{"id":9711,"date":"2010-04-23T15:36:06","date_gmt":"2010-04-23T20:36:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/?p=9711"},"modified":"2010-03-29T11:14:59","modified_gmt":"2010-03-29T16:14:59","slug":"gennis-emi-spaz-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/?p=9711","title":{"rendered":"Gennis, Emi &#8211; Spaz #1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/spazcomix.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Website<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/spaz11.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"spaz11\" src=\"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/spaz11.jpg\" alt=\"spaz11\" width=\"329\" height=\"468\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Spaz! #1<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;d like to start this review with something utterly irrelevant to  the comic.\u00c2\u00a0 As I know a good chunk of you read this at work when you  should be doing other things (and hey, if it wasn&#8217;t for my work blocking  me from accessing this site at work I&#8217;d probably be writing it there),  try saying Emi&#8217;s name out loud.\u00c2\u00a0 Go ahead, your coworkers already think  you&#8217;re crazy, especially if you&#8217;ve ever brought a comic in.\u00c2\u00a0 That&#8217;s just  a fun name.\u00c2\u00a0 Luckily she also makes a pretty great comic.\u00c2\u00a0 There are a  variety of stories in here, mostly to do with her time working at a  restaurant, some not so much.\u00c2\u00a0 There&#8217;s her getting hit on over by the  phone (in an incredibly creepy fashion) by a guy ordering wings, waking  up on a bad hair day and having very few options for what to do about  it, losing patience with profoundly stupid questions at work and a  gallery of the many creatures living at her apartment.\u00c2\u00a0 There&#8217;s also the  heart of the comic, a story about a guy who comes into her restaurant  on a regular basis, something he&#8217;s apparently been doing for decades.\u00c2\u00a0  It does a nice job of going into how hard it is NOT to speculate about  the personal life of anybody who is a bit odd and how unlikely that  speculation is to be anywhere near the truth.\u00c2\u00a0 Personally, I&#8217;m also  going with the theory of a tiny alien controlling his human body, but I  guess we&#8217;ll never know.\u00c2\u00a0 She also has regular updates to her website, a  four panel strip twice a week that&#8217;s half comedy and half therapy, but  she explains it far better than I could.\u00c2\u00a0 I also happened to check out  her site right when she mentioned that she found &#8220;an atrocious error&#8221; in  the second issue, which she was also nice enough to send along, so  it&#8217;ll be fun trying to find that next time around.\u00c2\u00a0 As for this, it&#8217;s  funny, the art is fantastic (especially if this is her first issue of  anything), and there aren&#8217;t enough minis like this around out there  these days.\u00c2\u00a0 Send her some money to reward good behavior!\u00c2\u00a0 $2<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/spaz12.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"spaz12\" src=\"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/spaz12.jpg\" alt=\"spaz12\" width=\"437\" height=\"623\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Website Spaz! 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