{"id":8695,"date":"2010-04-22T20:12:19","date_gmt":"2010-04-23T01:12:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/?p=8695"},"modified":"2010-03-25T13:43:32","modified_gmt":"2010-03-25T18:43:32","slug":"cates-isaac-wenthe-mike-elm-city-jams-2-with-various-artists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/?p=8695","title":{"rendered":"Cates, Isaac &#038; Wenthe, Mike &#8211; Elm City Jams #2 (with various artists)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/satisfactorycomics.blogspot.com\/\">Website<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/images\/elmcity21.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" hspace=\"0\" align=\"bottom\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Elm City Jams #2 (with various artists)<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/?page_id=3417&amp;category=2&amp;product_id=58\" target=\"_blank\">Now Available!<\/a> $1.50<\/p>\n<p>First, let me clarify that list of &#8220;various artists&#8221;: Linnea Duvall, Tom Hart, Bill Kartalopoulos, Jon Lewis, Tom O&#8217;Donnell, and Jeff Seymour. As always with these jam books, it&#8217;s all about trying new things and still making funny, interesting stories. These could easily devolve into academic exercises and it would be hard to fault anybody involved, but I laughed out loud more than a few times while reading this, and that generally doesn&#8217;t happen for &#8220;academic&#8221; books. The rules for this one are simple and wonderful. An artist can take a title (that they didn&#8217;t make up) and get to work, passing onto somebody else after a panel or two. The rejected titles are hilarious (my favorite being Meat: The Parents), so obviously the ones they did use are even better. The other method is a bit more complex, involving joining individual panels and filling in the blanks to make a coherent story. So how did they do? I don&#8217;t want to spoil a damned thing here, which I suppose is part of my &#8220;job&#8221; as a &#8220;reviewer&#8221;. So, while keeping it as mysterious as possible, some of the concepts here include making a deal with the devil, Bert and Ernie running Halliburton, the devil&#8217;s avocado, space as a mindfuck, robots in trees, a rapping chicken and knight, drowing in a submarine, and a cursed comic. So, to wrap up, what you have here is some of the best names in comics doing various experimental works that all somehow end up funny. What&#8217;s not to love? $2.50<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/images\/elmcity22.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" hspace=\"0\" align=\"bottom\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Website Elm City Jams #2 (with various artists) Now Available! $1.50 First, let me clarify that list of &#8220;various artists&#8221;: Linnea Duvall, Tom Hart, Bill Kartalopoulos, Jon Lewis, Tom O&#8217;Donnell, and Jeff Seymour. As always with these jam books, it&#8217;s all about trying new things and still making funny, interesting stories. These could easily devolve [&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":[786,2597,2599,2600,2596,2598],"class_list":["post-8695","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews","tag-elm-city-jams","tag-isaac-cates","tag-jon-lewis","tag-linnea-duvall","tag-mike-wenthe","tag-tom-hart"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8695","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=8695"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8695\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8705,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8695\/revisions\/8705"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8695"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8695"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8695"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}