{"id":9743,"date":"2010-04-23T16:12:45","date_gmt":"2010-04-23T21:12:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/?p=9743"},"modified":"2010-06-23T15:27:10","modified_gmt":"2010-06-23T20:27:10","slug":"gonzalez-rickey-squish","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/?p=9743","title":{"rendered":"Gonzales, Rickey &#8211; Squish"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pretentiouscomics.com\/\">Website<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/08\/squish1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"squish1\" src=\"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/08\/squish1.jpg\" alt=\"squish1\" width=\"247\" height=\"329\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Squish<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>One of these years I&#8217;m just going to get a graphic novel from Rickey  and be done with it.\u00c2\u00a0 Of course, that&#8217;s also assuming that I&#8217;m going to  make it to SPACE one of these years with a pile of money.\u00c2\u00a0 This mini has  a tiny original comic and then a preview (done in screenplay format) or  his latest book, The Death of Ginger Fierbusch.\u00c2\u00a0 The comic is the brief  story of a young woman who, while on the phone to her father, squishes a  bug.\u00c2\u00a0 After doing this she goes on about how it makes her feel bad to  kill bugs, how maybe some other higher being in the universe will decide  to squish her one of these days for no reason.\u00c2\u00a0 It&#8217;s gets a little  maudlin, her dad gives her a bit of a pep talk, and there&#8217;s a  delightfully awkward ending.\u00c2\u00a0 As for the free preview, the screenplay  format maybe wasn&#8217;t the best way to show the new book, but if he didn&#8217;t  have any actual preview pages done it&#8217;s better than nothing.\u00c2\u00a0 It&#8217;s the  story of the two best friends of Ginger Fierbusch, a local drag queen  and podcasting sensation (do those exist?), trying to make sense of her  death.\u00c2\u00a0 It has potential, clearly, but there really wasn&#8217;t enough here  to pass any judgement one way or the other.\u00c2\u00a0 Next year at SPACE I&#8217;ll  pick it up and see for myself, until then who knows?\u00c2\u00a0 Check out his  other books first (as there&#8217;s much more to them), but this is still  worth picking up for his short comic if you see him at a con.\u00c2\u00a0 $1<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/08\/squish2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"squish2\" src=\"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/08\/squish2.jpg\" alt=\"squish2\" width=\"349\" height=\"391\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Website Squish One of these years I&#8217;m just going to get a graphic novel from Rickey and be done with it.\u00c2\u00a0 Of course, that&#8217;s also assuming that I&#8217;m going to make it to SPACE one of these years with a pile of money.\u00c2\u00a0 This mini has a tiny original comic and then a preview (done [&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":[4196,1172],"class_list":["post-9743","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews","tag-rickey-gonzales","tag-squish"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9743","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=9743"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9743\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15452,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9743\/revisions\/15452"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}