{"id":8770,"date":"2010-04-22T21:36:52","date_gmt":"2010-04-23T02:36:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/?p=8770"},"modified":"2010-06-23T13:18:04","modified_gmt":"2010-06-23T18:18:04","slug":"cattapan-brian-vampires-need-love-too-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/?p=8770","title":{"rendered":"Cattapan, Brian &#8211; Vampires Need Love Too! #3"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cattapancomics.com\" target=\"_blank\">Website<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/vampires31.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"vampires31\" src=\"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/vampires31.jpg\" alt=\"vampires31\" width=\"319\" height=\"513\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Vampires Need Love Too #3 <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/?page_id=3417&amp;category=1&amp;product_id=411\" target=\"_blank\">Now Available<\/a>!\u00c2\u00a0 $3<\/p>\n<p>Do you people still scroll all the way down this page when I mention the updates?\u00c2\u00a0 Brian is going to change the way these pages are set up all by himself if he keeps this up.\u00c2\u00a0 And, seeing as how he&#8217;s been sending me these comics for most of the life of the site at this point, I don&#8217;t see him slowing down any time soon.\u00c2\u00a0 This comic, like the last two, is comprised of daily strips, so the story kind of comes and goes.\u00c2\u00a0 At times he seems to be focusing on a larger piece, then it stops abruptly and veers off in a different direction.\u00c2\u00a0 There are still a few funny bits and a few groaners (nature of the beast with the pun-oriented strips), but the funny does outweigh the groaners and I like the new zombie roommate.\u00c2\u00a0 Subjects in here include having the Grim Reaper as a friend, moaning about a lack of love life, a stoner\/drunk turned into a zombie and his friends being unable to tell the difference (that one was a bit heavy-handed), being in a blues band, what&#8217;s really in your coffee, the difficulty of giving death gifts, stalking vs. courting, and being stuck with a vampire stereotype.\u00c2\u00a0 I should also mention (in case I never have on this vast page) that Brian has been getting other artists to do representation of his characters for a while now, and this time around gets Graham Annable and Matt Metzler to do some damned impressive work.\u00c2\u00a0 Check out the pile of free samples on his website if you need convincing, and it&#8217;s linked way up at the top of the page.\u00c2\u00a0 $3<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/vampires32.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"vampires32\" src=\"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/vampires32.jpg\" alt=\"vampires32\" width=\"435\" height=\"611\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Website Vampires Need Love Too #3 Now Available!\u00c2\u00a0 $3 Do you people still scroll all the way down this page when I mention the updates?\u00c2\u00a0 Brian is going to change the way these pages are set up all by himself if he keeps this up.\u00c2\u00a0 And, seeing as how he&#8217;s been sending me these comics [&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":[2606,802],"class_list":["post-8770","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews","tag-brian-cattapan","tag-vampires-need-love-too"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8770","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=8770"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8770\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15269,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8770\/revisions\/15269"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8770"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8770"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8770"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}