{"id":9143,"date":"2010-04-23T04:30:42","date_gmt":"2010-04-23T09:30:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/?p=9143"},"modified":"2010-03-27T11:17:34","modified_gmt":"2010-03-27T16:17:34","slug":"darcy-dame-meatcake-9","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/?p=9143","title":{"rendered":"Darcy, Dame &#8211; Meatcake #9"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.damedarcy.com\">Website<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/images\/meatcake91.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" width=\"294\" height=\"453\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/fantagraphics.com\/artist\/darcy\/darcy.html\">Meatcake #9<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Have you ever gone through some old comics, come across something you loved back when you got it and are surprised to see that that&#8217;s the only issue you bought? Well, join the club. I remember getting this one for the Alan Moore story, but it&#8217;s probably the weakest thing in the issue, and it&#8217;s a pretty damned good story. I know I didn&#8217;t see this one on the shelves ever, but I certainly sought out stuff that was harder to find than this. Whatever, put it right up there towards the top of the list of stuff I&#8217;ll get as soon as humanly possible. So, what about the comic? Well, the story written by Alan Moore is all about Wellington, a little orphaned girl, and what happens throughout her life. He fits with Dame better than anybody, except maybe Eddie Campbell. Then there&#8217;s a story about two friends who rob a couple of graves for cool party dresses and the consequences of their actions. Throw in a couple of shorties and a ballad from 1600&#8217;s England and you have one great comic. I guess I can&#8217;t say for sure that all of her stuff is this good, but I&#8217;ve always liked her work in anthologies and I could honestly lose myself in her art even if she couldn&#8217;t write herself out of a paper bag. Not sure how she&#8217;d find herself in a paper bag, exactly, but she doesn&#8217;t have to worry about it as she&#8217;s much too good of a writer to ever find herself in that predicament. One of the things that amazes me when people write me is that they spend so much time on this site when I link the websites of everybody that I can. Now <em>those<\/em> are some pages. Here&#8217;s the Dame Darcy <a href=\"http:\/\/www.damedarcy.com\/\">page<\/a>, and good luck not getting lost there for a while. Pardon the first scan, but it&#8217;s such an incredible page that I figured it was worth the eye strain.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/images\/meatcake92.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" width=\"535\" height=\"798\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Website Meatcake #9 Have you ever gone through some old comics, come across something you loved back when you got it and are surprised to see that that&#8217;s the only issue you bought? Well, join the club. I remember getting this one for the Alan Moore story, but it&#8217;s probably the weakest thing in 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":[2670,945],"class_list":["post-9143","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews","tag-dame-darcy","tag-meatcake"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9143","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=9143"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9143\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9144,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9143\/revisions\/9144"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}