{"id":8173,"date":"2010-04-22T09:45:08","date_gmt":"2010-04-22T14:45:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/?p=8173"},"modified":"2010-05-02T13:44:45","modified_gmt":"2010-05-02T18:44:45","slug":"barnes-e-j","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/?p=8173","title":{"rendered":"Barnes, E.J. &#8211; Tales of the Ling Master #1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ejbarnes.com\/\">Website<\/a><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/images\/talesoftheling11.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Tales of the Ling Master #1<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Apparently EJ is putting a bunch of these minis together into a collected book of the work of &#8220;Blaster&#8221; Al Ackerman. Also, I guessed incorrectly, as EJ is a she and not a he. Whoops! Not the first mistake I&#8217;ve ever made and it certainly won&#8217;t be the last. Anyway, this particular volume (and I, Stallion is also included in that list of Al Ackerman stories, in case I didn&#8217;t make that clear) is about a man who&#8217;s obsessed with bread dolls and eventually decides to make one of the size and shape of a young boy. He decides to show his friend, the reclusive detective known as The Ling Master, once he discovers signs of life coming from the doll, and that&#8217;s when the Vug-Randolphs get involved. Honestly, I&#8217;m fascinated with Al Ackerman now, and that&#8217;s not meant to take anything away from EJ, who does a fantastic job of interpreting his stories. Or at least it looks like she does to me, as it&#8217;s hard to tell without reading the short stories. Still, the comics are completely original, which is never a bad thing, and there&#8217;s more to come in this same vein, which is also not a bad thing. It&#8217;s only $1, so it&#8217;s worth the risk to check out, at least I think it is. Contact info is up there, send her an e-mail!<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/images\/talesoftheling12.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Website Tales of the Ling Master #1 Apparently EJ is putting a bunch of these minis together into a collected book of the work of &#8220;Blaster&#8221; Al Ackerman. Also, I guessed incorrectly, as EJ is a she and not a he. Whoops! Not the first mistake I&#8217;ve ever made and it certainly won&#8217;t be 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":[2482,597],"class_list":["post-8173","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews","tag-e-j-barnes","tag-tales-of-the-ling-master"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8173","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=8173"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8173\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8180,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8173\/revisions\/8180"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}