{"id":8362,"date":"2010-04-22T13:12:49","date_gmt":"2010-04-22T18:12:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/?p=8362"},"modified":"2010-03-24T14:27:07","modified_gmt":"2010-03-24T19:27:07","slug":"beyer-jr-david-city-under-sand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/?p=8362","title":{"rendered":"Beyer Jr., David &#8211; City Under Sand"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.myspace.com\/beyerbewareproductions\">My Space page<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/cityundersand1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"cityundersand1\" src=\"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/cityundersand1.jpg\" alt=\"cityundersand1\" width=\"254\" height=\"337\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>City Under Sand<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>One thing David managed to nail in this (supposed to be) 24 hour  comic is his excuse for not getting it done in time: he was busy.\u00c2\u00a0  Ta-da!\u00c2\u00a0 That and he had no real plans to do a 24 hour comic; he just  started drawing on the subway one day.\u00c2\u00a0 Still, he managed to get it done  in a week, which is no small thing for a color book.\u00c2\u00a0 At times this  does look like it was done on the subway, as there are heavy, scattered  lines all over the place in the first few pages, requiring the reader to  step back and really examine the panels.\u00c2\u00a0 Or you could take the cynic&#8217;s  view and say that they look rushed, but I think there&#8217;s a very clear  plan behind them.\u00c2\u00a0 This is the silent story of a man who walks through  the desert, makes his way to an underground city and gets on the  subway.\u00c2\u00a0 Things don&#8217;t go very smoothly from there, but I&#8217;m certainly not  going to give it away.\u00c2\u00a0 As for what was going on here, what kind of  world was this, who was the walking man, these are all unaddressed,  which is fine for a one-shot like this.\u00c2\u00a0 Sometimes it&#8217;s better to have  to come up with your own reasons for why everything is happening the way  it is.\u00c2\u00a0 All told it&#8217;s an intriguing book, which is all you can ask for  out of this sort of thing.\u00c2\u00a0 No price, but due to all the color I&#8217;m going  with $2.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/cityundersand2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"cityundersand2\" src=\"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/cityundersand2.jpg\" alt=\"cityundersand2\" width=\"316\" height=\"445\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My Space page City Under Sand One thing David managed to nail in this (supposed to be) 24 hour comic is his excuse for not getting it done in time: he was busy.\u00c2\u00a0 Ta-da!\u00c2\u00a0 That and he had no real plans to do a 24 hour comic; he just started drawing on the subway one [&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":[650,2520],"class_list":["post-8362","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews","tag-city-under-sand","tag-david-beyer-jr"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8362","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=8362"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8362\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8366,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8362\/revisions\/8366"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}