{"id":8314,"date":"2010-04-22T12:18:59","date_gmt":"2010-04-22T17:18:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/?p=8314"},"modified":"2010-03-24T13:25:36","modified_gmt":"2010-03-24T18:25:36","slug":"bennett-marek-mimis-doughnuts-zine-17","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/?p=8314","title":{"rendered":"Bennett, Marek – Mimi’s Doughnuts Zine #17"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Mimi’s Doughnuts Zine #17<\/strong><\/p>\n

Finally, a non-instructional comic from this man.\u00c2\u00a0 Granted, I do have the hefty collection of stories, but I still haven’t had a chance to get to it.\u00c2\u00a0 Still, this was a nice primer of what to expect from that giant book and, overall, I was pleasantly surprised.\u00c2\u00a0 Anybody who reads this site on even a slightly regular basis knows that the three panel strip is a dangerous thing, often forcing the writer into horrible puns and is rarely a good idea.\u00c2\u00a0 There are exceptions, of course, and just enough of them to make me give them a chance when I see them and not run screaming in the opposite direction.\u00c2\u00a0 This book is an odd combination of all that, as some of the strips are three panels, some of them are the whole page and all of them combine to form a slightly jarring whole.\u00c2\u00a0 That’s the first 16 pages anyway (out of around 40).\u00c2\u00a0 Marek is nice enough to have a recap page to start off, telling us what must be just about everything we need to know.\u00c2\u00a0 The big underlying story after that was of a group of friends dealing with holidays and trying to figure out alternative sources for energy.\u00c2\u00a0 Yes, there is a serious environmental conscience on display here, and if you’re at all like me your cynicism may reach up and grab you by the neck.\u00c2\u00a0 Still, more than a few funny bits and an excellent cast of rejected Christmas mascots won me over (Slushy the Snow Mound in particular is a fantastic idea).\u00c2\u00a0 From here we go to two pages of comics from other contributors (assuming they’re all not just pseudonyms, which, come to think of it, they probably are) dealing with the financial crisis which, again, were actually pretty funny.\u00c2\u00a0 One suggestion though: maybe Marek should put the date of the strips somewhere in them.\u00c2\u00a0 Or somewhere in the book at least, as I could figure out that this was all 2008-2009 from the topical references (and, um, the note in the front that says everything is from 2008-2009) but as these things get older a little more specificity might be nice.\u00c2\u00a0 After all, this is #17, which is an impressive number for this sort of thing, and Marek seems to be very serious about the concept of subscriptions.\u00c2\u00a0 Following this is the heart of the book, a silent story about a farmer trying to make a living with his goods, trying out a deadly chemical to kill off the bugs and then dealing with the consequences.\u00c2\u00a0 Generally speaking it’s not a good thing to have your villains be utterly adorable, but it manages to be a good story regardless.\u00c2\u00a0 Finally there’s one page which is a call for the comics industry to be bailed out as well, to which I would like to wholeheartedly concur.\u00c2\u00a0 Think of the tiny amount of money the government would have to give out to have all the mini comics creators in the world free to make whatever they wanted!\u00c2\u00a0 Not to mention how little it would take for people like me to make this our full time job, bringing the word of decent comics to everyone.\u00c2\u00a0 Just sayin’.\u00c2\u00a0 So: I was pleasantly surprised by this, as I wasn’t at all sure what to expect after the instructional books.\u00c2\u00a0 It might overwhelming in a huge collection, but I will be finding that out for myself in the weeks to come.\u00c2\u00a0 $4<\/p>\n

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Website Mimi’s Doughnuts Zine #17 Finally, a non-instructional comic from this man.\u00c2\u00a0 Granted, I do have the hefty collection of stories, but I still haven’t had a chance to get to it.\u00c2\u00a0 Still, this was a nice primer of what to expect from that giant book and, overall, I was pleasantly surprised.\u00c2\u00a0 Anybody who reads […]<\/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":[2510,636],"class_list":["post-8314","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews","tag-marek-bennett","tag-mimis-doughnuts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8314","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=8314"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8314\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8320,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8314\/revisions\/8320"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8314"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}