{"id":8302,"date":"2010-04-22T12:03:58","date_gmt":"2010-04-22T17:03:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/?p=8302"},"modified":"2010-03-24T13:16:05","modified_gmt":"2010-03-24T18:16:05","slug":"bell-marc-shrimpy-and-paul-and-friends","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/?p=8302","title":{"rendered":"Bell, Marc &#8211; Shrimpy and Paul and Friends"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/marcbelldept.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Website<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/images\/shrimpy.gif\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" width=\"350\" height=\"424\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B000FCEU36?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=xeroxarmy-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;creativeASIN=B000FCEU36\" target=\"_blank\">Shrimpy and Paul and Friends<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>For anybody out there putting together a &#8220;best of&#8221; collection for any  of their characters, this is how you do it. There are strips and  stories in here from many different years, letters from fans, Shrimpy  appearances in other comics, newspaper strips (some in glorious,  glorious color), a cover gallery, even a FAQ. For those of you who have  never been introduced the world of Shrimpy and Paul, well, you no longer  have an excuse. The pages aren&#8217;t numbered, but I&#8217;d guess that it&#8217;s  about 150 pages of great stuff. My favorite story in the universe, &#8220;The  Ball, the Goose, the Power&#8221; is in here, as well as an interconnected  epic that involves Kevin, Chia-Man, Saul (Paul&#8217;s brother who lives in  his nipple), Blimpy, Mushroom Hed, Ib-Ub, Miss Polly, Taco, Mennod,  Lucky E., Sanitation Man-Of-Festo, Tim Horton, Goose, Texas Sheriff,  Mills, Cubby, Mr. Socks, Captain Beige, Mr. Duck Chocolate, Sue, Jambo  Stretch, and Grumpy Man in Small Home. Nobody, and I mean nobody, has  panels as intricate as Marc. It would take you over an hour to skim  through this book, but everything in it is begging to be examined  closely. This is truly one of those books that gets better with every  read, as there are a ton of tiny side characters everywhere that you  miss if you blink. It&#8217;s $16.95, and it&#8217;s one of those books that I&#8217;d  pass out to everybody I knew if I was made of money. The humor might not  be for everybody, I guess, if you don&#8217;t like things that are funny. As  for me, this gets my vote for best collection of the year. Somebody find  this man and give him a regular series, or a newspaper strip, or  something. Talent like this should be rewarded. <a href=\"mailto:shrimpyandpaulandfriends@yahoo.cd\">E-mail address<\/a>!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/images\/shrimpy2.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" width=\"387\" height=\"622\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/images\/shrimpy3.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"636\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Website Shrimpy and Paul and Friends For anybody out there putting together a &#8220;best of&#8221; collection for any of their characters, this is how you do it. There are strips and stories in here from many different years, letters from fans, Shrimpy appearances in other comics, newspaper strips (some in glorious, glorious color), a cover [&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":[2507,630],"class_list":["post-8302","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews","tag-marc-bell","tag-shrimpy-and-paul"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8302","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=8302"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8302\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8306,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8302\/revisions\/8306"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}