{"id":4469,"date":"2010-05-02T14:42:10","date_gmt":"2010-05-02T19:42:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/?p=4469"},"modified":"2010-07-22T22:44:45","modified_gmt":"2010-07-23T03:44:45","slug":"skinner-l","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/?p=4469","title":{"rendered":"Skinner, L. – Fitcher’s Bride"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Fitcher’s Bride<\/strong><\/p>\n

To those of you who think that what the world needs now is a modern reinterpretation of the Bluebeard story, your prayers have been answered!\u00c2\u00a0 To those of who are a bit more ambivalent about the question but still enjoy a good 24 hour comic, you’re in luck as well.\u00c2\u00a0 Looks like L. managed to finish this with about 3 hours to spare, not a bad total for one of these things.\u00c2\u00a0 As is always the case, the art looks more than a little rushed and some of the lettering is bursting at the seams, but a good story trumps all that.\u00c2\u00a0 This is the story of three sisters, told from the perspective of the one pragmatic sister in the bunch.\u00c2\u00a0 They’re cleverly named (either by familial nicknames or through an impressive lack of interest in such things by the author) Bird (the main character), Sister One and Sister Two.\u00c2\u00a0 Sister One dates a man for about a month before deciding to get married, much to the chagrin of Bird.\u00c2\u00a0 They are both “lost at sea”, but Bird can’t shake the feeling that she’s going to see the husband again.\u00c2\u00a0 She does when he’s courting Sister Two, who can’t seem to see the resemblance between this man and the one who “died” with her sister.\u00c2\u00a0 They’re married, they both “die” in a house fire, and Bird decides to do her level best to make sure the man pays.\u00c2\u00a0 Her means of accomplishing this turns out to be through marrying him, hoping to learn his secrets before he manages to kill her.\u00c2\u00a0 She eventually learns more than she bargained for, and if I don’t quit now you’ll know the whole comic.\u00c2\u00a0 Most of the 24 hour books I see are a bit fluffy, plot-wise, but this one has heft.\u00c2\u00a0 Plenty of panels, and even if things seem roughly sketched out at times there’s still an impressive attention to detail. Worth checking out, and is often the case when I see a 24 hour book by somebody new now I can’t wait to see what they can do when they’re not under a self-imposed deadline. $2<\/p>\n

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Website Fitcher’s Bride To those of you who think that what the world needs now is a modern reinterpretation of the Bluebeard story, your prayers have been answered!\u00c2\u00a0 To those of who are a bit more ambivalent about the question but still enjoy a good 24 hour comic, you’re in luck as well.\u00c2\u00a0 Looks like […]<\/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":[2061,3945],"class_list":["post-4469","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews","tag-fitchers-bride","tag-l-skinner"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4469","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=4469"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4469\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16510,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4469\/revisions\/16510"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}