{"id":7950,"date":"2010-04-22T06:15:22","date_gmt":"2010-04-22T11:15:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/?p=7950"},"modified":"2010-03-23T10:51:29","modified_gmt":"2010-03-23T15:51:29","slug":"abadzis-nick-the-magic-skateboard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/?p=7950","title":{"rendered":"Abadzis, Nick &#8211; The Magic Skateboard"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nickabadzis.com\/\">Website<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/images\/magic1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"430\" height=\"660\" \/> <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>The Magic Skateboard <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/?page_id=3417&amp;category=2&amp;product_id=3\" target=\"_blank\">Now Available!<\/a> $8.50<strong> <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Any complaints I might have had in the last volume about the whole  thing being too grounded in reality were completely removed in this one.  The story here is that the kids get a magic skateboard with a cryptic  message on how to get to Plabbu after the original gateway is  accidentally destroyed. Here, really, is the first time that the true  complexity of the world that they&#8217;re dealing with is revealed, as they  see a talking lion, a giant frog and a dragon, among many other things  are too complex for their childish minds, but which might get a chuckle  out of some of older folks. Also, I have to say that that skateboard,  for whatever reason, is now my favorite character in the series. It  doesn&#8217;t say anything intelligible, it&#8217;s just something about those eyes.  Anyway, this is the best book of the series by far, and that&#8217;s saying  quite a bit. This isn&#8217;t one of those series where you don&#8217;t need to read  the other books, though, as there is no recap that I can see and  everything that the kids do is assuming that you know what happened in  the previous books. I hope he&#8217;s planning more of these (I see this was  done in 2001) and I hope more people start to stand up and take notice,  because there aren&#8217;t enough quality comics out there for children.  Contact info is up there, get ahold of him or ask me for some of the  copies he sent my way&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/images\/magic2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"552\" height=\"932\" \/> <\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Website The Magic Skateboard Now Available! $8.50 Any complaints I might have had in the last volume about the whole thing being too grounded in reality were completely removed in this one. The story here is that the kids get a magic skateboard with a cryptic message on how to get to Plabbu after the [&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":[2453,509],"class_list":["post-7950","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews","tag-nick-abadzis","tag-the-magic-skateboard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7950","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=7950"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7950\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7957,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7950\/revisions\/7957"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7950"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7950"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7950"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}