{"id":8502,"date":"2010-04-22T16:12:07","date_gmt":"2010-04-22T21:12:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/?p=8502"},"modified":"2010-03-24T16:17:42","modified_gmt":"2010-03-24T21:17:42","slug":"brookes-gareth-man-man-and-friends-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/?p=8502","title":{"rendered":"Brookes, Gareth &#8211; Man Man and Friends #3"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ditcb.co.uk\/banalpig\" target=\"_blank\">Old Website<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.appallingnonsense.co.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\">New  Website<\/a><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/images\/manman31.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" align=\"bottom\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Man Man and Friends #3<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Nope, I&#8217;m officially not even close to being sick of this book. I laughed out loud at something on almost every page in this issue, something I can&#8217;t remember doing with a comic in years. Man Man and Woman Woman still make their appearances, but the highlights of this issue go to the &#8220;friends&#8221;. We get the origin story of the prudish lightswitch, the shitting ghost gets misunderstood, the Mere Trifle&#8217;s disillusionment with politics and lack of faith in his sex appeal, Ra Man&#8217;s miserable (because it&#8217;s drug-free) trip around the world, and the origin story of the uncompromising compass. Single Man Man (not to be confused with Man Man) is a sad and lonely figure, chatting up a woman with a boyfriend and checking out women on escalators. Meanwhile Man Man and Woman Woman have their share of adventures, but I&#8217;m on the verge of telling you everything in this issue. It&#8217;s either the strongest of the bunch or it&#8217;s just been a few months since I&#8217;ve seen one of these and the humor is fresh and new again, although I&#8217;m almost certain it&#8217;s the best one yet. Check out the website and seriously, send the man a pile of money. A few of the jokes get lost in translation (like Man Man&#8217;s evolving record collection over the years, filled with groups I&#8217;ve never heard of), but overall it&#8217;s nonstop funny.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/images\/manman32.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" align=\"bottom\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Old Website New Website Man Man and Friends #3 Nope, I&#8217;m officially not even close to being sick of this book. I laughed out loud at something on almost every page in this issue, something I can&#8217;t remember doing with a comic in years. Man Man and Woman Woman still make their appearances, but the [&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":[2552,714],"class_list":["post-8502","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews","tag-gareth-brookes","tag-man-man-and-friends"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8502","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=8502"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8502\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8512,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8502\/revisions\/8512"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8502"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8502"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}