{"id":736,"date":"2006-11-01T07:00:47","date_gmt":"2006-11-01T12:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=736"},"modified":"2006-11-01T06:58:43","modified_gmt":"2006-11-01T11:58:43","slug":"concerned-rip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=736","title":{"rendered":"Concerned, RIP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Concered, the Half-Life 2 webcomic, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hlcomic.com\/index.php?date=2006-10-31\">has ended<\/a>.  It ran twice weekly for a year and a half, and managed to keep a good pace and a steady supply of laughs.  Christopher Livingston did an outstanding job.  This was a fantastic comic and I&#8217;m sorry to see it end. <\/p>\n<p>I think my favorite gag was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hlcomic.com\/index.php?date=2005-05-07\">this one<\/a>, which had a very obscure movie quote in it.  Given that most readers are probably in their 20&#8217;s, and that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0091042\/\">Ferris Bueller&#8217;s Day Off<\/a> came out in 1986, I wonder how many people even got the joke.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s brave.  I&#8217;d probably chicken out of a gag like that, but it worked and it made me laugh.  <\/p>\n<p>Now that the run is over I discovered that there are notes from the author at the bottom of each comic.  You have to click a link to see them, and my brain just filtered it out along with the rest of the banner ad noise at the bottom of the page.  Now that I&#8217;ve noticed I&#8217;m going through again and reading these comments.  It&#8217;s pretty interesting, as I can see him learning his craft as he goes.<\/p>\n<p>Great work.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Concered, the Half-Life 2 webcomic, has ended. It ran twice weekly for a year and a half, and managed to keep a good pace and a steady supply of laughs. Christopher Livingston did an outstanding job. This was a fantastic comic and I&#8217;m sorry to see it end. I think my favorite gag was this [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-736","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nerd-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/736","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=736"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/736\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=736"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=736"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=736"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}