{"id":19243,"date":"2010-02-06T14:47:06","date_gmt":"2010-02-06T20:47:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/?wpsc-product=in-anticipation-of-hugs-by-neil-brideau"},"modified":"2010-02-06T14:47:06","modified_gmt":"2010-02-06T20:47:06","slug":"in-anticipation-of-hugs-by-neil-brideau","status":"publish","type":"wpsc-product","link":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/?wpsc-product=in-anticipation-of-hugs-by-neil-brideau","title":{"rendered":"In Anticipation of Hugs by Neil Brideau"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ah, if only all minis with one panel strips were like this. I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve had my issues with the single panel format, but this is how it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s supposed to be done, and there\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s also the not insignificant fact that there are plenty of free samples up at Neil\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s website, so anybody reading my rambles can easily make their own informed decision. It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a simple idea but done to perfection: there\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a rotating cast of characters, centered around the sock monster also including a wise old skull, a inquisitive and slightly naive bug, a nasty and selfish\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 um, luchadore, a guy with a present embedded in his head\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 You know, they start getting surreal in a hurry, so I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll leave it up to the reader to discover the rest of them. These friends and not friends mostly sit around, ruminating about the universe or the unfairness of various aspects of the universe, then go on to the next panel. It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s funny, that lettering is downright hypnotic, and there\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s some serious inking going on. A lot of one panel strips rely on characters sitting mostly in a blank environment, but Neil clearly spends a solid chunk of time on each panel. This is well worth your time to seek out, proving once again that Short Pants has a damned near perfect track record in publishing quality comics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"template":"","meta":{"_wpsc_stock":"6","_wpsc_price":"4","_wpsc_special_price":"4","_wpsc_sku":"","footnotes":""},"product_tag":[],"wpsc_product_category":[4747,5737],"wpsc-variation":[],"class_list":["post-19243","wpsc-product","type-wpsc-product","status-publish","hentry","wpsc_product_category-comics","wpsc_product_category-neil-brideau"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/wpsc-product\/19243","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/wpsc-product"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/wpsc-product"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/wpsc-product\/19243\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"product_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fproduct_tag&post=19243"},{"taxonomy":"wpsc_product_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fwpsc_product_category&post=19243"},{"taxonomy":"wpsc-variation","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fwpsc-variation&post=19243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}