{"id":8662,"date":"2010-04-22T19:21:32","date_gmt":"2010-04-23T00:21:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/?p=8662"},"modified":"2010-03-25T13:15:22","modified_gmt":"2010-03-25T18:15:22","slug":"castro-edgar-hojuween","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/?p=8662","title":{"rendered":"Castro, Edgar &#8211; Hojuween"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.myspace.com\/hoju_00\" target=\"_blank\">Website<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/hojuween1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"hojuween1\" src=\"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/hojuween1.jpg\" alt=\"hojuween1\" width=\"494\" height=\"642\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Hojuween <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/?page_id=3417&amp;category=1&amp;product_id=416\">Now Available<\/a>!\u00c2\u00a0 $.50<\/p>\n<p>Well, at least the price is appropriate.\u00c2\u00a0 Don&#8217;t get me wrong, this comic has more than a few fun moments and I actually thought the coloring looked good.\u00c2\u00a0 The trouble is that (with the odd exception of the page I sampled) most of the text looked like he filled it in on the way to Kinko&#8217;s.\u00c2\u00a0 Words are way outside the bubbles, errors have just been scratched out, you can even see him scratching out a letter on the cover!\u00c2\u00a0 I&#8217;ll never understand why people who spend so much time on the art (and in this case color) can&#8217;t spend an extra half hour or so to make sure the simple things work.\u00c2\u00a0 OK soapbox, you can leave the room now.\u00c2\u00a0 The story is a simple 6 page thing which involves the gang, of course, going trick or treating.\u00c2\u00a0 They threaten a neighbor, Hoju runs into an evil clown and a good time is generally had by all.\u00c2\u00a0 I probably shouldn&#8217;t be so hard on him, as this is from 2002, but it&#8217;s such an easy fix: make the word balloons bigger.\u00c2\u00a0 Ta-da!\u00c2\u00a0 Still, it&#8217;s not bad for the price and kudos to him for coloring this thing.\u00c2\u00a0 In other words, if you like his other stuff, splurge a little and get this.\u00c2\u00a0 If not, try some of his more recent work first.\u00c2\u00a0 $.50<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/hojuween2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"hojuween2\" src=\"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/hojuween2.jpg\" alt=\"hojuween2\" width=\"613\" height=\"801\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Website Hojuween Now Available!\u00c2\u00a0 $.50 Well, at least the price is appropriate.\u00c2\u00a0 Don&#8217;t get me wrong, this comic has more than a few fun moments and I actually thought the coloring looked good.\u00c2\u00a0 The trouble is that (with the odd exception of the page I sampled) most of the text looked like he filled it [&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":[2591,793],"class_list":["post-8662","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews","tag-edgar-castro","tag-hojuween"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8662","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=8662"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8662\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8667,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8662\/revisions\/8667"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8662"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8662"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8662"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}