{"id":5514,"date":"2009-04-27T21:30:03","date_gmt":"2009-04-28T02:30:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/?p=5514"},"modified":"2010-04-27T15:28:00","modified_gmt":"2010-04-27T20:28:00","slug":"jo-hellen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/?p=5514","title":{"rendered":"Jo, Hellen &#8211; Jin &#038; Jam #1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.helllllen.org\" target=\"_blank\">Website<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/jin11.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5515\" title=\"jin11\" src=\"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/jin11.jpg\" alt=\"jin11\" width=\"354\" height=\"470\" srcset=\"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/jin11.jpg 354w, https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/jin11-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 354px) 100vw, 354px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Jin &amp; Jam #1 <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/?page_id=3417&amp;category=1&amp;product_id=423\">Now Available<\/a>!\u00c2\u00a0 $5<strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Are you one of the many comics readers who constantly thinks &#8220;these little books of words and pictures are fine, but what I&#8217;m really looking for is a big old fight scene involving pair of teenage conjoined twins&#8221;?\u00c2\u00a0 If so, you have finally hit the jackpot.\u00c2\u00a0 This issue seems to be basically an introduction to the characters, and it&#8217;s a very honest way of showing this without ending up being pretentious or sappy.\u00c2\u00a0 Jin is hanging out with her friend Hank outside of a church, smoking and eating.\u00c2\u00a0 There&#8217;s a lot of eating in this comic, now that I think about it.\u00c2\u00a0 Anyway, Jam is in the church and decides to get some air.\u00c2\u00a0 She runs into the two outside the church, she tells them they can&#8217;t be there, a cigarette is offered (and snuck into a Bible) and a friendship begins, although neither of them seems to be aware of this fact.\u00c2\u00a0 Later they run into each other at school when Jin hears about a fight and comes down to check it out.\u00c2\u00a0 It&#8217;s Jam versus the conjoined twins, and it a knock-down drag-out type of thing.\u00c2\u00a0 I&#8217;ve already said way too much about this comic, but, speaking as a boy, it&#8217;s a fascinating peek into a world I know next to nothing about.\u00c2\u00a0 That being said, these two becoming friends isn&#8217;t much different from what I experienced growing up, so I am quite possibly full of it.\u00c2\u00a0 Either way it makes for a good story.\u00c2\u00a0 Here&#8217;s hoping there&#8217;s more to come with these two.\u00c2\u00a0 Oh, and if you&#8217;re as weird as I am and noticed the extra &#8220;L&#8221; in Hellen&#8217;s name, you&#8217;ll be happy to know that she&#8217;s well aware of that and played it up a bit with her website.\u00c2\u00a0 Go on and click it, you know that made you curious. $5<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/jin12.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5516\" title=\"jin12\" src=\"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/jin12.jpg\" alt=\"jin12\" width=\"473\" height=\"607\" srcset=\"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/jin12.jpg 473w, https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/jin12-233x300.jpg 233w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 473px) 100vw, 473px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Website Jin &amp; Jam #1 Now Available!\u00c2\u00a0 $5 Are you one of the many comics readers who constantly thinks &#8220;these little books of words and pictures are fine, but what I&#8217;m really looking for is a big old fight scene involving pair of teenage conjoined twins&#8221;?\u00c2\u00a0 If so, you have finally hit the jackpot.\u00c2\u00a0 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":[3733,1364],"class_list":["post-5514","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews","tag-hellen-jo","tag-jin-jam"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5514","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=5514"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5514\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6942,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5514\/revisions\/6942"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}