{"id":8284,"date":"2010-04-22T11:42:25","date_gmt":"2010-04-22T16:42:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/?p=8284"},"modified":"2010-03-24T13:04:28","modified_gmt":"2010-03-24T18:04:28","slug":"beland-tom-true-story-swear-to-god-6-mini","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/?p=8284","title":{"rendered":"Beland, Tom &#8211; True Story Swear to God #6 (mini)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.yunque.net\/tom\/Bio_TomBeland.htm\">Website<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/images\/beland.gif\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" width=\"428\" height=\"599\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>True Stories Swear to God #6<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Tom Beland&#8217;s mini was nominated for an Ignatz award for best mini  comic last year, and that&#8217;s one of those instances where the line of  what is and isn&#8217;t a mini gets kind of blurry. This title is basically a  collection of the newspaper-style strip that he does. They&#8217;re mostly  funny in a non-offensive kind of way, but they hardly hold together  enough to win an award for the best mini comic of the year. All that  being said, this is an OK book. It puts a smile on my face and keeps it  there. If you&#8217;re looking for a unique experience (and there are a lot of  them out in mini comic land) then you might want to avoid this, or at  least wait to buy it until you&#8217;re rich. If you&#8217;re looking for an amusing  title that you can read and just be amused for the time that you&#8217;re  reading it, this might be for you.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/images\/11.gif\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" width=\"274\" height=\"201\" \/><\/p>\n<p>E-mail <a href=\"mailto:tom@yunque.net\">Tom Beland<\/a> (he says that he answers  all his e-mails)<\/p>\n<p>Check out <a href=\"http:\/\/www.yunque.net\/tom\/\">his site<\/a> to see some of his  strips, maybe you&#8217;ll like them and a bunch of them are free<\/p>\n<p>If you want to order any of his books, #1-6 are available for $2.25  each from:<\/p>\n<p>True Stories, Swear to God PO Box 9020278<\/p>\n<p>Old San Juan Station San Juan, Puerto Rico, 00902<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Website True Stories Swear to God #6 Tom Beland&#8217;s mini was nominated for an Ignatz award for best mini comic last year, and that&#8217;s one of those instances where the line of what is and isn&#8217;t a mini gets kind of blurry. This title is basically a collection of the newspaper-style strip that he does. [&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":[2504,629],"class_list":["post-8284","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews","tag-tom-beland","tag-true-story-swear-to-god"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8284","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=8284"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8284\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8288,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8284\/revisions\/8288"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}