{"id":8503,"date":"2010-04-22T16:15:08","date_gmt":"2010-04-22T21:15:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/?p=8503"},"modified":"2010-03-24T16:18:39","modified_gmt":"2010-03-24T21:18:39","slug":"brookes-gareth-man-man-and-friends-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/?p=8503","title":{"rendered":"Brookes, Gareth &#8211; Man Man and Friends #4"},"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><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/manman41.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"manman41\" src=\"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/manman41.jpg\" alt=\"manman41\" width=\"349\" height=\"470\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Man Man and Friends #4<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a testament to Gareth&#8217;s skills that he&#8217;s able to keep this  series fresh and interesting.\u00c2\u00a0 I mean, a stick figure man and his  friends, talking about life and relationships, and managing to never get  preachy of annoying?\u00c2\u00a0 That&#8217;s takes talent.\u00c2\u00a0 Once again I had a hard  time picking out just one sample, and once again I laughed out loud more  than a few times.\u00c2\u00a0 Stories in here include the shitting ghost getting  startled, man man deciding to make woman woman instigate sex for once, a  couple of hilarious bits about things his mother said when he was a kid  versus what she says about the same things now, trying to meet up  outside a mall when they all look exactly the same, ra man &#8220;saving&#8221; a  party with weed, Mr. Shit, unhappy lawnmowers, and one of the pitfalls  of speed dating.\u00c2\u00a0 There&#8217;s also a page where Gareth draws things that are  not stick-related (it turns out he&#8217;s quite good at it) and quite  possibly the highlight of the strip: the vicious triangle of alcohol,  work and women.\u00c2\u00a0 At this point I&#8217;ve been talking up this series for  years, so at least a few of you have already checked out his work, but  for those of you who haven&#8217;t: send the man some money and buy some of  his comics.\u00c2\u00a0 It&#8217;s stuff like this that made me want to do the website in  the first place.\u00c2\u00a0 He also sent along a couple of &#8220;regular&#8221; mini comics,  which I&#8217;ll be getting to in the coming weeks.\u00c2\u00a0 They can&#8217;t possibly be  as funny as these minis&#8230; right?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/manman42.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"manman42\" src=\"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/manman42.jpg\" alt=\"manman42\" width=\"444\" height=\"601\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Old Website New Website Man Man and Friends #4 It&#8217;s a testament to Gareth&#8217;s skills that he&#8217;s able to keep this series fresh and interesting.\u00c2\u00a0 I mean, a stick figure man and his friends, talking about life and relationships, and managing to never get preachy of annoying?\u00c2\u00a0 That&#8217;s takes talent.\u00c2\u00a0 Once again I had a [&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-8503","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\/8503","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=8503"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8503\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8514,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8503\/revisions\/8514"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}