{"id":9186,"date":"2010-04-23T05:21:04","date_gmt":"2010-04-23T10:21:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/?p=9186"},"modified":"2010-03-27T11:42:42","modified_gmt":"2010-03-27T16:42:42","slug":"davis-phonzie-left-handed-sophie-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/?p=9186","title":{"rendered":"Davis, Phonzie – Left Handed Sophie #1"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Left Handed Sophie #1<\/strong><\/p>\n

Well that was quite a gap between comics for this man on this website.\u00c2\u00a0 It looks like he’s kept it up, as the art shows some serious improvement (and it wasn’t bad to begin with), it just looks like I missed the stuff in between.\u00c2\u00a0 This is the first issue in a series (regular comic book size) dealing with, well, Sophie.\u00c2\u00a0 That’s the part of the issue that works well, and luckily it’s most of the issue.\u00c2\u00a0 The trouble is that Phonzie is building a saga, so random characters show up with little to no introduction and just start talking about their issues.\u00c2\u00a0 Really, in some cases I got more information out of checking out the cover again to see who some people were than I did from their couple of pages in the comic.\u00c2\u00a0 Actually, the cover gives a good chunk of her story away, as under the title it says “the shocking saga of a young albino woman, corrupted by drug trafficking and the occult”.\u00c2\u00a0 The trouble is that this issue doesn’t get into any of that stuff, so I guess now we know exactly where this is headed.\u00c2\u00a0 This issue starts off with Sophie (at age 13) getting pushed around at school and standing up for herself.\u00c2\u00a0 This goes directly into a scene with Spree (a mystery man from the cover) getting a blowjob, followed by the reverend and his crew, with very little idea of how it all fits into the big picture.\u00c2\u00a0 This flows into a black-eyed Sophie getting adopted by a family of white hippies, and things seem to be looking up as she also gets a new sister out of the bargain.\u00c2\u00a0 Now we learn more about Pipp, who may or may not be the biological sister of Sophie, as this flows right into Sophie learning more about her new sister.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 This goes into a local picnic, and we learn that Sophie’s new parents were just looking for someone “ethnic” to adopt and settled for Sophie instead of getting a kid from overseas.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 Now it turns out that Pipp is actually a young boy, as he gets chewed out for saying that he only likes white women.\u00c2\u00a0 From here we get to meet even more new people, Sophie’s new dad starts to introduce her to voodoo and we see why Sophie’s biological mom gave her up.\u00c2\u00a0 Visually, this comic is striking, as Phonzie uses every bit of the page and has some of the most visually inventive use of word balloons and panel structure (when he uses anything approaching a traditional panel structure) that I’ve ever seen.\u00c2\u00a0 As this is the first issue in a projected saga, I’m guessing that this cast of characters will become a lot clearer as time goes on.\u00c2\u00a0 Right now I have very little idea of what’s going on outside of Sophie’s life, but I’m guessing future issues will have some sort of character synopses to keep all this people in some sort of order.\u00c2\u00a0 It’s a hefty thing for only $3, and it looks like it’s off to a promising (if occasionally baffling) start.<\/p>\n

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Website Left Handed Sophie #1 Well that was quite a gap between comics for this man on this website.\u00c2\u00a0 It looks like he’s kept it up, as the art shows some serious improvement (and it wasn’t bad to begin with), it just looks like I missed the stuff in between.\u00c2\u00a0 This is the first issue […]<\/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":[953,2674],"class_list":["post-9186","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews","tag-left-handed-sophie","tag-phonzie-davis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9186","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=9186"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9186\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9188,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9186\/revisions\/9188"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}