{"id":9963,"date":"2010-04-23T20:42:55","date_gmt":"2010-04-24T01:42:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/?p=9963"},"modified":"2010-03-29T17:11:23","modified_gmt":"2010-03-29T22:11:23","slug":"havert-nik-act-of-contrition-with-craig-deboard-wes-sweetser","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/?p=9963","title":{"rendered":"Havert, Nik &#8211; Act of Contrition (with Craig DeBoard &#038; Wes Sweetser)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.picklepress.net\/\" target=\"_blank\">Website<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/images\/actof1.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" hspace=\"0\" align=\"bottom\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Act of Contrition (with Craig DeBoard &amp; Wes Sweetser)<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/?page_id=3417&amp;category=2&amp;product_id=151\" target=\"_blank\">Now Available!<\/a> $5<\/p>\n<p>The Pickle Press empire keeps wandering off in different directions, and that&#8217;s fine with me. This time out Nik has the story of a mystery involving a wide cast of characters, with the only thing that they seem to have in common being the local priest. The main thing needed to keep a story like this entertaining is suspense, and it did take about half of the comic for me to figure out for sure where this was headed. Take that as a measuring stick, I suppose. If you feel that you&#8217;re required to be fooled until the end of the book, you&#8217;ll go away disappointed. Or maybe I&#8217;m just the smartest man alive, who knows? The story begins with a man in a confessional, always a good way to go, telling a priest that he&#8217;s killed someone. The rest of the book is a flashback to the actual story, starting with a dead young woman, a crazy old woman who sees people in her bushes, a boyfriend who may or may not have had anything to do with the young woman&#8217;s death, and a priest who&#8217;s dealt with them all. Great dialogue pretty much the whole way through here, and those fat black shadows were perfect for the theme. Worth a look if you like the murder mystery\/suspense type of stories. $5<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/images\/actof2.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" hspace=\"0\" align=\"bottom\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Website Act of Contrition (with Craig DeBoard &amp; Wes Sweetser) Now Available! $5 The Pickle Press empire keeps wandering off in different directions, and that&#8217;s fine with me. This time out Nik has the story of a mystery involving a wide cast of characters, with the only thing that they seem to have in common [&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":[481,2883,2373,2882],"class_list":["post-9963","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews","tag-act-of-contrition","tag-craig-deboard","tag-nik-havert","tag-wes-sweetser"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9963","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=9963"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9963\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9970,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9963\/revisions\/9970"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9963"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}