{"id":9744,"date":"2010-04-23T16:15:46","date_gmt":"2010-04-23T21:15:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/?p=9744"},"modified":"2010-06-23T15:27:38","modified_gmt":"2010-06-23T20:27:38","slug":"gonzalez-rickey-victims-at-the-end-of-the-world-free-preview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/?p=9744","title":{"rendered":"Gonzales, Rickey &#8211; Victims at the End of the World: Free Preview"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pretentiouscomics.com\/\">Website<\/a><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/images\/victims1.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" hspace=\"0\" align=\"bottom\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Victims At The End Of The World: Free Preview<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>God bless the free previews, I wish more people did these things. All Rickey had at SPACE this year was a graphic novel (if I&#8217;m remembering correctly, which I&#8217;m probably not) and this, so all of us poor people can still check out his stuff without having to spend a bunch. Actually, looking at his website I can see that the graphic novel is only $6, so apparently I have no excuse at all. So how about that comic? It&#8217;s the story of a bunch of dolls who have been thrown away and come back in their own world, similar to ours but not exactly the same. This short preview deals with Algernon, a suicidal furry doll who helps his friends at the expense of his own well being. In other words, he&#8217;s a pushover. A friend, Bartleby, comes into Algernon&#8217;s house right as he is about to kill himself and asks for help with a project. Most of the story is in the head of Algernon and there are no word bubbles to be seen, which is a welcome change. It&#8217;s almost impossible to criticize a comic for being momentarily pretentious when the publishing company is called Pretentious Comics, so I&#8217;ll leave that alone. It&#8217;s an intriguing peek into what may be a great graphic novel, or what may be a whiny, long-winded piece of crap, although that second option would really surprise me from what I saw here. My only problem here is with the art, which is simplistic to a fault, as the characters seem to live against a flat gray background. It&#8217;s the kind of thing that may grow on you or not, and as always a trip around that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pretentiouscomics.com\/default.html\">website<\/a> would probably clear a lot of things up for anybody who is curious.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/images\/victims2.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" hspace=\"0\" align=\"bottom\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Website Victims At The End Of The World: Free Preview God bless the free previews, I wish more people did these things. All Rickey had at SPACE this year was a graphic novel (if I&#8217;m remembering correctly, which I&#8217;m probably not) and this, so all of us poor people can still check out his stuff [&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":[4196,1173],"class_list":["post-9744","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews","tag-rickey-gonzales","tag-victims-at-the-end-of-the-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9744","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=9744"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9744\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15453,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9744\/revisions\/15453"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9744"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9744"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9744"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}