{"id":9924,"date":"2010-04-23T19:45:15","date_gmt":"2010-04-24T00:45:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/?p=9924"},"modified":"2010-03-29T16:45:17","modified_gmt":"2010-03-29T21:45:17","slug":"hart-tom-the-most-powerful-gate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/?p=9924","title":{"rendered":"Hart, Tom &#8211; The Most Powerful Gate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tomhart.net\/\" target=\"_blank\">Website<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/mostpowerfulgate1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"mostpowerfulgate1\" src=\"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/mostpowerfulgate1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"324\" height=\"507\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>The Most Powerful Gate<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I wonder how many 24 hour comics Tom did back in the day?\u00c2\u00a0 This is another one (from 6\/24\/95), and all of the comics I&#8217;ve seen from him with this format seem to be of the 24 hour variety.\u00c2\u00a0 As usual, that means a slight dip in the quality of the art, but that doesn&#8217;t necessarily translate to the quality of the story, and Tom does know a trick or two to speed up the process (like drawing some of the action in the dark).\u00c2\u00a0 This one is the story of a man and his monkey and another man on an island.\u00c2\u00a0 The man on the island spends most of the issue saying (seemingly) random things, and the monkey ends up sick from too many bananas.\u00c2\u00a0 There&#8217;s eventually a convergence of sorts, but the ending is highly open to interpretation and, even though this is 15 (!) years old, my hesitance to use any sort of spoilers still remains.\u00c2\u00a0 Hey, who knows, maybe Tom or some publishing company will wise up and put a bunch of these old minis back in print one of these days.\u00c2\u00a0 I will say that compared to some of his other minis this one didn&#8217;t do as much for me, which is sort of like saying that it would suck for somebody to hand you $100 after that same person had spent the past few months handing you $1000 every day.\u00c2\u00a0 Still worth a look, and seeing as how Fantagraphics just put out a collection of some of the best small press comics from the 80&#8217;s, would it really be a terrible thing to do the same thing for the best minis from the 90&#8217;s?\u00c2\u00a0 It&#8217;s pretty much impossible to find minis from either era, after all&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/mostpowerfulgate2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"mostpowerfulgate2\" src=\"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/mostpowerfulgate2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"416\" height=\"647\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Website\u00c2\u00a0 The Most Powerful Gate I wonder how many 24 hour comics Tom did back in the day?\u00c2\u00a0 This is another one (from 6\/24\/95), and all of the comics I&#8217;ve seen from him with this format seem to be of the 24 hour variety.\u00c2\u00a0 As usual, that means a slight dip in the quality of [&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":[469,2598],"class_list":["post-9924","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews","tag-the-most-powerful-gate","tag-tom-hart"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9924","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=9924"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9924\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9930,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9924\/revisions\/9930"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9924"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9924"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9924"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}