{"id":9052,"date":"2010-04-23T03:12:42","date_gmt":"2010-04-23T08:12:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/?p=9052"},"modified":"2010-03-26T13:59:09","modified_gmt":"2010-03-26T18:59:09","slug":"cotter-joshua-skyscrapers-of-the-midwest-adhouse-edition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/?p=9052","title":{"rendered":"Cotter, Joshua &#8211; Skyscrapers of the Midwest (Adhouse edition)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"mailto:panophobe@hotmail.com\">E-mail<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.adhousebooks.com\/comics\/sky2.html\" target=\"_blank\">Website<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/images\/skyscrapers221.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" hspace=\"0\" align=\"bottom\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Skyscrapers of the Midwest #2 (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.adhousebooks.com\/\">Adhouse edition<\/a>)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Just to make this perfectly clear, this is all new material, put together in a lovely comic (have you seen a bad looking Adhouse book? I didn&#8217;t think so). It&#8217;s just a bit confusing on this page because Joshua already went the mini comic route, and now he&#8217;s &#8220;big time&#8221;. As for this comic, granted, it&#8217;s been years since I&#8217;ve seen the minis, but this is a wonderful thing. Everything ties together, even the characters in the Sunday funnies. It&#8217;s all about a boy who&#8217;s getting baptized even though he doesn&#8217;t much believe in religion, a woman with migraines sent from God (who looks a lot like a Cylon, if you&#8217;re dorky enough to watch Battlestar Gallactica like me), white trash love, and a cat and a mouse (and wait&#8217;ll you see which part of that turns out to be tragic). Sad and beautiful at the same time, it&#8217;s the best self-contained comic I&#8217;ve read so far in 2007. Granted, it&#8217;s early, and this was put out in 2005, but you get the idea. Well worth the $5, and a great introduction to his work if you&#8217;re never heard of Joshua Cotter somehow&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/images\/skyscrapers222.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" hspace=\"0\" align=\"bottom\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>E-mail Website Skyscrapers of the Midwest #2 (Adhouse edition) Just to make this perfectly clear, this is all new material, put together in a lovely comic (have you seen a bad looking Adhouse book? I didn&#8217;t think so). It&#8217;s just a bit confusing on this page because Joshua already went the mini comic route, and [&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":[2654,2653,900],"class_list":["post-9052","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews","tag-adhouse","tag-joshua-cotter","tag-skyscrapers-of-the-midwest"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9052","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=9052"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9052\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9056,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9052\/revisions\/9056"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9052"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9052"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9052"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}