{"id":9676,"date":"2010-04-23T14:57:31","date_gmt":"2010-04-23T19:57:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/?p=9676"},"modified":"2010-03-28T15:15:33","modified_gmt":"2010-03-28T20:15:33","slug":"galey-jamie-dee-pillow-talk-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/?p=9676","title":{"rendered":"Galey, Jamie Dee &#8211; Pillow Talk #1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.iamjamie.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Website<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/pillowtalk1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"pillowtalk1\" src=\"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/pillowtalk1.jpg\" alt=\"pillowtalk1\" width=\"246\" height=\"326\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Pillow Talk #1<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Depending on your perspective, this comic is nothing like what you&#8217;re  picturing.\u00c2\u00a0 If you&#8217;re just going with the cover image, you probably  have it more or less right.\u00c2\u00a0 This is the story of a pillow who notices a  bird in a tree and decides that they should be friends.\u00c2\u00a0 He climbs the  tree (pillows climb trees in a shimmying motion, if you were curious)  but the bird flies away.\u00c2\u00a0 The pillow is sad, but doesn&#8217;t have much time  to dwell on it as he gets caught up in a broken tree branch and attacked  by a murder of crows, and boy you never get a chance to use that term  in casual conversation, do you?\u00c2\u00a0 The bird reconsiders when he hears the  pillow calling for help (as the crows have carried him off and are  picking him apart), and a monkey notices all the soft stuffing falling  from the sky and tries to eat it.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 There&#8217;s also a mysterious vine-like  figure who talks to the severely damaged pillow where he lands and some  reluctant assistance from the monkey, but I&#8217;ve given away too much  already.\u00c2\u00a0 The book is a pile of fun and that&#8217;s what&#8217;s important.\u00c2\u00a0 The  only problem is that the story comes to a screeching halt because it&#8217;s  the first of a projected five issues, but I can&#8217;t find anything on his  website (which is amazing, by the way) that indicates if there was ever a  second issue, and this did come out way back in the dark ages of  2004.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 I want to see what happens to the pillow, dammit!\u00c2\u00a0 If this is  the whole story it&#8217;s a fun but maddeningly incomplete story.\u00c2\u00a0 If there  are more issues then I recommend it unreservedly.\u00c2\u00a0 And I don&#8217;t usually  plug upcoming projects for creators, but Jamie is working on a Batman  versus Godzilla comic that has the potential to be one of the best  things in the world.\u00c2\u00a0 He only has a half dozen pages or so up at his  website now, but it&#8217;s something I&#8217;ll be keeping an eye on.\u00c2\u00a0 No price,  but let&#8217;s call it $2.<\/p>\n<p><a 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