{"id":8158,"date":"2010-04-22T09:27:16","date_gmt":"2010-04-22T14:27:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/?p=8158"},"modified":"2010-03-23T15:19:01","modified_gmt":"2010-03-23T20:19:01","slug":"bagnall-john-get-yourself-a-gobstopper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/?p=8158","title":{"rendered":"Bagnall, John &#8211; Get Yourself a Gobstopper"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bagnallsretreat.blogspot.com\/\">Website<\/a><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/images\/gobstopper1.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" hspace=\"0\" align=\"bottom\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Get Yourself a Gobstopper<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>You know what I love? I love the fact that I can come home from a crappy day of work and have a random, wonderful comic waiting for me from the UK. Can&#8217;t beat it. So, I guess I ruined the surprise a bit on this one, huh? So what&#8217;s it about? Do you still want to know after that cover and that sample? OK, fine. It&#8217;s a collection of short snippets, such as disappearing phrases, single pages about different crafts, different places and grumpy people. What I love about this is that he seems to care as much about the characters (granted, not that they&#8217;re allowed to do much in a page or two) as he does about their surroundings. It&#8217;s always great to see this level of detail put into the backgrounds without giving up a bit on the characters. It&#8217;s a bit short, but luckily he sent a few more along with this one, so I should be able to tell you more about his other works in a week or so. $3, or $8 for this and the two other minis he sent&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/images\/gobstopper2.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" hspace=\"0\" align=\"bottom\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Website Get Yourself a Gobstopper You know what I love? I love the fact that I can come home from a crappy day of work and have a random, wonderful comic waiting for me from the UK. Can&#8217;t beat it. So, I guess I ruined the surprise a bit on this one, huh? So what&#8217;s [&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":[577,2479],"class_list":["post-8158","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews","tag-get-yourself-a-gobstopper","tag-john-bagnall"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8158","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=8158"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8158\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8164,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8158\/revisions\/8164"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}