{"id":199,"date":"2007-09-09T21:38:17","date_gmt":"2007-09-09T11:38:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/batrock.net\/?p=199"},"modified":"2007-09-09T21:38:17","modified_gmt":"2007-09-09T11:38:17","slug":"smell-the-glove-fear-the-boot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/batrock.net\/?p=199","title":{"rendered":"<s>Smell the Glove<\/s> Fear the Boot!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So you may recall Shamus&#8217; gambit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?cat=14\">DM of the Rings<\/a>. Well, Shamus is now <i>owned<\/I> by the denizens of the internet, and has followed it with a legitimately drawn comic, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.feartheboot.com\/comic\">Chainmail Bikini<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>The last year has left Shamus open to the darkest criticisms known to man, finding internet popularity, and already they&#8217;re trying to tear strips off of him. What we&#8217;ve got so far is writing comparable to DM of the Rings, which is not surprising because it&#8217;s been confirmed that they&#8217;re the same characters in the D&#038;D group, drawings, and different fonts used for each character. While this makes sense to differentiate the characters from each other in the fantasy segments, I think that legibility may be a bit of a problem for Josh and Marcus.<\/p>\n<p>Otherwise, I salute Shamus for having the ability to get a distinctive voice out there. As someone presently struggling to find my own voice, Beyonce style (if you don&#8217;t &#8230; if you won&#8217;t &#8230; listeeeeeeen), it&#8217;s something that I definitely admire. Some day, perhaps you&#8217;ll even want to read Batrock.net, gentle readers! <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So you may recall Shamus&#8217; gambit DM of the Rings. Well, Shamus is now owned by the denizens of the internet, and has followed it with a legitimately drawn comic, Chainmail Bikini. The last year has left Shamus open to the darkest criticisms known to man, finding internet popularity, and already they&#8217;re trying to tear strips off of him. What we&#8217;ve got so far is writing comparable to DM of the Rings, which is not surprising because it&#8217;s been confirmed that they&#8217;re the same characters in the D&#038;D group, drawings, and different fonts used for each character. While this makes <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-199","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-internets","category-links"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1HLZ6-3d","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/batrock.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/batrock.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/batrock.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/batrock.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/batrock.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=199"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/batrock.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/batrock.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/batrock.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/batrock.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}