{"id":19967,"date":"2010-02-06T14:47:06","date_gmt":"2010-02-06T20:47:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/?wpsc-product=plastic-farm-7-by-rafer-roberts"},"modified":"2010-02-06T14:47:06","modified_gmt":"2010-02-06T20:47:06","slug":"plastic-farm-7-by-rafer-roberts","status":"publish","type":"wpsc-product","link":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/?wpsc-product=plastic-farm-7-by-rafer-roberts","title":{"rendered":"Plastic Farm #7 by Rafer Roberts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What the hell? Sorry, I know that these are only connected in the loosest of terms at this point, and obviously it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s all going to make sense when it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s done, but what the hell does this issue have to do with anything else? I know, I know, it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s probably just setting up characters who\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll play a major (or minor) role later on and it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s best to have patience. That\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s not much of a problem because the next issue has one of the more interesting characters, The Kamikaze Kid, featured pretty heavily. Still, one of these days Rafer is going to have to start tying some of these threads together, at least loosely, or I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m afraid he\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s going to start losing people. It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s an admirable thing he\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s doing here, setting everything up deliberately and carefully, I just hope he\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s not overestimating the patience of his audience. Not me, though, I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m pretty well hooked, barring some serious drop in quality. Oh yeah, the actual comic. I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m supposed to be talking about that. Well, there are two stories in here. The first one is about a man who can turn his belly button from an innie to an outie at will and his subsequent rise to fame and the inevitable crash. The second story is about a paid assassin who gets a little too close to her target and her problems with the whole thing. I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122d tell you more about how they relate to the rest of the larger story, but I honestly have no idea. Both entertaining stories in their own right though, with Jake Warrenfeltz pitching in on the first story and Rafer writing and drawing the second. This issue will probably make sense later, but it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s tough to recommend this story on an issue by issue basis. If you want to dig in (and you should, it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a fascinating story in a lot of ways so far) you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re better off buying issues in chunks than one at a time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"template":"","meta":{"_wpsc_stock":"3","_wpsc_price":"2.95","_wpsc_special_price":"2.95","_wpsc_sku":"","footnotes":""},"product_tag":[],"wpsc_product_category":[4747,5712],"wpsc-variation":[],"class_list":["post-19967","wpsc-product","type-wpsc-product","status-publish","hentry","wpsc_product_category-comics","wpsc_product_category-rafer-roberts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/wpsc-product\/19967","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\/19967\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19967"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"product_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fproduct_tag&post=19967"},{"taxonomy":"wpsc_product_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fwpsc_product_category&post=19967"},{"taxonomy":"wpsc-variation","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fwpsc-variation&post=19967"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}