{"id":8547,"date":"2010-04-22T17:03:57","date_gmt":"2010-04-22T22:03:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/?p=8547"},"modified":"2010-03-24T16:38:59","modified_gmt":"2010-03-24T21:38:59","slug":"brubaker-elijah-reich-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/?p=8547","title":{"rendered":"Brubaker, Elijah &#8211; Reich #4"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.elijahbrubaker.com\/\">Website<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/reich41.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"reich41\" src=\"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/reich41.jpg\" alt=\"reich41\" width=\"355\" height=\"540\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Reich #4 <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/?page_id=3417&amp;category=1&amp;product_id=418\">Now  Available!<\/a> $4<\/p>\n<p>I can see that it&#8217;s been just about a year since I updated this page,  but Elijah has clearly been working the whole time, putting out three  new issues.\u00c2\u00a0 In the world of small press comics, that&#8217;s an avalanche of  issues, and it remains one of the most fascinating series out there.\u00c2\u00a0 In  this issue we learn that Wilhelm&#8217;s mother cheated when he was a young  boy (and we see how his father would alternately nurse her back to  health after her suicide attempts and beat her when she was healthy  enough to take it), we start to see some of the political unrest of the  time with a huge protest and a massacre by the police, and of course we  get more conversation about Wilhelm&#8217;s theories of sexuality and how to  become &#8220;genitally healthy&#8221;.\u00c2\u00a0 Elijah does take one liberty in this issue,  as Wilhelm gets involved in a confrontation on the street between a  one-armed beggar and the police (that never, theoretically, happened),  but it helps frame the riots later in the issue.\u00c2\u00a0 This series has the  potential to be mentioned in the same sentences as some of the greats of  the genre if Elijah keeps this up, as this is the sort of thing you  could show anyone and have them get instantly engrossed.\u00c2\u00a0 It&#8217;s really  not to be missed.\u00c2\u00a0 $4<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/reich42.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"reich42\" src=\"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/reich42.jpg\" alt=\"reich42\" width=\"461\" height=\"717\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Website Reich #4 Now Available! $4 I can see that it&#8217;s been just about a year since I updated this page, but Elijah has clearly been working the whole time, putting out three new issues.\u00c2\u00a0 In the world of small press comics, that&#8217;s an avalanche of issues, and it remains one of the most fascinating [&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":[2570,721,722],"class_list":["post-8547","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews","tag-elijah-brubaker","tag-reich","tag-wilhelm-reich"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8547","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=8547"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8547\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8554,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8547\/revisions\/8554"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}