{"id":8956,"date":"2010-04-23T01:06:17","date_gmt":"2010-04-23T06:06:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/?p=8956"},"modified":"2010-03-26T12:53:03","modified_gmt":"2010-03-26T17:53:03","slug":"connor-leighton-esoterica-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/?p=8956","title":{"rendered":"Connor, Leighton &#8211; Esoterica #1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bewilderingstories.com\/issue171\/connor_welcome.html\" target=\"_blank\">Website<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/images\/esoterica11.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" width=\"316\" height=\"512\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Esoterica #1 (Leighton Connor only)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s an odd story about catching fairies. Um, maybe I should explain a bit more than that. There&#8217;s a class at the local college called &#8220;Esoterica&#8221;. It&#8217;s meant to teach all sorts of odds and ends, with the first assignment being that everyone has to catch a pixie. The cast of characters is six people, all of whom we see in some form or another, which serves to go a long way to set these characters up. I don&#8217;t know if this is going to end up being some sort of X-Files style mystery show, with different odd things going on each issue, or where this is headed, but it has potential. My problem is that&#8217;s where my feelings of this are: that it has potential. I don&#8217;t know if it was the complete lack of backgrounds, or maybe just the fact that he&#8217;s taking his time setting up the characters and the story so there&#8217;s not supposed to be a big &#8220;hook&#8221; this time around. Either way, I&#8217;m not sold that this is a great thing, but it sure could end up there. Great cover, anyway, that&#8217;s for sure. It&#8217;s $3, send <a href=\"mailto:esotericacomics@hotmail.com\">an e-mail<\/a> to see if this guy is planning on taking over the world or what.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/images\/esoterica12.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" width=\"479\" height=\"754\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Website Esoterica #1 (Leighton Connor only) Here&#8217;s an odd story about catching fairies. Um, maybe I should explain a bit more than that. There&#8217;s a class at the local college called &#8220;Esoterica&#8221;. It&#8217;s meant to teach all sorts of odds and ends, with the first assignment being that everyone has to catch a pixie. The [&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":[876,2632],"class_list":["post-8956","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews","tag-esoterica","tag-leighton-connor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8956","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=8956"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8956\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8959,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8956\/revisions\/8959"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8956"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8956"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8956"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}