\u00a0 As it is, however, a fact of life, why not have a little fun with it?\u00c2\u00a0 $4<\/p>\n

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Website Super Maxi-Pad Girl #1 I have to be honest here: I really didn’t expect to like this one.\u00c2\u00a0 About the best I was hoping for was that it would be a funny concept for a bit, then it would get slowly beaten to death during the course of the comic, and that would be […]<\/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":[3892,3547,1807],"class_list":["post-4373","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews","tag-aj-niehaus","tag-daniel-olson","tag-super-maxi-pad-girl"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4373","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=4373"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4373\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7362,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4373\/revisions\/7362"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}