{"id":2713,"date":"2019-10-17T23:49:09","date_gmt":"2019-10-18T03:49:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kirabug.com\/?p=2713"},"modified":"2019-10-17T23:50:38","modified_gmt":"2019-10-18T03:50:38","slug":"pop-culture-building-a-better-tomorrow-by-avoiding-today-by-dave-kellett","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kirabug.com\/wordpress\/2019\/10\/pop-culture-building-a-better-tomorrow-by-avoiding-today-by-dave-kellett\/","title":{"rendered":"Pop Culture: Building a Better Tomorrow by Avoiding Today by Dave Kellett"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Sheldon series of comics features a young boy who accidentally became a millionaire with a dot-com. He lives with his grandfather, a talking duck, a squeeing lizard, and a farty pug.<\/p>\n<p>He, like the author Dave Kellett, is a total nerd.<\/p>\n<p>We know they&#8217;re nerds because <a href=\"https:\/\/sheldonstore.com\/products\/new-pop-culture\">Pop Culture!<\/a> is 237 pages long and is wholly made up of comics about pop culture nerdery &#8212; as many as 3 per page. It contains sections like &#8220;Star Trek&#8221;, &#8220;Star Wars&#8221;, &#8220;Superheroes&#8221;, and &#8220;Nerdery of all types&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Now, as I am also a total nerd, I enjoyed every single bit of this book &#8212; but be forewarned, it is not like the standard Sheldon collections where you get story arc after story arc merging together. It is more like <a href=\"https:\/\/sheldonstore.com\/collections\/the-complete-sheldon-collection\/products\/pugs-unleashed\">Pugs: God&#8217;s Little Weirdos<\/a> in that it collects all of the comics on this particular topic and puts them together.<\/p>\n<p>So this book is light on the story arcs. (Pugs was, surprisingly, not as light.)<\/p>\n<p>But you&#8217;ll still laugh your tail off.<\/p>\n<p>And if you&#8217;re new to the comic, or just want some light humor without lots of plot, this is a great read.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Sheldon series of comics features a young boy who accidentally became a millionaire with a dot-com. He lives with his grandfather, a talking duck, a squeeing lizard, and a farty pug. He, like the author Dave Kellett, is a total nerd. We know they&#8217;re nerds because Pop Culture! is 237 pages long and is &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kirabug.com\/wordpress\/2019\/10\/pop-culture-building-a-better-tomorrow-by-avoiding-today-by-dave-kellett\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Pop Culture: Building a Better Tomorrow by Avoiding Today by Dave Kellett&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"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":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[11],"tags":[25,46,115,114],"class_list":["post-2713","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-impressions","tag-comics","tag-dave-kellett","tag-pop-culture","tag-sheldon"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pdUhYo-HL","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kirabug.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2713","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kirabug.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kirabug.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kirabug.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kirabug.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2713"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kirabug.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2713\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2714,"href":"https:\/\/kirabug.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2713\/revisions\/2714"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kirabug.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kirabug.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2713"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kirabug.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}