{"id":9367,"date":"2010-04-23T08:48:33","date_gmt":"2010-04-23T13:48:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/?p=9367"},"modified":"2010-03-27T14:15:04","modified_gmt":"2010-03-27T19:15:04","slug":"dwyer-brad-epic-tales-of-the-mundane-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/?p=9367","title":{"rendered":"Dwyer, Brad &#8211; Epic Tales of the Mundane #4"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.blackmarkercomics.com\/\">Website<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/mundane41.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Epic Tales of the Mundane #4<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>If I can put my cynical hat on here for a moment, web comics have been a tremendous boon to the mini comics artist. After all, if they haven&#8217;t put a book out for a few months (or, depending on who we&#8217;re talking about, a few years), it&#8217;s easy enough to take the internet content and cram it into a mini, right? Not that I&#8217;m taking Brad to task or anything, the guy already has 5 minis out (#5 will be up here in the near future). And it&#8217;s not that I&#8217;m saying it&#8217;s a bad thing, I often don&#8217;t dig around into the online content of the people I like, so the &#8220;web comix&#8221; books are usually new to me. Actually, I have no idea of the point I was trying to make there, but it&#8217;s best to leave all this rambling up to show the world how my brain &#8220;works&#8221;. This comic is, as indicated, mostly stuff Brad has made for his website. In his letter with the books he says he doesn&#8217;t think they work in this format, but I thought they were fine. Granted, I can&#8217;t remember seeing two panel comic strips before, and that&#8217;s mildly odd, but not a bad thing. It&#8217;s more of a diary strip type setup than anything, so instead of one or two mundane days over the course of a comic we&#8217;re treated to more like a month of mundane. Brad goes to shows, drinks, hangs out with his girlfriend, tries to work up the energy to go to work, and attends a literature class with a Trekkie. More than a few funny bits in here and the man keeps his books cheap ($1), so it&#8217;s definitely worth taking a look.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/mundane42.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Website Epic Tales of the Mundane #4 If I can put my cynical hat on here for a moment, web comics have been a tremendous boon to the mini comics artist. After all, if they haven&#8217;t put a book out for a few months (or, depending on who we&#8217;re talking about, a few years), it&#8217;s [&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":[2721,1021],"class_list":["post-9367","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews","tag-brad-dwyer","tag-epic-tales-of-the-mundane"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9367","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=9367"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9367\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9376,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9367\/revisions\/9376"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}