{"id":19868,"date":"2010-02-06T14:47:06","date_gmt":"2010-02-06T20:47:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/?wpsc-product=the-horrifically-complete-non-winner-by-kelli-nelson"},"modified":"2010-02-06T14:47:06","modified_gmt":"2010-02-06T20:47:06","slug":"the-horrifically-complete-non-winner-by-kelli-nelson","status":"publish","type":"wpsc-product","link":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/?wpsc-product=the-horrifically-complete-non-winner-by-kelli-nelson","title":{"rendered":"The Horrifically Complete Non-Winner by Kelli Nelson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here it is, the perfect book for anybody who has ever enjoyed a good journal comic. Well, almost anybody, as I guess if you hated Kelli\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s work for some reason this wouldn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t be for you, but what\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s not to like here? This is the complete (as that cover may suggest) collection of her Non-Winner strip, done from 2001 through 2005. I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122d never seen plenty of these, as she did most of these online, and it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s taken me weeks to get through the whole thing, as I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve been picking it up and reading bits of it at a time. If you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve ever read a journal comic and thought \u00e2\u20ac\u0153what the hell were they thinking with this one?\u00e2\u20ac\u009d or \u00e2\u20ac\u0153this week\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s strip looks like a complete waste of time\u00e2\u20ac\u009d, well, Kelli is kind\/neurotic enough provide commentary for every single one of these, going into details about her fractured family life and other personal details. At times the quality of the strips aren\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t the best, as these were taken from her computer and some of these were designed with color or odd little tricks, but it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s only noticeable on a very few of these. Topics in here include pretty much everything in Kelli\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s life for those 5 years: family, married life, video games, comic conventions, dealing with publishers, hating (then eventually loving) Joss Whedon, and just about everything else you could think of. As for the commentary, I thought it would get on my nerves, but it ended up being completely fascinating. She adds all sorts of tidbits to everything, taking full responsibility when the strips sucked (mostly the \u00e2\u20ac\u0153throwaway\u00e2\u20ac\u009d type strips that she had to do while under deadline for something else) and adding relevant information to everything, including the awkward fact that her family did read her strip although she really, really wished they wouldn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t. For anybody who has ever wondered exactly what goes into making a journal strip, this is the perfect book for you. Hell, even if you aren\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t even a little bit curious, you can still just ignore the commentary and enjoy the strips. It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a thoroughly enjoyable book, and it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a damned shame that she decided to (temporarily?) give these up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"template":"","meta":{"_wpsc_stock":"3","_wpsc_price":"13","_wpsc_special_price":"13","_wpsc_sku":"","footnotes":""},"product_tag":[],"wpsc_product_category":[4747,5707],"wpsc-variation":[],"class_list":["post-19868","wpsc-product","type-wpsc-product","status-publish","hentry","wpsc_product_category-comics","wpsc_product_category-kelli-nelson"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/wpsc-product\/19868","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\/19868\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"product_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fproduct_tag&post=19868"},{"taxonomy":"wpsc_product_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fwpsc_product_category&post=19868"},{"taxonomy":"wpsc-variation","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fwpsc-variation&post=19868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}