{"id":8375,"date":"2010-04-22T13:30:28","date_gmt":"2010-04-22T18:30:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/?p=8375"},"modified":"2010-03-24T14:34:45","modified_gmt":"2010-03-24T19:34:45","slug":"bieri-sean-jape-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/?p=8375","title":{"rendered":"Bieri, Sean &#8211; Jape #4"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/themanwhojaped.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Website<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/jape41.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"jape41\" src=\"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/jape41.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"247\" height=\"322\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Jape #4<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>You probably can&#8217;t tell from that scan, but this mini is so old that  it actually has rust on the cover.\u00c2\u00a0 At least I hope that&#8217;s rust&#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 So,  alas, my Japes are not in mint condition, and if the world at large ever  discovers how funny Sean Bieri is, my fortune will not come from  selling his old minis.\u00c2\u00a0 Oh well, I&#8217;d rather not sell them anyway, so  screw you world!\u00c2\u00a0 This issue of Jape, as you can tell, starts off with a  fantastic cover.\u00c2\u00a0 That&#8217;s one thing I always loved about these old  minis: he hit you with his sense of humor right off the bat, and if it  was something you didn&#8217;t like (or that offended you), you knew it before  you even opened the book.\u00c2\u00a0 Stories in here include trying to find  decent comics in a pile of shit (still an apt analogy for the world of  comics), an artistic adaptation of &#8220;Hey Joe&#8221; (or at least I think that&#8217;s  the name of the song, you&#8217;d know it if you heard it but the lyrics  might not do you any good), his cat the physicist (in which he\/she  discovers that knocking things off a shelf will cause them to come  crashing down), and a joke on the last page that was a lot funnier when I  looked up the meaning of the punchline (episiotomy.\u00c2\u00a0 Go ahead, Google  has all kinds of horrific images).\u00c2\u00a0 There&#8217;s also one more story, the  highlight of the issue, dealing with open mic poets.\u00c2\u00a0 Shouting,  whispering, pregnant pauses, repetition, and above all bad acting, this  story nails them thoroughly.\u00c2\u00a0 You could argue that they&#8217;re an easy  target, and that&#8217;s fine, but it doesn&#8217;t make the piece any less funny.\u00c2\u00a0  So overall, except for that song adaptation (which I&#8217;ve never been a fan  of), this is a hell of an issue.\u00c2\u00a0 Please add it to your list of things  to get if you ever have access to a time machine.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/jape42.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"jape42\" src=\"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/jape42.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"325\" height=\"448\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Website Jape #4 You probably can&#8217;t tell from that scan, but this mini is so old that it actually has rust on the cover.\u00c2\u00a0 At least I hope that&#8217;s rust&#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 So, alas, my Japes are not in mint condition, and if the world at large ever discovers how funny Sean Bieri is, my fortune will [&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":[657,2522],"class_list":["post-8375","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews","tag-jape","tag-sean-bieri"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8375","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=8375"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8375\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8386,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8375\/revisions\/8386"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}