[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":11},["ShallowReactive",2],{"blog-post-dfc-issue-31":3},{"_type":4,"body":5,"bodyHtml":6,"excerpt":5,"featuredImage":5,"publishedAt":7,"slug":8,"tags":9,"title":10},"blogPost",null,"Hee hee... this week \u003Ca href=\"http://www.thedfc.co.uk/issues/32/vern-and-lettuce/\">Vern and Lettuce\u003C/a> are busy torturing the moles on Primrose Hill. Or somewhere thereabouts in the Pickle Rye parallel London universe.\\r\n\\r\nI'm still grinning at the inept fish and cow-head ninjas in \u003Ca href=\"http://www.thedfc.co.uk/issues/32/fishheadsteve/\">Fish Head Steve\u003C/a> by \u003Cb>Jamie Smart\u003C/b> (\u003Ca href=\"http://foo5.livejournal.com/\" class=\"lj-user\">foo5\u003C/a>) and the pirate dress-up session in \u003Ca href=\"http://www.thedfc.co.uk/issues/32/super-animal-adventure-squad/\">Super Animal Adventure Squad\u003C/a> by \u003Cb>James Turner\u003C/b> (\u003Ca href=\"http://eruditebaboon.livejournal.com/\" class=\"lj-user\">eruditebaboon\u003C/a>). \\r\n\\r\nWe get the second installment of the beautifully rendered \u003Ca href=\"http://www.thedfc.co.uk/issues/32/frontier/\">Frontier\u003C/a> by \u003Cb>Jason Cobley\u003C/b> and \u003Cb>Andrew Wildman\u003C/b> (with its own \u003Ca href=\"http://www.weirdwildwest.com/\">lovely website\u003C/a>). And \u003Ca href=\"http://www.thedfc.co.uk/issues/32/mezolith/\">Mezolith\u003C/a> never fails to surprise me; it's not drawn in a style I normally like, but \u003Cb>Adam Brockbank\u003C/b> somehow totally manages to suck me in to both the story and the remarkable artwork. And I'm just dipping in, there's lots more going on that's sooo good! Simone Lia's naughty food items, Dave Shelton's volcanic sweets, the Woodrow milkshake machine with more lush artwork, the Etherington evil twins going nuts as always...\\r\n\\r\n\u003Ca href=\"http://www.thedfc.co.uk\">Go subscribe to the DFC if you haven't already\u003C/a>, crunchy credit be damned!\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/dfc32-a6ea91604a.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\nAnd why, oh why, did I ever give that sheep a tuba? Tubas are so annoying to draw! (... Or a sousaphone, I should say, but 'sousaphone' doesn't fit so well into a speech bubble.) Vern could have taken up a pert little piccolo, but no... I like to make life hard for myself.\\r\n\\r\nOh hey, and some \u003Ca href=\"http://vivianeschwarz.blogspot.com/2009/01/make-monkey.html\">fab drawn instructions for how to make a sock monkey\u003C/a> by \u003Cb>Vivian Schwarz\u003C/b>, yessiree.","2009-01-09T15:06:00.000Z","dfc-issue-31",[],"DFC issue 31!",1776628726581]