{"id":9147,"date":"2010-04-23T04:39:54","date_gmt":"2010-04-23T09:39:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/?p=9147"},"modified":"2013-04-11T11:57:54","modified_gmt":"2013-04-11T16:57:54","slug":"davidson-joe-robot-bildungsroman-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/?p=9147","title":{"rendered":"Davidson, Joe &#8211; Robot Bildungsroman #2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/robotbildungsroman.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Website<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/bildungsroman21.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"bildungsroman21\" alt=\"bildungsroman21\" src=\"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/bildungsroman21.jpg\" width=\"391\" height=\"615\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Robot Bildungsroman #2<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The comic with the catchy title is back!\u00a0 Seriously, I&#8217;m sure some people have skipped this if they&#8217;ve seen it at the store purely due to that clunky title, which would be a shame, as they&#8217;d only be hurting themselves.\u00a0 Well, and Joe, who I&#8217;m sure would like to at least make a few dollars on this.\u00a0 In this issue we get a solid recap of the last issue (hoorah!), see a bit more of the men behind the robots, and get a showdown between the cops and the gang from the last issue, which doesn&#8217;t seem to end well for anyone involved.\u00a0 Marci was a bit scarce in this issue, but we do see her getting a &#8220;routine&#8221; check-up and seemingly forgetting about it once she gets to school, although she is left with the sense that something is wrong.\u00a0 There&#8217;s also a short story at the end of the book that deals with a bit more of the culture involved in having robots being readily available all the time, as this tells the tale of&#8230; well, you can see it for yourself on the sample page.\u00a0 I probably should have used one of his splashier pages (as this issue really looks great), but I couldn&#8217;t resist that description.\u00a0 Anyway, the humanoids don&#8217;t exactly work as advertised, but one boy decides to keep the defective creature with him anyway.\u00a0 It&#8217;s another solid issue and again, I have to point out that this has all the makings of a really great series.\u00a0 Assuming you like smart science fiction, that is&#8230;\u00a0 $3<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/bildungsroman22.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"bildungsroman22\" alt=\"bildungsroman22\" src=\"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/bildungsroman22.jpg\" width=\"472\" height=\"740\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Website Robot Bildungsroman #2 The comic with the catchy title is back!\u00a0 Seriously, I&#8217;m sure some people have skipped this if they&#8217;ve seen it at the store purely due to that clunky title, which would be a shame, as they&#8217;d only be hurting themselves.\u00a0 Well, and Joe, who I&#8217;m sure would like to at least [&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":[2671,946],"class_list":["post-9147","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews","tag-joe-davidson","tag-robot-bildungsroman"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9147","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=9147"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9147\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9150,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9147\/revisions\/9150"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}