{"id":8643,"date":"2010-04-22T18:57:38","date_gmt":"2010-04-22T23:57:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/?p=8643"},"modified":"2010-06-21T12:25:08","modified_gmt":"2010-06-21T17:25:08","slug":"cardini-william-tranz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/?p=8643","title":{"rendered":"Cardini, William (aka Mark Hensel) &#8211; Tranz"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/hypercastle.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Website<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/trape1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"trape1\" src=\"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/trape1.jpg\" alt=\"trape1\" width=\"330\" height=\"513\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Tranz<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>If anybody out there has a better guess at the title than that, let me know.\u00c2\u00a0 I&#8217;m just guessing based on the first word, and then it starts melting, so who knows?\u00c2\u00a0 This is a mini by William Cardini aka Mark Hensel, but the website listed (which is not actually his website but will connect you with his wide array of blogs) has a comic done by both William Cardini AND Mark Hensel and no, I have no idea what that means.\u00c2\u00a0 I&#8217;m stalling the actual review here because, in fitting with the general theme of confusion going on here, I have no idea what to make of it.\u00c2\u00a0 This is a series of one page strips with various creatures and items melting, meditating, growing or blooming, with a three page extravaganza dedicated to an utterly indescribable creature replicating.\u00c2\u00a0 In each of these stories the creature\/item starts off normally enough, then progressively devolves as the short strip goes on.\u00c2\u00a0 Everything looks great and William\/Mark is certainly not short on imagination, I guess I&#8217;m just more old fashioned in my comics reading, what with my general preference for linear stories and all.\u00c2\u00a0 Still, there&#8217;s a lot to be said with the &#8220;where the hell is this going to go from here?&#8221; school of making comics, and I&#8217;m all kinds of intrigued to see what he does next and what he&#8217;s already done that might or might not be more accessible than this to the common folk.\u00c2\u00a0 If you have a decent sense of artistic adventure this is worth checking out, but I&#8217;d recommend checking around that website and getting a look around first.\u00c2\u00a0 $2.50<\/p>\n<p>UPDATE: The title is Tranz.\u00c2\u00a0 Yeah, I can kind of see that&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/trape2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"trape2\" src=\"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/trape2.jpg\" alt=\"trape2\" width=\"418\" height=\"637\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Website Tranz If anybody out there has a better guess at the title than that, let me know.\u00c2\u00a0 I&#8217;m just guessing based on the first word, and then it starts melting, so who knows?\u00c2\u00a0 This is a mini by William Cardini aka Mark Hensel, but the website listed (which is not actually his website but [&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":[789,2585],"class_list":["post-8643","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews","tag-tranz","tag-william-cardini"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8643","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=8643"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8643\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8648,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8643\/revisions\/8648"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8643"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8643"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8643"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}