{"id":8862,"date":"2010-04-22T23:27:11","date_gmt":"2010-04-23T04:27:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/?p=8862"},"modified":"2010-03-26T11:25:05","modified_gmt":"2010-03-26T16:25:05","slug":"clancy-kelly-children-god-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/?p=8862","title":{"rendered":"Clancy, Kelly – Children & God #2"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Children & God #2<\/strong><\/p>\n

It looks like I never even mentioned in my last review the role of Islam and the Quran in these comics, even though it’s a fairly constant theme.\u00c2\u00a0 Hey, that’s why they pay me the big bucks, that level of attention to detail.\u00c2\u00a0 The second issue of this series is a bit less dense but still packed with more than a few fascinating observations.\u00c2\u00a0 Topics in this one include the horrors of war, donating a soccer ball to an “ungrateful” Iraqi child, blue lips, a spitting baby, a buttercup as a medical aid, the oppression that wasn’t glamorous enough to make the evening news, the idea of outer space as a purely hypothetical area, and a self-contained story dealing with x-ray specs as a child and believing in them fully.\u00c2\u00a0 I should mention too that all these concepts bleed into each other (except for that last story), constantly overlapping and expanding on each other.\u00c2\u00a0 It’s a mesmerizing thing to watch.\u00c2\u00a0 There’s one more concept explored in here: creation.\u00c2\u00a0 Of the world, that is.\u00c2\u00a0 The Christian idea is rightly mocked, and the Muslim story… well, I checked a bit online and the one I’m seeing is more like the Christian version, but the 0ne given in here as “laid down on our tongues” is flat out crazy.\u00c2\u00a0 Is that an intolerant thing to say?\u00c2\u00a0 Does it make it more or less OK if I say that I think all creation stories outside of the scientific one are equally crazy?\u00c2\u00a0 Anyway, the end of the story given here is that the Guardian of paradise gives the inhabitants some grain to eat (after having never eaten), they crap it out (as humans do with food), then tried to hide the feces in their shame.\u00c2\u00a0 God, being all-powerful and all, smelled it (which they were trying to hide under their armpits), and kicked them out of paradise.\u00c2\u00a0 For crapping.\u00c2\u00a0 I’m going to assume that that’s more of an old legend than the official version of the creation of the world, and if it’s entirely made up by Kelly than kudos, as it’s brilliant.\u00c2\u00a0 Insightful, politcal and timely, comics this good don’t come out every day.\u00c2\u00a0 $5<\/p>\n

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Website Children & God #2 It looks like I never even mentioned in my last review the role of Islam and the Quran in these comics, even though it’s a fairly constant theme.\u00c2\u00a0 Hey, that’s why they pay me the big bucks, that level of attention to detail.\u00c2\u00a0 The second issue of this series is […]<\/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":[846,2618],"class_list":["post-8862","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews","tag-children-god","tag-kelly-clancy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8862","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=8862"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8862\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8865,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8862\/revisions\/8865"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8862"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8862"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8862"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}