{"id":9662,"date":"2010-04-23T14:42:01","date_gmt":"2010-04-23T19:42:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/?p=9662"},"modified":"2010-03-28T14:43:11","modified_gmt":"2010-03-28T19:43:11","slug":"frost-sean-johnny-public-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/?p=9662","title":{"rendered":"Frost, Sean – Johnny Public #1"},"content":{"rendered":"

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If you’re curious about this comic, go ahead and read my review of their preview. Go ahead, I’ll wait. What you have here, on its face, is the story of a man trying to find the right word to finish a sentence in a novel he’s writing. He’s at a bar and gets advice from what appears to be a stranger, then that’s it for the comic, as it’s only six pages. That, by itself, would be a pretty stupid comic. Luckily for us there’s a panel by panel (mostly) synopsis of what was really going on there, and how the bar is inside the head of the main character. It’s a fascinating central concept and you really can pick this apart panel by panel, at least you can once you know what’s going on. And that’s a fundamental problem I have with this (and other currently poor people are probably going to have): $1.50 per every six pages of actual story is ridiculous. The cover looks great, don’t get me wrong, and I saw them all lined up at SPACE and they look great together. The way to go with this series, a lot more than most I think, is to get them all in a graphic novel and go from there. There’s just no way to get a good idea of the story in these tiny volumes. I’m intrigued by what I’ve seen and there just might be a really great story here, so don’t think that I’m blasting this comic for that reason. Anyway, there’s contact info up there, this is $1.50, and I think you could do a lot worse than get a collection of these stories, but one by one I just don’t think they’re worth it…<\/p>\n

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