{"id":8205,"date":"2010-04-22T10:21:11","date_gmt":"2010-04-22T15:21:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/?p=8205"},"modified":"2010-03-23T17:20:14","modified_gmt":"2010-03-23T22:20:14","slug":"baumann-suzanne-the-moldy-bagels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/?p=8205","title":{"rendered":"Baumann, Suzanne &#8211; The Moldy Bagels"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/home.comcast.net\/~sbaumann2012\/index.html\">Website<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/moldya1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"moldya1\" src=\"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/moldya1.jpg\" alt=\"moldya1\" width=\"327\" height=\"261\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>The Moldy Bagels<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>You know, I don&#8217;t think Suzanne is capable of making a mini comic  that isn&#8217;t at least mildly amusing.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 This is from 1998, proving that  she keeps herself in some sort of cryogenic stasis when not attending  cons, as she looks exactly the same as the first time I bought a few of  her minis.\u00c2\u00a0 This time around the story is about a young woman who wakes  up and prepares to make a bagel.\u00c2\u00a0 Sadly all of the bagels are moldy, she  has a breakfast of cream cheese and runs off to the park to feed the  bagels to the birds.\u00c2\u00a0 The birds end up getting more than a little  excited by the feast and end up inadvertently helping the woman out.\u00c2\u00a0  This is almost a silent comic, with the few words coming (appropriately  enough) like they were done in the old silent movies, with blocks of  letters describing the action after every half dozen panels or so.\u00c2\u00a0 It&#8217;s  a really engaging way of telling the story and made me wonder why more  people haven&#8217;t tried doing their silent comic like this.\u00c2\u00a0 It&#8217;s worth  checking out, although as always you&#8217;d probably be better off just  sending her $5 and asking for a pile of minis.\u00c2\u00a0 $1<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/moldybagels21.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"moldybagels21\" src=\"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/moldybagels21.jpg\" alt=\"moldybagels21\" width=\"422\" height=\"316\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Website The Moldy Bagels You know, I don&#8217;t think Suzanne is capable of making a mini comic that isn&#8217;t at least mildly amusing.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 This is from 1998, proving that she keeps herself in some sort of cryogenic stasis when not attending cons, as she looks exactly the same as the first time I bought a [&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":[2486,614],"class_list":["post-8205","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews","tag-suzanne-baumann","tag-the-moldy-bagels"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8205","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=8205"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8205\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8217,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8205\/revisions\/8217"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}