{"id":19285,"date":"2010-02-06T14:47:06","date_gmt":"2010-02-06T20:47:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/?wpsc-product=ruffians-6-by-brian-canini"},"modified":"2010-02-06T14:47:06","modified_gmt":"2010-02-06T20:47:06","slug":"ruffians-6-by-brian-canini","status":"publish","type":"wpsc-product","link":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/?wpsc-product=ruffians-6-by-brian-canini","title":{"rendered":"Ruffians #6 by Brian Canini"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Aw, dammit! I was having such a good time with this series, really getting into the characters and wondering where this whole thing was heading. Then Brian had to go and put himself in the comic. This has always struck me as a fairly ridiculous thing to do, especially in a case like this where it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a fictional comic. Sure, Dan Clowes or Chester Brown showing up in a story of theirs isn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t the worst thing in the world, at least in the autobio stuff. But this\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 blech. This issue starts off with Scar walking up to the front door of the home of Brian Canini. You may be thinking that we get all sorts of answers to the story here, or at least his presence moves the plot along. No and no. Brian does mention the origin of why Scar looks the way he does (he looks like a teddy bear Brian had as a child), but that\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s the extent of the useful information we are given here. Unless you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re curious about the life of Brian, as he does go into why he moved out of Ohio, which is fine if that had the slightest bit to do with the actual story. At least there\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a big old prison brawl in the last few pages (after Scar \u00e2\u20ac\u0153wakes up\u00e2\u20ac\u009d to find himself back there), but it can\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t save this issue. At the end of the issue you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re exactly where you were at the end of the last issue, and that\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a hard thing to ignore in an ongoing series like this. Maybe when all is said and done this will have some significance to the storyline and I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll be proven an idiot (not the first time), but for now I say again, blech. Oh, and don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t think this means I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve given up on this. Not by a long shot, it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s still a lot of fun and I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m still wondering where this is all headed. This issue by itself just didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t do a thing for me, that\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"template":"","meta":{"_wpsc_stock":"6","_wpsc_price":"1.5","_wpsc_special_price":"1.5","_wpsc_sku":"","footnotes":""},"product_tag":[],"wpsc_product_category":[5643,4747],"wpsc-variation":[],"class_list":["post-19285","wpsc-product","type-wpsc-product","status-publish","hentry","wpsc_product_category-brian-canini","wpsc_product_category-comics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/wpsc-product\/19285","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\/19285\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"product_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fproduct_tag&post=19285"},{"taxonomy":"wpsc_product_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fwpsc_product_category&post=19285"},{"taxonomy":"wpsc-variation","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fwpsc-variation&post=19285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}